CA Workload Automation Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 7.1 out of 10

Score

7.1 out of 10

Reviews

4 Reviews

Great product for managing batch jobs!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 12, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

CA Workload Automation is used schedule batch jobs across ERP applications (FSCM, HCM, EPM). It's used by the finance, supply chain, and HR departments. It is a one stop for reviewing all batch job's statuses and manage from the application. These days we are also using Autosys to invoice OIC integrations and add dependencies with existing jobs. Autosys is a great tool to work with!

Pros

All batch jobs can be monitored from one dashboard.
Provides detailed error logs.
We have developed packages to invoke OIC integrations through Autosys.
Notifications is a good feature when job fails or runs beyond cutoff time.

Cons

Doesn't sort out jobs within the box.
Drag and drop feature will help in expediting Autosys job development.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Krishnamurthy Venkateshappa

Sr Analyst in Information Technology at Northwell (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

CA Workload Automation Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 11, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is currently being used across a department with access to a certain set of applications and is used to see the performance of the servers.

Pros

Instrumentation of backend servers.
Analyzing the performance of these servers.
Helping users with network utilization, CPU utilization details, etc.

Cons

Monitoring of front-end websites.
More utilization insights if possible.
Customer service via chat in the future if possible.

Likelihood to Recommend

Suitable for utilization of backend servers, not currently perfectly suitable for front-end performance monitoring.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Job Scheduling software orchestrates and automates business processes and tasks from a single point of view.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 27, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using this application to manage our workload (and schedule jobs) for our Back Office Operations. Jobs have been scheduled, which includes shell scripts, db procedures, batch jobs, integration with Informatica and Big Data Hadoop. Views and alerts have been setup for our NOC to monitor these jobs 24/7. Currently being used by IT Operations and Application Team.

Pros

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.

Cons

Better Reporting and Troubleshooting of why some jobs are failing.

Likelihood to Recommend

Good for monitoring in a heterogeneous environment, and well suited for cross platform support. Easy to upgrade and migrate data. There is less overhead to manage the application.

Arnab Mukherjee

ITSM and Project Management Consultant in Information Technology at Kyra Solutions, Inc. (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

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CA Workload Automation is reliable and easy to use

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 21, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

CA Workload Automation is being across our entire Technology department to manage the operations of multiple applications of multiple environments. CA Workload Automation helps the business by reducing job failures, increases transparency into applications and the issues that it creates and most importantly, helps the firm by meeting SLA requirements more consistently.

Pros

CA Workload Automation manages and customizes job scheduling very well.
CA Workload Automation is very easy to learn and start using. The GUI design is very simple and makes it easy for first time users to setup their jobs, parameters and conditions.
CA Workload Automation supports the major operating systems, Oracle applications and supports growing volume of workloads quite well.
CA Workload Automation reduces time to process workloads and flexible to support multiple environments which is critical for testing, maintenance and operations in for any Technology group.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

CA Workload Automation is well suited for firms having to manage and monitor multiple applications operating in multiple environments. and having SLA requirements. CA Workload Automation is less appropriate and not cost-effective for non-critical applications and/or jobs. CA Workload Automation is ideal for companies that require reliable and stable Production support for their business critical jobs to finish on time.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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CA Workload Automation is reliable and easy to use

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 21, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

CA Workload Automation manages and customizes job scheduling very well.
CA Workload Automation is very easy to learn and start using. The GUI design is very simple and makes it easy for first time users to setup their jobs, parameters and conditions.
CA Workload Automation supports the major operating systems, Oracle applications and supports growing volume of workloads quite well.
CA Workload Automation reduces time to process workloads and flexible to support multiple environments which is critical for testing, maintenance and operations in for any Technology group.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience