CA Workload Automation Reviews & Insights

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.

ease of use and understanding how it works in order to create testing scenarios duplicate of production environments.

CA Workload Automation is used schedule batch jobs across ERP applications (FSCM, HCM, EPM). It's used by the finance, supply chain, and HR departments. It is a one stop for reviewing all batch job's statuses and manage from the application. These days we are also using Autosys to invoice OIC integrations and add dependencies with existing jobs. Autosys is a great tool to work with!

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.

It is currently being used across a department with access to a certain set of applications and is used to see the performance of the servers.

Suitable for utilization of backend servers, not currently perfectly suitable for front-end performance monitoring.

We are using this application to manage our workload (and schedule jobs) for our Back Office Operations. Jobs have been scheduled, which includes shell scripts, db procedures, batch jobs, integration with Informatica and Big Data Hadoop. Views and alerts have been setup for our NOC to monitor these jobs 24/7. Currently being used by IT Operations and Application Team.

Good for monitoring in a heterogeneous environment, and well suited for cross platform support. Easy to upgrade and migrate data. There is less overhead to manage the application.

CA Workload Automation is being across our entire Technology department to manage the operations of multiple applications of multiple environments. CA Workload Automation helps the business by reducing job failures, increases transparency into applications and the issues that it creates and most importantly, helps the firm by meeting SLA requirements more consistently.

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.