Broadcom Automic Automation vs. F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management

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

F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management is a great interface to manage F5 gear for large enterprises, often simplifying the routine manual workflows which are time consuming.

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)

• It show us all F5s in one spot
• It is able to take backups
• It can help with upgrades
• Give central spot to make reports

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

• To be able to schedule software updates at a later time/date to meet change management window so manual intervention is minimized. F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management should be able to send alert if upgrade process halts or fails for any reason.

Incentivized

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

It may be due to how we deployed it or how we use it, but it adds time to doing small changes. I do like the deployment detail and change tracking though.

Incentivized

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

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

B/c We liked the other products even less

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

• In 2021 thanks to Big-IQ we drastically reduced the time we spend on software upgrades.
• BigIQ helped us to have visibility of our Big-IP environment in one place.

Incentivized