#1 most frequent
United States of America
78.0%110 installations of 141
What is CA Workload Automation?
As the name may suggest, CA Workload Automation is CA Technologies workload automation offering.
Categories & Use Cases
Product Demos
Top Performing Features
Multi-platform scheduling
Multi-platform scheduling is the ability to centrally manage a business process from end-to-end
Category average: 9.2
Central monitoring
A central monitoring dashboard provides data on trends and forecasts
Category average: 9
Logging
Logging and audit trails to ensure regulatory compliance
Category average: 8.6
Areas for Improvement
Alerts and notifications
Alerts and notifications enabling management by exception
Category average: 8.6
Application integration
Integration with a broad range of enterprise applications
Category average: 8.4
Analysis and visualization
Analysis and visualization tools provide clear understanding of critical errors and helps prioritize errors
Category average: 8.3
Who Buys & Uses CA Workload Automation
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
5.7%8 installations of 141
#3 most frequent
Canada
5.0%7 installations of 141
Great product for managing batch jobs!
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.
Return on Investment
- Reduces effort of support analysts in monitoring batch jobs.
- Helps in quickly fixing and restarting jobs.
- Notification feature helps in quickly attending to the problem and fixing it.
Usability
Other Software Used
Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian Jira Align (formerly AgileCraft)
Job Scheduling software orchestrates and automates business processes and tasks from a single point of view.
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.
Return on Investment
- Easier to manage and alert on Workload.
- Greater visibility on all application and database jobs running on different OS and databases.
Other Software Used
CA Spectrum, SolarWinds Log & Event Manager, CA Service Desk Manager, Smartsheet
CA Workload Automation Review
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.
Return on Investment
- 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.
Alternatives Considered
Catchpoint and Dynatrace
Other Software Used
Dynatrace, Catchpoint, Micro Focus LoadRunner (formerly HP LoadRunner)
CA Workload Automation is reliable and easy to use
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.
Return on Investment
- CA Workload Automation has improved SLA by 50%.
- CA Workload Automation has reduced job failures by 60%.
- CA Workload Automation has improved staff productivity and problem resolution.
- CA Workload Automation has improved application availability.
Alternatives Considered
BMC, Tidal, crontab and ACCE