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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BMC FootPrints

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ABMC FootPrints is an IT service management (ITSM) solution featuring workload automation.N/A

    Redwood RunMyJobs

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/ARedwood Business Process Automation is a workload automation and job scheduling solution designed for and delivered via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). It transforms the digital enterprise with scalability and integration with all technologies in the modern enterprise. Redwood unifies workflows across on-premises, private, hybrid and public cloud environments. It bridges gaps in complex processes that function between mainframe, distributed, virtual and cloud resources. Clients use Redwood to…N/A
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    BMC FootPrintsRedwood RunMyJobs
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Considered Both Products
    BMC Software Inc.
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    Redwood Software
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    26 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    96%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    BMC FootPrintsRedwood RunMyJobs
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of BMC FootPrints and Redwood RunMyJobs
    Feature
    BMC FootPrints
    8.2
    10 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Redwood RunMyJobs
    -
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    Organize and prioritize service tickets9.110 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service restoration6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service tools7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of BMC FootPrints and Redwood RunMyJobs
    Feature
    BMC FootPrints
    7.9
    7 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Redwood RunMyJobs
    -
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    Configuration mangement7.77 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of BMC FootPrints and Redwood RunMyJobs
    Feature
    BMC FootPrints
    9.0
    4 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Redwood RunMyJobs
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    Change requests repository9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change calendar9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service-level management9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workload Automation
    Comparison of Workload Automation features of BMC FootPrints and Redwood RunMyJobs
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    BMC FootPrints
    -
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    Redwood RunMyJobs
    9.4
    21 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Multi-platform scheduling00 Ratings9.621 Ratings
    Central monitoring00 Ratings9.421 Ratings
    Logging00 Ratings9.421 Ratings
    Alerts and notifications00 Ratings9.421 Ratings
    Analysis and visualization00 Ratings9.621 Ratings
    Application integration00 Ratings9.220 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    BMC FootPrintsRedwood RunMyJobs
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (19 ratings)
    9.5
    (27 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (9 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    7.1
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BMC FootPrintsRedwood RunMyJobs
    Likelihood to Recommend
    BMC Software Inc.
    BMC Footprints is so well suited to keep the documentation easy to read and find, as same as typification. You can find specific documentation for an audit so fast and export a report using the specific criteria that you need to comply with your boss or audit needs. As I told before, BMC footprints need to be more friendly to the end users because they get lost many times trying to track some ticket or typing documentation.
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    Redwood Software
    The automation of batch processing operations like file transfers, data backups, and report production is a good fit for Redwood Workload Automation. Organizations' IT operations can be streamlined and made more efficient because to its capacity to automate and schedule these procedures across a variety of platforms. Redwood Workload Automation is highly suited for automating complicated business operations within SAP settings and has a close interaction with SAP systems. Organizations may automate and streamline their SAP processes with the help of its ability to handle SAP tasks, spools, and workflows. Redwood Workload Automation excels at automating workloads on a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Unix, and other cloud environments. This makes it a viable option for businesses that need automation across numerous systems and have complex IT infrastructures. For large businesses with complicated IT environments, Redwood Workload Automation was created. It is the perfect option for enterprises with high-volume transaction processing requirements due to its scalability and capacity for handling large-scale workloads.
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    Pros
    BMC Software Inc.
    • Documentation. We try to reduce the amount of paperwork needed for staff to do their job, so by automating certain tasks, we are able to speed up the resolution process for trouble tickets.
    • Reporting. We'll use the reporting tool to get the number of tickets opened, response times and can go into granular reports.
    • Surveys. When tickets are closed, we automatically send out surveys to end users to get valuable feedback on how we did and what we can improve.
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    Redwood Software
    • SAP Batch Scheduling - This is THE BEST tool for triggering SAP jobs, bar none.
    • User management- Other scheduling tools make it much more difficult to manage user access. Redwood user access management is a breeze and take less than half the time it take in other products.
    • Scheduling Flexibility- The ease with which you can make custom time windows with Redwood is one of my favorite pluses. You can build as simple or as complex of a time window as you need to with Redwood.
    • Support- The support that you get from Redwood is in my opinion the best in the world. I have dealt with all the big name players in IT and they all pale in comparison to Redwood. You will never feel like you are in it alone with the best support in the world right at your fingertips.
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    Cons
    BMC Software Inc.
    • Purpose based configuration- It would be beneficial to see a more purposed based, out of the box, configuration option. For example, if you need PCI compliance, more intuitive reporting would make managing compliance much easier.
    • Initial design and implementation- Don't think that your experience as an IT professional will allow you to stand this system up on your own. To properly configure Footprints and set yourself up for success down the road, get Professional Services with this one.
    • Somewhat behind the times- Service Core is making a huge leap forward with the latest version, 12, but Asset Core is far behind. There are quite a few quirks to how the application works and how it is used.
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    Redwood Software
    • A dashboard for checking the overall health of the tool
    • Direct excel export option is unavailable to transport the jobs.
    • Mobile notification is also helpful for those user who worked in 24*7 shift. if this option will available it is very useful for those user who needs to check system again and again
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    Likelihood to Renew
    BMC Software Inc.
    It has been the business decision to go with them and that is what we will do. Going back, this would have not been the choice, but nothing can be done about it now. We are stuck with this application for years to come. Wish there were other possibilities that could be done.
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    Redwood Software
    Being in the cloud is a big help, with less hardware to maintain, the patches and updates are fast and easily done, we have built a good working relationship with Redwood.
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    Usability
    BMC Software Inc.
    It's so simple to use and customize however you want. You can create new workspaces and workflows with ease, set up new users, incoming email rules, customize the layout of the forms, and even change the colors and logos. It's just very easily customizable overall. It's also really straightforward to figure out how to use, you really almost don't have to show somebody how to use it. If you just sit them down in front of it and let them look it over, they could figure it out themselves easily.
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    Redwood Software
    The Redwood user interface is straightforward. The script can be used to renew the Redwood license by just copying the text from the. txt file from start to finish of license. The current page and the status of the work can both be refreshed automatically by setting a timer in Redwood. Redwood software's eye-catching features include online help through documentation and help support, which may be accessed by clicking the "I" button in the top right corner.
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    Support Rating
    BMC Software Inc.
    I've had no issues with the support for FootPrints. We haven't really had to use them all that much over the years, but when needed they have always been prompt and knowledgeable at dealing with any issue. I've worked with a lot of different support teams over the years, and they have been one of my favorites to work with.
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    Redwood Software
    It seems many pressing issues have to be escalated to their dev team, which I believe is mostly overseas. The response time isn't always the greatest. I go back to the documentation as well, if that was better there would be less need of support from myself. There are also times when they figure out the resolution, it has to be included with a fix in which you have to wait for the next release, however long that may be. Update - the support response time and quality of answers has greatly increased in the past 6 months or more.
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    Alternatives Considered
    BMC Software Inc.
    I was not involved in the selection process but in my opinion either SQL or Access databases would have worked just as well without the same amount of cost. These two systems would have been much easier to manage and would have tracked the same information in a less convoluted process and expense.
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    Redwood Software
    Hi, We use redwood workload automation for scheduling jobs and for automatic alerts generation in case of long running and failed jobs. It provides easy access of managing jobs and controlling the flow of automation. Alerts generated keeps us up to date of the long running jobs as well as failed jobs. Configuring the jobs is easy and scheduling them through redwood makes it very effective for 24hours monitoring. The Redwood Support team is very helpful and gives prompt response and faster resolution when needed.
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    Return on Investment
    BMC Software Inc.
    • It helps us with keeping projects on track, which saves time
    • When someone wants to know about a project, they are able to without calling around
    • I have had a difficult time searching specifics, as how many tickets closed by me in 2021
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    Redwood Software
    • Simple to install Redwood Workload Automation agent servers on every server side and trigger the necessary jobs in keeping with business needs.
    • Allows for the interdependent scheduling of groups of Windows scripts and shell scripts.
    • Many problems have been fixed, such as the ability to gather data on the number of activities that are executed each day, receive email notifications when a job expires, and connect system agents to monitors.
    • capable of adhering to SLAs for complicated order flows
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    ScreenShots

    Redwood RunMyJobs Screenshots

    Screenshot of Dashboard users see when first logging in.Screenshot of Shows a specific process definition, how a user would edit that definition.Screenshot of Built in testing environment to run the definition without leaving the definitionScreenshot of Editing a whole process chain, not just a single processScreenshot of Shows the Process Monitor where we can see the status of the chain execution, this instance is with an errorScreenshot of Shows the Process Monitor where we can see the status of the chain execution, this instance is without an error