CA Workload Automation vs. Dollar Universe Workload Automation

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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[It] Needs to reach more clients. It's a good tool with good technical support. [It] Automates tasks and improves reliability and reduces human errors.

• 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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• Functional across multiple platforms
• Lightweight and reliable
• More scope for increasing automation

• Even though the CA Workload Automation GUI is simple and easy to use, it looks outdated and has limited features such as customizing dashboards and saving particular user settings.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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• Maybe UI can be further improved to be more intuitive and user friendly.

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Very happy!

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It is a good technical choice for the enterprise to promote automation and integration, and switching from the traditional silo manual work to a new event-driven, fully automated workflow, allowing better visibility and resilience.

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

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It is generally ok, meeting our requirements, and the support tickets are handled properly within the agreed SLA.

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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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We evaluated a couple of other similar products for functions, features, support, and cost. Dollar Universe has an overall higher score than the others.

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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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• Easy to migrate from the legacy job scheduling environments.
• Monitoring and problem identification is improved significantly.
• Reports reveals more insight into of IT daily reality.

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