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Broadcom Automic Automation

Score9 out of 10

14 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Broadcom Automic Automation?

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.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Broadcom Automic Automation has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 14 ratings of Broadcom Automic Automation's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Multi-platform scheduling

    Multi-platform scheduling is the ability to centrally manage a business process from end-to-end

    Category average: 9.1

  • Central monitoring

    A central monitoring dashboard provides data on trends and forecasts

    Category average: 8.9

  • Logging

    Logging and audit trails to ensure regulatory compliance

    Category average: 8.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Alerts and notifications

    Alerts and notifications enabling management by exception

    Category average: 8.7

  • Analysis and visualization

    Analysis and visualization tools provide clear understanding of critical errors and helps prioritize errors

    Category average: 8.2

  • Application integration

    Integration with a broad range of enterprise applications

    Category average: 8.3

Reviews

What users are saying about Broadcom Automic Automation.
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Automic - IT Process Automation

Incentivized
Shreyash Rangarajan
Senior Analyst in Information Technology at Capgemini (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • SAP Automation is the foremost thing that comes to mind.
  • Supports automation Scripts in multiple operating systems such as Linux, Windows, etc.

Cons

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

Return on Investment

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

Alternatives Considered

UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform, Automation Anywhere and Anaconda

Other Software Used

UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform, Automation Anywhere, Anaconda

Automic for the Enterprise

Incentivized
Gregory HansonView profile
Lead Middleware Engineer in Information Technology at The OCC (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Job execution
  • Job chaining

Cons

  • User interface was clunky
  • Upgrades are not particularly easy

Return on Investment

  • Hours of server operations given over to end-users.
  • Single pipelines for job plan execution reduced the operational overhead.

Automic automation, Mainframe to Microservice

Incentivized
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Broadcom Automic Automation we use for batch job automation. Customer has numerous automation problem such as multiple job dependencies where one job has to finish successfully to start the other job. Automic automation capabilities are fantastic to address this kind of requirements. We use automic to execute 1 Million jobs per month. Scheduling such a high scale of jobs was not an easy task. Automic is handling such a huge load easily whithout any glitch. User interface is very intuitive support easily for batch job monitoring team and automic administrator.

Pros

  • Batch Job of complex work load across platforms ERP system , Business Apps, Mainframe to Microservices
  • Digital business automation , accelerate the integration of big data and
  • Oracle automation, increase visibility and control on oracle EBS processing
  • Self Service automation, Simplify business service across the multi-cloud
  • Site reliability automation, enhances monitoring and correlation with intelligent recommendations and auto - remediation

Cons

  • Broadcom Automic Automation as SAAS service , It is available on containers but it should be full SAAS as many of customers are looking full SAAS of Automic
  • FTP Solution for file transfer this capability is lacking with product, as of now only agent to agent file can be transferred, there should should be FTM management function available to handle files from out side of data center.
  • UI enhancement , looks older view of dashboard UI need more advance dashboarding capability

Most Important Features

  • Hardware independent and built-in high availability provides active-active mode of operations
  • Multi tenancy and cloud hosting and supports containers
  • Unlimited scalability of jobs, No limitation of jobs
  • Built-in data base so no need extra license
  • Great depth of coverage from Mainframe to Microservice , one platform can server all automation requirements

Return on Investment

  • Broadcom Automic Automation has helped many of client to reduce 50% of cost on batch job automation
  • Self-service feature has helped to optimized the L1 task, almost 50% reduction on resources
  • Consolidation of multiple island of tools in to one platform which has increased automation capability and visibility

Other Software Used

Broadcom Unified Infrastructure Management, DX Application Performance Management, DX Spectrum

Keep calm and Autom(ate|ic) IT

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

  • 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)

Cons

  • Support. Many companies, at least in Europe, now get support from resellers.
  • The user interface is actually not well suited for non-technical users.

Most Important Features

  • Stability
  • Performance
  • Large number of interfaces

Return on Investment

  • Positive: Elimination of automation silos