Broadcom Automic Automation vs. HashiCorp Waypoint

Automic One Automation Platform (formerly CA Automic Automation Platform) is well suited for applications such as SAP and operating systems such as windows, Linux. It can be used to automate these applications as it can be done through remote function calls and business application peripheral interfaces. It can also be used to run scripts on remote machines, which further enables automation of ms office applications such as ms Excel and MS Word.

Incentivized

Waypoint is very similar to teraform , it can run a ec2 machine, an ECS service, Azure containers, Google containers and many more , which is one of the most advantageous thing about waypoint . The team that we are working with has a hybrid customer based in multiple clouds like AWS, Azure and GCP.

Incentivized

• Batch Job of complex work load across platforms ERP system , Business Apps, Mainframe to Microservices
• Digital business automation , accelerate the integration of big data and
• Oracle automation, increase visibility and control on oracle EBS processing
• Self Service automation, Simplify business service across the multi-cloud
• Site reliability automation, enhances monitoring and correlation with intelligent recommendations and auto - remediation

Incentivized

• The infrastructure as a code concept is simple and easy to learn in waypoint
• You can integrate waypoint with various code repositories like Github, Gitlab etc
• The waypoint UI provides a interactive interface to view the status of your builds

Incentivized

• Could improve the framework.
• Could improve the underlying coding standards.

Incentivized

• Need more controlling environment which is missing in waypoint
• The UI lags sometimes which can be problematic at times
• It uses HCL language which is outdated , can be moved to YAML which is used by most of the tools
• Need to copy the endpoint everytime from waypoint to my browser
• It forces me to install a server

Incentivized

Automic is a very strong Automation Platform which enable us to implement user requirements quickly.

I have not used Automic One Automation Platform (formerly CA Automic Automation Platform) support.

Incentivized

1. Cost was the major factor without compromising the automation service which this product delivered. Other products are expensive and deliver the same outcome. 2. Limitation of job run, Broadcom Automic Automation allows to run unlimited jobs and helps to increase automation capability. 3. Number of automation packs available with no extra license cost. 4. Depth of coverage of technologies for batch job automation. 5. Required less number of hardware to achieve high availability.

Incentivized

As waypoint is developed by HashiCorp which is also a developer of teraform , the trust was already there . Moreover the simplicity of ease of access made our choice even more clearer against its competitors. The competitors were good but weren't able to compete with the versatility and suite of application and functionality provided by WAYPOINT.

Incentivized

• Hours of server operations given over to end-users.
• Single pipelines for job plan execution reduced the operational overhead.

Incentivized

• ROI was good as team was able to adapt to it in very less time
• We were able to setup our hybrid cloud environment within 2 months smoothly
• we created lot of POCs with waypoint which helped us procure a lot of customers

Incentivized