Astro by Astronomer vs. CA Workload Automation

Astro by Astronomer

CA Workload Automation

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Astro by Astronomer	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	For data teams looking to increase the availability of trusted data, Astronomer provides Astro, a data orchestration platform, powered by Airflow. Astro enables data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts to build, run, and observe pipelines-as-code. Astronomer is the driving force behind Apache Airflow™, the de facto standard for expressing data flows as code. Airflow is downloaded more than 8 million times each month and is used by hundreds of thousands of teams around the world.	N/A
CA Workload Automation	Score 7.4 out of 10	N/A	As the name may suggest, CA Workload Automation is CA Technologies workload automation offering.	N/A

Pricing

Astro by Astronomer

CA Workload Automation

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Astro by Astronomer	CA Workload Automation
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

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	Astro by Astronomer	CA Workload Automation

Features

Astro by Astronomer

CA Workload Automation

Workload Automation

Comparison of Workload Automation features of Product A and Product B
	Astro by Astronomer - Ratings	CA Workload Automation 9.6 5 Ratings 15% above category average
Multi-platform scheduling	00 Ratings	10.05 Ratings
Central monitoring	00 Ratings	10.05 Ratings
Logging	00 Ratings	10.05 Ratings
Alerts and notifications	00 Ratings	9.74 Ratings
Analysis and visualization	00 Ratings	8.84 Ratings
Application integration	00 Ratings	8.94 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Astro by Astronomer	CA Workload Automation
Small Businesses	Skyvia Score 10.0 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Astera Data Pipeline Builder (Centerprise) Score 8.8 out of 10	Apache Airflow Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises	Control-M Score 9.4 out of 10	Redwood RunMyJobs Score 9.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Astro by Astronomer	CA Workload Automation
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (5 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.7 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Astro by Astronomer	CA Workload Automation
Likelihood to Recommend	Astronomer, Inc. Astronomer is well suited for workflow and dependency management for enterprise-level data lakes. It is not a product for data processing though. Different source systems can be integrated, it also provides powerful interfaces for alerting and monitoring. Easy to build DAGs, graphical UI, API support makes the product more user-friendly as well. Astronomer also does a great job on user training. Incentivized Uddipan Mukherjee Big Data Specialist Read full review	Broadcom 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Astronomer, Inc. Workflow management Wide availability of plugins Dependency management on upstream Incentivized Uddipan Mukherjee Big Data Specialist Read full review	Broadcom 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. Incentivized KV Krishnamurthy Venkateshappa Sr Analyst Read full review
Cons	Astronomer, Inc. More language agnostic Flexible fork and join capabilities Near real time UI updates in case of deployment of enhanced DAGs Incentivized Uddipan Mukherjee Big Data Specialist Read full review	Broadcom Monitoring of front-end websites. More utilization insights if possible. Customer service via chat in the future if possible. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Astronomer, Inc. No answers on this topic	Broadcom This product along with the Broadcom support team fits out needs and scheduling requirements with no issues. The support team are very aware of their product and how to support it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Astronomer, Inc. No answers on this topic	Broadcom I love this product!! Incentivized KV Krishnamurthy Venkateshappa Sr Analyst Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Astronomer, Inc. Astronomer is a fast, secure, scalable workload management solution. It provides world-class user training along with easy to interact support. Incentivized Uddipan Mukherjee Big Data Specialist Read full review	Broadcom We selected CA Workload Automation for the ease of integration and less time to setup. It has less overhead to manage the application and is a very robust application. Incentivized Arnab Mukherjee ITSM and Project Management Consultant Read full review
Return on Investment	Astronomer, Inc. It helps to build scalable, available and low maintenance workloads Integrated Alerts and notifications helps to detect load issues in the early stages Ensures meeting data SLAs Incentivized Uddipan Mukherjee Big Data Specialist Read full review	Broadcom 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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