AutoSys Workload Automation vs. BMC FootPrints

In Informatica or Spark ETL jobs loading data into a Data Warehouse using AutoSys Workload Automation triggers ETL pipelines, monitors completion of jobs and also triggers the power bi report refresh. AutoSys Workload Automation can schedule jobs based on file arrival, and provide alerts if any data loads get failed. A small data team managing greater than 100 jobs. Buying and maintaining AutoSys Workload Automation is overkill in terms of cost, complexity and maintenance does not justify the value

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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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• AutoSys Workload Automation is our scheduler that automates and monitors workflows across all our system reducing manual runs
• Applications which run over multiples systems(cloud, on premise) are coordinated using AutoSys Workload Automation
• AutoSys Workload Automation clustering or failover ensures that workloads continue without any issue.
• AutoSys Workload Automation maintains execution logs and job history, which helps in compliance, audit trails, and root-cause analysis.

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• 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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• In AutoSys Workload Automation, Workflow and job dependencies are shown in a static way, which makes user difficult to visualize more complex job chains or debug failures in a graphical view.
• Latest schedulers (like Control-M, Airflow) allow more easy workflow design makes user to understand it better, but AutoSys Workload Automation relies heavily on JIL scripts and text-based job definitions.
• AutoSys Workload Automation interface is very slow when searching or filtering over thousand of jobs

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

AutoSys Workload Automation is a place to schedule, monitor, and manage thousands of jobs. Time, file arrival, dependencies are much very flexible. Once jobs are set up they run consistently with minimal intervention. AutoSys Workload Automation is powerful but very complex o understand. Mainly for beginners the interface is not user friendly. AutoSys Workload Automation is very useful in terms of job scheduling and automation. AutoSys Workload Automation is also useful for strong logging and reporting purpose. AutoSys Workload Automation has reduced a lot of human efforts and manual processing.

Incentivized

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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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.

Incentivized

In AutoSys Workload Automation, strong legacy presence, proven reliability, slightly simpler for basic scheduling if user already have in-house AutoSys Workload Automation expertise. so we already had investments in AutoSys Workload Automation, trained team, and large numbers of jobs running thus making AutoSys Workload Automation more cost-effective to continue rather than migrate to use AutoSys Workload Automation over Control-M. All our workloads are heavily batch-driven (SAP, ETL) real-time pipelines. AutoSys Workload Automation provides the robustness and enterprise support that Airflow lacks without heavy internal engineering overhead.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• Critical job process consistently complete on time without delays
• Significant reduction in team effort due to this resources for available for higher-value tasks. Human intervention is reduced due to this incident costs are also reduced.
• Faster incident resolution, improved productivity, and lower downtime.

Incentivized

• 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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