CA Workload Automation vs. Tidal by Redwood

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.

Incentivized

1. Tidal Automation is a super robust application for Regular SQL tasks or other file maintenance which in-turn can help employee's to free up their time which they spend on working on repetitive tasks. 2.This has significantly reduced the time and effort required for setting up and managing workflows, ultimately increasing productivity. 3. Although we faced few problems while integrating the software with existing systems and was time consuming.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Tidal Automation is good in it's integration with Oracle ERP
• Tidal Automation was robust enough to perform all the workloads smoothly on SAP Integrations.
• Tidal Automation has the robust HA and DR features
• Tidal Automation has the best and simple user interface.
• Tidal Automation documentation is the best compared to other Workload Automation solutions in the market.

Incentivized

• Even though the CA Workload Automation GUI is simple and easy to use, it looks outdated and has limited features such as customizing dashboards and saving particular user settings.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.

Incentivized

• Still a bit slow when navigating. If you close a job you have to wait a few seconds to open another one. Even when you made no changes.
• When viewing a job and make no changes, the "ok" button changes the last modified date as if you made a change. No big deal, but wastes time when troubleshooting a problem and looking into what jobs were changed last.
• You can see the parameters column in the "job activity", but not in "Job definitions".
• Can't search the parameters field in the filter.
• Changing a variable name does not change it on the job. It still works because Tidal Automation uses the ID number. It just causes confusion when you see a variable on a job and can't find the variable under "Variables". On top of that, Tidal Automation does not show the ID column under "Variables" making it even more difficult to find the variable.

We are on the fence. The increased pricing for renewals is staggering. With new automation options like Microsoft's Power Automate and Event Driven Ansible on the field, there are other options now available.

Very happy!

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

Having provided consulting services for years on Tidal by Redwood, I recommend going with a solutions partner or consultant to deploy it. I believe there are sizing and tuning guidelines that should be followed for environments of scale. I believe they are not critical when first lighting up the product, but if you are not aware of them you will encounter performance degradation after a few thousand job objects are added.

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.

Incentivized

Tidal by Redwood excels at performing complex workflows, event-driven automation, and compliance-focused procedures in big companies with varied IT infrastructures. This includes claims, policy, and billing processes are included in this. The sending of our documents and checks to our printers for automatic printing has also been automated with TA. The majority of our regular file transfers to and from our company are done utilizing TA and SFTP. Key characteristics:- Control over access and security. Resource management and error correction. Tools for reporting and observing. Capacity for extensive automation and job scheduling. Scalability for large enterprises. Orchestration of workflow for intricate operations. Uses:- A good fit for big businesses with complicated IT environments. Ideal for managing dependencies and automating complex operations. effective at organizing cross-platform and system functions. strong support for governance and compliance.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• It has a positive impact on factors like increase in productivity, easy to implement as there some options pre-built in it which automates and perform.
• It also reduces human error mostly as it involve less manual performance and tool is time saving in this perspective.
• It also has negative impacts like cost of the tool as its expensive and if it's not properly utilized it may lead huge revenue loss as all will be scheduled per plan.
• We have to continually monitor its effectiveness to ensure a positive return on investment.