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CA Workload Automation vs. F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CA Workload Automation

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AAs the name may suggest, CA Workload Automation is CA Technologies workload automation offering.N/A

    F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AF5's BIG-IQ provides centralized management of app services and security policies.N/A
    Pricing
    CA Workload AutomationF5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CA Workload AutomationF5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    CA Workload AutomationF5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
    Considered Both Products
    Broadcom
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    F5
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    33%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    40%
    Delivers good value for the price
    4 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    20%
    Happy with the feature set
    3 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    11%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    1 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    55%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    CA Workload AutomationF5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
    Workload Automation
    Comparison of Workload Automation features of CA Workload Automation and F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
    Feature
    CA Workload Automation
    9.6
    5 Ratings
    15% above category average
    F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-platform scheduling10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Central monitoring10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Logging10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and notifications9.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analysis and visualization8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application integration8.94 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    CA Workload AutomationF5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    4.2
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    4.3
    (12 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CA Workload AutomationF5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Broadcom
    CA Workload Automation is well suited for firms having to manage and monitor multiple applications operating in multiple environments. and having SLA requirements. CA Workload Automation is less appropriate and not cost-effective for non-critical applications and/or jobs. CA Workload Automation is ideal for companies that require reliable and stable Production support for their business critical jobs to finish on time.
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    F5
    F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management works perfectly in Software upgrades and simple daily changes. We are successfully using it to create and or delete objects. It doesn`t works well when we need reports. I usually have to create custom scripts to get a list of objects, for example. Performance is also something that could be improved in Big-IQ
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    Pros
    Broadcom
    • All batch jobs can be monitored from one dashboard.
    • Provides detailed error logs.
    • We have developed packages to invoke OIC integrations through Autosys.
    • Notifications is a good feature when job fails or runs beyond cutoff time.
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    F5
    • Common system level changes like cipher suite customization, ssh protocol settings etc can be pushed to all F5 gear through one click of a button
    • Enterprise standard templates for profiles/protocols etc., can be efficiently managed across F5 gear through a single interface
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    Cons
    Broadcom
    • Monitoring of front-end websites.
    • More utilization insights if possible.
    • Customer service via chat in the future if possible.
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    F5
    • There a lack of the going forward to next
    • The second site product does not do what we need and we are forced to write our own scripts
    • Many of the alerting that was in enterprise management is no longer in F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Broadcom
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    F5
    There is some room for improvement around RBAC. The access to certain features, options and menus is not straightforward and not that granular.
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    Usability
    Broadcom
    This product along with the Broadcom support team fits out needs and scheduling requirements with no issues. The support team are very aware of their product and how to support it.
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    F5
    I feel pinning policies are killing you guys when it comes to being able to add multiple LTMs that have different naming conventions.
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    Support Rating
    Broadcom
    I love this product!!
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    F5
    The support is a bit complex and not straightforward. It seems there aren't many engineers supporting this platform. There are many components in the solution that makes it complex for troubleshooting. Documentation needs to be more in depth, and I have opened a few cases around cluster sync issues and objects stalled. In the end I was able to find and fix the problem.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Broadcom
    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.
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    F5
    Of all the centralized Management platforms I have ever used, BIG-IQ is the worst. It constantly breaks and requires fixing in some way or another.
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    Return on Investment
    Broadcom
    • CA Workload Automation has improved SLA by 50%.
    • CA Workload Automation has reduced job failures by 60%.
    • CA Workload Automation has improved staff productivity and problem resolution.
    • CA Workload Automation has improved application availability.
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    F5
    • Cut costs by requiring less manual hours to manage F5 OS installations
    • Great monitoring and alerting tool for general F5 gear health
    • Provides critical information for capacity planning of the F5 resources
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