Broadcom Automic Automation vs. Tidal by Redwood

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Broadcom Automic Automation
Score 7.9 out of 10
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Broadcom Automic Automation (formerly the CA Automic Business Automation Platform)is a workload automation and release / deployment management offering supported by Broadcom, which provides an open, scalable and unified approach to driving automation across, enableing the user to reduce time-to-value and increase business agility by using automation as the backbone of digital transformation.N/A
Tidal by Redwood
Score 6.5 out of 10
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Tidal Automation, from Redwood Software since the early 2023 acquisition, is an enterprise workload automation platform for automating and orchestrating cross-application, cross-platform workloads – in on-prem, cloud or hybrid environments – from one central point of control. Tidal is used to optimize mission-critical business processes, manage…N/A
Pricing
Broadcom Automic AutomationTidal by Redwood
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Broadcom Automic AutomationTidal by Redwood
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Broadcom Automic AutomationTidal by Redwood
Considered Both Products
Broadcom Automic Automation

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Tidal by Redwood
Chose Tidal by Redwood
Tidal Automation had the best and most transparent pricing. Tidal Automation has the best dedicated team investing in the development of the product. Tidal Automation was always ahead of its time in the Workload Automation industry. It has the best in industry documentation of …
Chose Tidal by Redwood
I liked the ability to write code directly within Automic. I understood the logic of the "object oriented" design of the user interface, but I felt it was confusing to understand and troubleshoot.

You don't have to look too deep into Control-M to see it's mainframe roots. The …
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Features
Broadcom Automic AutomationTidal by Redwood
Workload Automation
Comparison of Workload Automation features of Product A and Product B
Broadcom Automic Automation
8.3
4 Ratings
1% above category average
Tidal by Redwood
8.2
19 Ratings
0% above category average
Multi-platform scheduling9.14 Ratings8.616 Ratings
Central monitoring8.14 Ratings8.418 Ratings
Logging8.24 Ratings8.119 Ratings
Alerts and notifications8.24 Ratings8.319 Ratings
Analysis and visualization8.14 Ratings7.919 Ratings
Application integration8.24 Ratings7.918 Ratings
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Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
ActiveBatch Workload Automation
ActiveBatch Workload Automation
Score 8.6 out of 10
ActiveBatch Workload Automation
ActiveBatch Workload Automation
Score 8.6 out of 10
Enterprises
Redwood RunMyJobs
Redwood RunMyJobs
Score 9.4 out of 10
Redwood RunMyJobs
Redwood RunMyJobs
Score 9.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
Broadcom Automic AutomationTidal by Redwood
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(4 ratings)
8.1
(21 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
2.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
4.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Broadcom Automic AutomationTidal by Redwood
Likelihood to Recommend
Broadcom
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.
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Redwood Software
On coming to well suited experience while error handling and effortless recovery processes are crucial, Tidal performs exceptionally well. It can identify and fix automated issues, reducing downtime and interruptions. A smaller automation solution may be more cost-effective if a business primarily utilizes a single platform or uses a small number of applications that do not require complex integration.
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Pros
Broadcom
  • 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)
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Redwood Software
  • Tidal Automation allows us to automate and schedule/ perform various tasks in a easy and effective manner. It is highly interactive and effective allowing nearly 4k -5k jobs to run a day.
  • Tidal is designed to be easily shareable and collaborative allowing multiple users to work at a particular time making work effective.
  • Tidal allows us to ensure that every event which is triggered is exactly when it's supposed to be regardless of other activities which are going as well.
  • It is user-friendly to generate the reports required of a particular object and allows us to test the codes perfectly well before executing in live environment.
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Cons
Broadcom
  • Could improve the framework.
  • Could improve the underlying coding standards.
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Redwood Software
  • Still a bit slow when navigating. If you close a job you have to wait a few seconds to open another one. Even when you made no changes.
  • When viewing a job and make no changes, the "ok" button changes the last modified date as if you made a change. No big deal, but wastes time when troubleshooting a problem and looking into what jobs were changed last.
  • You can see the parameters column in the "job activity", but not in "Job definitions".
  • Can't search the parameters field in the filter.
  • Changing a variable name does not change it on the job. It still works because Tidal Automation uses the ID number. It just causes confusion when you see a variable on a job and can't find the variable under "Variables". On top of that, Tidal Automation does not show the ID column under "Variables" making it even more difficult to find the variable.
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Likelihood to Renew
Broadcom
Automic is a very strong Automation Platform which enable us to implement user requirements quickly.
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Redwood Software
We are on the fence. The increased pricing for renewals is staggering. With new automation options like Microsoft's Power Automate and Event Driven Ansible on the field, there are other options now available.
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Support Rating
Broadcom
I have not used Automic One Automation Platform (formerly CA Automic Automation Platform) support.
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Redwood Software
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Implementation Rating
Broadcom
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Redwood Software
Having provided consulting services for years on Tidal by Redwood, I recommend going with a solutions partner or consultant to deploy it. I believe there are sizing and tuning guidelines that should be followed for environments of scale. I believe they are not critical when first lighting up the product, but if you are not aware of them you will encounter performance degradation after a few thousand job objects are added.
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Alternatives Considered
Broadcom
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.
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Redwood Software
1. Tidal is good at processing large volume pf data and is cost effective. 2. Tidal can automate the scheduling of production objects, ensure that materials are delivered on time 3. Tidal Process large volumes of data which cannot be done everyday by running codes/scripts manually which does it with ease when required.
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Return on Investment
Broadcom
  • Improved SAP automation thereby giving good returns.
  • Provides mail integration which further widens automation scope and profits.
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Redwood Software
  • Better decision-making and more process visibility are achieved through reporting and monitoring.
  • Lowered time frames and streamlined administration of the workflow.
  • Improved cost and resource allocation, especially in cloud contexts.
  • A decrease in manual errors and related expenditures.
  • Unusual problems that could occur during automation.
  • Possible difficulties shifting to a new automation tool.
  • The expense of beginning implementation and training.
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