Azure Batch vs. CA Workload Automation

Azure is specifically suited for businesses that work with customers that need to work with Microsoft software products. Any instances of Microsoft products or suites that require an environment test to set up would definitely benefit from this tool. As an IT support, it is relatively easy to support and use. Where this tool is not useful if a customer has no need for it.

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If batch jobs are heavily used then this product is highly recommended since it maintains dependencies between jobs, notifies if there are any failures, and puts the next batches on hold if previous dependent jobs fails.

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• Managing the users
• Having multiple environments
• Creating multiple groups

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• Workload can be scheduled across different Platforms.
• Support for Hadoop. Integration with Informatica Dataware house application.
• The latest version has a web interface which is very impressive.
• Low overheads from administration standpoint.

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• The user interface, in my opinion, might need further clarification.
• Any situation where a user's password has to be reset would benefit from this feature.
• Any accounts that were accidentally established more than once may be transferred over quickly and easily.

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• Even though the CA Workload Automation GUI is simple and easy to use, it looks outdated and has limited features such as customizing dashboards and saving particular user settings.
• CA Workload Automation lacks performance and is often slow to edit jobs or to refresh screens and sometimes requires admin to restart service agents for background processes.
• I would like to see CA Workload Automation in one screen with all the information the user wants to see and have this customized and saved for every user. Rather than having to build a view and search criteria for every new job that is added.
• I would like a feature or configuration that you can setup different types of notifications for job failures such as text message with different levels of severity.

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Very happy!

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It would be great if customer chat experience is also readily available.

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Both are excellent resources that successfully deliver the promised benefits. Two rival businesses, each with its own distinct culture and set of goals. As far as IT assistance goes, I find Azure's user interface to be slightly more intuitive. Both resources are valuable and have their advantages and disadvantages. Both are crucial if you run a fast-paced business with a large consumer base.

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CA Workload Automation stacks up very well compared to Cisco/Tidal, BMC and is far superior to crontab. CA Workload Automation has easy initial setup, efficient job management and scheduling, supports multiple applications and environments and improves business critical needs including SLA, increasing productivity while decreasing processing workload times and failures. CA Workload Automation also integrates well with Automation Change Control Expert or ACCE which is a nice migration tool to have if you're managing jobs in the thousands.

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• After initial setup, we now have significantly less time spent processing data.
• The automation of data formatting and display after processing is exciting because it frees us to focus on the data itself.
• Since using Batch, we have significantly decreased the number of items we previously utilized.

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• Positively affected in resolving issues through alerts during peak traffic.
• Monitoring directly help during Thanksgiving and Black Friday traffic.
• Reporting helped in explanation of issues to higher management.

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