AppFog (discontinued) vs. CA Workload Automation vs. OpenText Operations Orchestration

AppFog is good for academic purposes. It comes in very handy for cloud deployments.

Incentivized

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

For our business, this system is really THE system. We use it for the management of almost all aspects of a member's account. I honestly cannot think of something that it cannot do.

Incentivized

• Quick deployment of pre-built virtual machines
• Some of the virtual machines also are readily available with a pack of softwares
• Good Stability. Using it as a student, I have never experienced any downtime issues with the projects deployed on AppFog.

Incentivized

• cross platform scheduling
• job schedule controlling based on return codes
• data set triggering based on incoming files thru an ftp server
• Job condition code processing/triggering
• agent monitoring on multiple platforms.

Incentivized

• Allows for the quick disconnection of accounts that break our terms of service
• Seamless integration with our billing system
• Has the ability to house all member/client account information in one single location

Incentivized

• Though it is good and easy for developers, it lacks operational activities and monitoring tools.
• It is easy to deploy WAR on AppFog with its console but sometimes it can lack on the performance and feasibility.

Incentivized

• Better Reporting and Troubleshooting of why some jobs are failing.

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• The product build in portal need to be more flexible

Very happy!

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

Appfog was one of the requirements of our project since it was the fastest growing PAAS provider. Also it was easy to deploy an application with multiple options to choose for the development environment for our application. It was "ALL in ONE."

Incentivized

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

Most product works well enough, but none of them combine the non-agent/client approach to automation with an easy to develop mechanism (the drag&drop development approach) This alone put this solution on top of our preferred implantation product list

• Our project was deployed with good efficiency and easily accessible.
• The platform was much recommeded across the groups and peers.

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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.

Incentivized

• Product enabled reduce manpower and overall costs for most services implement.
• The ROI is constantly being measured and evaluated by the product portal as time&money measurements