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CA Workload Automation

Score7.4 out of 10

13 Reviews and Ratings

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What is CA Workload Automation?

As the name may suggest, CA Workload Automation is CA Technologies workload automation offering.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features CA Workload Automation has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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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

  • Application integration

    Integration with a broad range of enterprise applications

    Category average: 8.4

  • Analysis and visualization

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

    Category average: 8.2

Reviews

What users are saying about CA Workload Automation.
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CA Workload Automation and Workload Manager GUI

Incentivized
Verified User
Technician in Engineering (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use CA Workload Automation in out environment. We use it to run peoplesoft jobs on multiple platforms and this product is great and easy to use. We created daily reports to account for all jobs for 1 year and their return codes. The code to create jobs is straight forward and easy to code. It does not require any special programming background. We are using this product now and I would Highly recommend it with its' CA Workload Automation to monitor all jobs thru a GUI. We do dataset triggering, file transfers, cross platform job running and monitoring. Each platform that is non-ibm mainframe is monitored thru an agent that is capable of recovering scheduling status if there is a network outage and continue with its schedule.

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.

Cons

  • This product is great for what we use it for, no issues

Return on Investment

  • We run multiple agencies and have had no issues that this product could not correct easily.

Usability

Great product for managing batch jobs!

Incentivized
Krishnamurthy Venkateshappa
Sr Analyst in Information Technology at Northwell (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • Doesn't sort out jobs within the box.
  • Drag and drop feature will help in expediting Autosys job development.

Return on Investment

  • Reduces effort of support analysts in monitoring batch jobs.
  • Helps in quickly fixing and restarting jobs.
  • Notification feature helps in quickly attending to the problem and fixing it.

Usability

Other Software Used

Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian Jira Align (formerly AgileCraft)

Job Scheduling software orchestrates and automates business processes and tasks from a single point of view.

Incentivized
Arnab MukherjeeView profile
ITSM and Project Management Consultant in Information Technology at Kyra Solutions, Inc. (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Workload can be scheduled across different Platforms.
  • Support for Hadoop. Integration with Informatica Dataware house application.
  • The latest version has a web interface which is very impressive.
  • Low overheads from administration standpoint.

Cons

  • Better Reporting and Troubleshooting of why some jobs are failing.

Return on Investment

  • Easier to manage and alert on Workload.
  • Greater visibility on all application and database jobs running on different OS and databases.

Other Software Used

CA Spectrum, SolarWinds Log & Event Manager, CA Service Desk Manager, Smartsheet

CA Workload Automation Review

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

Pros

  • Instrumentation of backend servers.
  • Analyzing the performance of these servers.
  • Helping users with network utilization, CPU utilization details, etc.

Cons

  • Monitoring of front-end websites.
  • More utilization insights if possible.
  • Customer service via chat in the future if possible.

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.

Alternatives Considered

Catchpoint and Dynatrace

Other Software Used

Dynatrace, Catchpoint, Micro Focus LoadRunner (formerly HP LoadRunner)

CA Workload Automation is reliable and easy to use

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • CA Workload Automation manages and customizes job scheduling very well.
  • CA Workload Automation is very easy to learn and start using. The GUI design is very simple and makes it easy for first time users to setup their jobs, parameters and conditions.
  • CA Workload Automation supports the major operating systems, Oracle applications and supports growing volume of workloads quite well.
  • CA Workload Automation reduces time to process workloads and flexible to support multiple environments which is critical for testing, maintenance and operations in for any Technology group.

Cons

  • Even though the CA Workload Automation GUI is simple and easy to use, it looks outdated and has limited features such as customizing dashboards and saving particular user settings.
  • CA Workload Automation lacks performance and is often slow to edit jobs or to refresh screens and sometimes requires admin to restart service agents for background processes.
  • I would like to see CA Workload Automation in one screen with all the information the user wants to see and have this customized and saved for every user. Rather than having to build a view and search criteria for every new job that is added.
  • I would like a feature or configuration that you can setup different types of notifications for job failures such as text message with different levels of severity.

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Alternatives Considered

BMC, Tidal, crontab and ACCE