We performed a comparison between IBM Workload Automation and Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: IBM Workload Automation provides client-driven feature development, multi-node job triggering, and easy batch application tracking. Redwood Software stands out with its powerful job definition capabilities, simplified job management, error-handling, and integration with multiple systems.
The review highlights areas where IBM Workload Automation can improve, such as performance, navigation, job dependencies, daily schedule refreshes, stability, reporting visibility, and integration with new technologies. Redwood can enhance its reporting features, fix minor issues, improve monitoring and alert service, add role-based access, enhance metrics explorer, incorporate machine learning and AI capabilities, and provide more robust reporting and analytics capabilities.
Service and Support: Customers have praised IBM Workload Automation's technical support, particularly their lab advocacy program for code support. However, some challenges exist in pinpointing the origin of specific issues. Redwood has generally received positive feedback regarding their support, although there is room for improvement.
Ease of Deployment: IBM Workload Automation's initial setup can be difficult for those who are not familiar with IBM tools or application development. However, with help from an IBM engineer or vendor, the process becomes relatively easy. The initial setup for Redwood Software is considered complex and time-consuming due to the large number of jobs and the complexity of the existing system.
Pricing: IBM Workload Automation's setup cost is determined by the customer's contract and can differ based on the number of agents installed. Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition has a pricing model that is based on the number of job executions. Users appreciate Redwood's pricing as it is cost-effective and beneficial for trying out new platforms. Furthermore, Redwood's setup cost and pricing are notably lower compared to competitors such as Control-M and UC4.
ROI: It is difficult to assess the ROI of IBM Workload Automation. However, Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition has demonstrated positive outcomes with a 10% return on investment.
Comparison Results: IBM Workload Automation is the preferred product compared to Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition. Users appreciate IBM's ability to incorporate requested features based on client voting, as well as its capability to trigger jobs in multiple nodes and pre-schedule them.
"The project we worked on involved the running of nearly 24,000 job instances in a single day, so I would say that the solution is stable."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The whole product is valuable because it is a tool for batch automation."
"The most important feature is the creation of folders. It's a really great feature because you can organize the process with naming conventions."
"The support from Cisco is very good. I was with them as a company for 40 years"
"Technical support from IBM is very good."
"Jobs can be triggered in multiple nodes."
"Jobs can be triggered in multiple nodes."
"In Redwood Automation, we can easily fetch the daily reports from the system as per the client's requirement and track the status of every job which is running, aborted, or canceled."
"It is very easy and easy to use, and minimal supervision is required to run it."
"Error handling and the recovery feature ensure that my job processes are not stopped if any error occurs."
"It conjures simplicity from the depths of complexity, effortlessly shouldering burdensome workloads."
"With automation in place, employees can focus on more strategic tasks that require human expertise, increasing overall productivity."
"Redwood is more flexible and we can schedule the tasks based on different time zones."
"This program works with every browser."
"Redwood manages all complex job workflow processes."
"The configuration of IBM Workload Automation has some challenges. We have a difficult time customizing it, but it is similar to other solutions."
"Scalability-wise, it can be a little bit challenging."
"There should be more custom documentation, specifically around Java APIs. There should also be more training. In terms of features, we are currently using only 50% of its features. We don't use all features that are available, but there is always room for improvement in all of the tools."
"It is missing some features and can improve in areas where the competition is somewhat better like linking job dependencies."
"The performance of the previous versions could be better."
"Slow down on the releases a bit. I fully understand that IWA functionality is increasing at an amazing rate, but trying to keep up with the upgrades is rough."
"This solution does have bugs and could be improved in this regard. However, these bugs are resolved relatively quickly."
"The schedule refreshes daily and that's a challenge for us."
"Enhancing the user interface would make it more appealing to new users with limited technical knowledge."
"The only issue at first was that we had to manually delete or raise the event in order to run some of the events and wait for jobs, even if the file was kept at the correct AL11 position."
"Currently, our developers aren't able to access their own objects in the user acceptance testing server and production system server as they are assigned the developer access role, which is kind of a solid role, and no changes or additions can be made to it."
"Redwood RunMyJobs should add more good features."
"The job log has a size limit."
"It would be nice if Redwood RunMyJobs could work on different systems."
"Customer support should be enhanced so that we can automatically raise tickets and incidents in customer service."
"We'd like to see an integration with ServiceNow to raise the tickets/incidents in ServiceNow."
IBM Workload Automation is ranked 13th in Workload Automation with 28 reviews while Redwood RunMyJobs is ranked 3rd in Workload Automation with 30 reviews. IBM Workload Automation is rated 8.2, while Redwood RunMyJobs is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of IBM Workload Automation writes "With an easy setup phase in place, agent-based installation can be done in minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Redwood RunMyJobs writes "Simple to use, increases CPU speed, and reduces the cost of machine time". IBM Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, HCL Workload Automation and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, whereas Redwood RunMyJobs is most compared with Control-M, Stonebranch, Tidal by Redwood and AutoSys Workload Automation. See our IBM Workload Automation vs. Redwood RunMyJobs report.
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