CA Workload Automation vs. Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer (discontinued)

CA Workload Automation

Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer (discontinued)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer (discontinued)	Score 7.7 out of 10	N/A	Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer was a real-time decision engine for continuous optimization of application resources across on-premises, public cloud, and edge environments. The service is being discontinued.	N/A

Pricing

CA Workload Automation

Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer (discontinued)

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
CA Workload Automation	Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer (discontinued)
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	CA Workload Automation	Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer (discontinued)
Considered Both Products	CA Workload Automation KV Krishnamurthy Venkateshappa Sr Analyst Chose CA Workload Automation Delivered PeopleSoft Process scheduler doesn't provide one stop to review all batch jobs and dependencies. Also, it doesn't provide graphical representation of all jobs. In contrast, Autosys provides nice graphical interface of all jobs and it's status. Autosys allows to review … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose CA Workload Automation We use these products as well, but currently the usage depends on the department. Incentivized Helpful? Arnab Mukherjee ITSM and Project Management Consultant Chose CA Workload Automation 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose CA Workload Automation CA Workload Automation stacks up very well compared to Cisco/Tidal, BMC and is far superior to crontab. CA Workload Automation has easy initial setup, efficient job management and scheduling, supports multiple applications and environments and improves business critical needs … Incentivized Helpful?	Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer (discontinued) No answer on this topic

Features

CA Workload Automation

Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer (discontinued)

Workload Automation

Comparison of Workload Automation features of Product A and Product B
	CA Workload Automation 9.6 Ratings 15% above category average	Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer (discontinued) - Ratings
Multi-platform scheduling	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Central monitoring	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Logging	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Alerts and notifications	9.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Analysis and visualization	8.80 Ratings	00 Ratings
Application integration	8.90 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	CA Workload Automation	Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer (discontinued)
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Apache Airflow Score 8.7 out of 10	Apache Airflow Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises	Redwood RunMyJobs Score 9.7 out of 10	Redwood RunMyJobs Score 9.7 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	CA Workload Automation	Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.7 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	CA Workload Automation	Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	If batch jobs are heavily used then this product is highly recommended since it maintains dependencies between jobs, notifies if there are any failures, and puts the next batches on hold if previous dependent jobs fails. Incentivized KV Krishnamurthy Venkateshappa Sr Analyst Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	cross platform scheduling job schedule controlling based on return codes data set triggering based on incoming files thru an ftp server Job condition code processing/triggering agent monitoring on multiple platforms. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	Better Reporting and Troubleshooting of why some jobs are failing. Incentivized Arnab Mukherjee ITSM and Project Management Consultant Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	Very happy! Incentivized KV Krishnamurthy Venkateshappa Sr Analyst Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	It would be great if customer chat experience is also readily available. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	CA Workload Automation stacks up very well compared to Cisco/Tidal, BMC and is far superior to crontab. CA Workload Automation has easy initial setup, efficient job management and scheduling, supports multiple applications and environments and improves business critical needs including SLA, increasing productivity while decreasing processing workload times and failures. CA Workload Automation also integrates well with Automation Change Control Expert or ACCE which is a nice migration tool to have if you're managing jobs in the thousands. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Positively affected in resolving issues through alerts during peak traffic. Monitoring directly help during Thanksgiving and Black Friday traffic. Reporting helped in explanation of issues to higher management. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
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