Broadcom Automic Automation vs. IBM Cloudant

This product has huge capacity to run millions of jobs per month, can serve to enterprise level of business. If client is looking for platform base solution which can be deployed on-prem or cloud base technologies then this solution works well. It has very good licensing mechanism which is based on number of agents, and there is no limitation of number of jobs run. So client has not to worry on limitation of jobs and can scale of the automation in the environment. This reduced the total cost of ownership of product. Self service automation feature can reduce the client automation cost significantly. it has good batch job coverages from Mainframe to Microservices.

Incentivized

Our organization found Cloudant most suitable if One, a fixed pricing structure would make the most sense, for example in a situation where the project Cloudant is being used in makes its revenue in procurement or fixed retainer — thus the predictability of costs is paramount; Two, where you need to frequently edit the data and/or share access to the query engine to non-engineers — this is where the GUI shines.

Incentivized

• Wide range of internal functions
• Many interfaces (incoming and outgoing)
• Modern, web-based user interface
• Strong roadmap with topics such as containerisation and AI
• High throughput possible (> 1 million executions per day)

• For us, performance and scalability is the key, and Cloudant DB backed by CouchDB is scalable and performant.
• IBM Cloudant dB is very easy to provision for sandbox, development, QA as well as production.
• Support for Java for CouchDB app server analytics enables a greater control for over developers.
• Schema free oriented very easy to program and build applications on it.
• We love it!!

Incentivized

• Could improve the framework.
• Could improve the underlying coding standards.

Incentivized

• It was only after we went with the cloud-based solution that IBM rolled out an on-premise version.
• We found that a 3rd-party ODBC driver was required for a few applications that needed to pull data out of Cloudant.
• The sales process was difficult because the salesperson we used was not as versed on Cloudant as I had hoped.

Incentivized

Automic is a very strong Automation Platform which enable us to implement user requirements quickly.

the flexibility of NoSQL allow us to modify and upgrade our apps very fast and in a convenient way. Having the solution hosted by IBM is also giving us the chance to focus on features and the improvement of our apps. It's one thing less to be worried about

Incentivized

It's mostly just a straight forward API to a data store. I knock one off for the full text search thing, but I don't need it much anyways. Also, the dashboard UI they give is pretty nice to use. It provides syntax-highlighting for writing views and queries are easy to test. I wish other DBs had a UI like this.

Incentivized

it is a highly available solution in the IBM cloud portfolio and hence we have never had any issues with the data base being available - we also do continuous replication to be on the safer side just in case some thing goes awry. We also perform twice a year disaster recovery tests.

Incentivized

very easy to get started and is very developer friendly given that it uses couchDB analytics. It is a cloud based solution and hence there is no hardware investment in a server and staging the server to get started and the associated delays/bureaucracy involved to get started. Good documentation is also available.

Incentivized

I have not used Automic One Automation Platform (formerly CA Automic Automation Platform) support.

Incentivized

Very happy by the commitment given by the team which has been really good over the last 7 years of usage.

Incentivized

online resources are good enough to understand but there is nothing like testing. In our case, we discovered some not documented behavior that we take in count now. Also, the experience in NodeJs is critical. Also, take in count that most of the "good practices" with cloudant are not in online courses but in blogs and pages from independent developers

Incentivized

• Test the architecture on CouchDB helped us to address initial design flaws.
• The migration to Cloudant as such was very painless.
• We have migrate our replication system to Cloudant Android Sync for mobile devices.
• We have regular informal contact with the Cloudant leadership to discuss our use cases and implementation strategies.

Incentivized

1. Cost was the major factor without compromising the automation service which this product delivered. Other products are expensive and deliver the same outcome. 2. Limitation of job run, Broadcom Automic Automation allows to run unlimited jobs and helps to increase automation capability. 3. Number of automation packs available with no extra license cost. 4. Depth of coverage of technologies for batch job automation. 5. Required less number of hardware to achieve high availability.

Incentivized

The feature-set, including security, is very comparable. Overall, IBM's services added to the product are mature and stable, although product support and engineers could be a little better. Global availability is improving, and Disaster Recover Capabilities are great. Overall, it's very comparable to MongoDB as a DBaaS offer, available globally and with great documentation.

Incentivized

The service scales incredibly well. As you would expect from CloudDB and IBM combination. The only reason I wouldn't score it a 10 is the fact that document trees can get nested and nested very quickly if you are attempting to do very complex datasets. Which makes your code that much more complex to deal. Its very possible we could find a solution to this problem with better database planning to begin with, but one of the reasons we chose a service over a self-hosted solution was so we could set it up quick and forget about it. So we weren't going to dedicate a team to architecture optimization.

Incentivized

• Improved SAP automation thereby giving good returns.
• Provides mail integration which further widens automation scope and profits.

Incentivized

• IBM Cloudant is very secure and we never have to worry about losing data/unauthorized access
• It is one of the best data backup system and works well
• Global availability means it is easy to connect to the nearest data center and this reduces load time which is great.