Redwood Workload AutomationFormerly RunMyJobs
Redwood Workload Automation
Redwood Workload Automation
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What is Redwood Workload Automation?
Redwood Business Process Automation is a workload automation and job scheduling solution designed for and delivered via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). It transforms the digital enterprise with scalability and integration with all technologies in the modern enterprise. Redwood unifies workflows across on-premises,...
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What is Redwood Workload Automation?
Redwood Business Process Automation is a workload automation and job scheduling solution designed for and
delivered via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). It transforms the digital
enterprise with scalability and integration with all
technologies in the modern enterprise. Redwood unifies workflows across
on-premises, private, hybrid and public cloud environments. It bridges gaps in
complex processes that function between mainframe, distributed, virtual and
cloud resources. Clients use Redwood to create intelligent process flows that
support diverse IT processes for business including managed file transfer,
hybrid cloud automation, complex data management, and DevOps. Redwood enables people to focus on innovation instead of daily management of repeated
processes.
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Redwood Workload Automation Competitors
- Control-M
- CA Workload Automation
- IBM Workload Automation
- ActiveBatch Workload Automation
- Stonebranch
- Automic One Automation Platform (formerly CA Automic Automation Platform)
Redwood Workload Automation Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Countries | Global |
Supported Languages | English, Dutch, German, French, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Greek, Estonian, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuania, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese |
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The most common users of Redwood Workload Automation are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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July 27, 2021
Redwood BPA at BRG Sports
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Redwood to run and monitor our batch processing in SAP as well as some external processes. It's not only helped us automate and streamline all of that, but it also helped reduce overall runtime for several important long-running processes.
- It allows us to run tasks in parallel, unlike the standard scheduler in SAP.
- We are able to trigger processes based on external events, like the arrival of a file
- It can let us know when processes have failed so that we don't need to actively monitor the batch cycle.
- It can also notify when a process has been completed successfully...users can be immediately made aware when one of their important tasks has finished.
- You can access the system securely from any device that has a browser, so you don't need to be in the office in order to check things.
- I don't have an answer here. The way it is, the system is easy to use and does exactly what we need.
May 06, 2021
Automation is the Future!
We used Redwood Business Process Automation in the month-end closing process. It is used in the technical and accounting close process. We use it globally, for all our company codes.
- standardizes activities
- less dependency on manual intervention
- redeploy employees in more added value activities
- increases quality
- more flexibility on changes
- make design more user friendly
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
RunMyJobs is being used across all of IT to provide a centralized point of processing, monitoring, and alerting for our business processes running on Windows Servers, AS/400 (iSeries), and Linux platforms, as well as direct JDBC connections to databases. Before implementation, processes were scheduled in various independent areas, such as windows task scheduler, with no alerting and no visibility for an operations team to monitor. In addition, before RMJ, cross-platform processes just had to be scheduled in good faith that prerequisites finished on time and successfully. RMJ solves that issue as well.
- Upgrades are fast and can be done in a "lights-out" manner
- The ability to organize functions into applications is very helpful
- Events such as a file watcher to kick off a process when a file is detected are done very well
- The documentation is lacking severely, many times even leading to a suggestion of paying for professional services to figure out processes. Also not updating documentation when a new release makes the old documentation obsolete.
- AS400/iSeries has been a constant battle since inception, once an update fixes one thing, another seems to break within the AS400/iSeries space, and sometimes the fixes don't actually fix the issue. Over time now this has gotten much beter.
- Allowing an issue to go back and forth within a ticket countless times (sometimes over 40 responses) without just getting everyone together on a meeting. Update - this has gotten much better with time.
- Communication needs a lot of improvement. I have had to reach out to support just to get release notes when a new release is made available.
- The ability to get accurate counts of historical process runs is limited currently to 35 days and since you are billed for each process run in all environments, not just Production, this limits accountability in historical billing inquiries.
May 01, 2021
Perfect tool for SAP batch job automation
Redwood Business Process Automation is the key [tool] almost all the jobs were scheduled through it, its very ease and [time-saving] process to automate and to get alert in case of any job failure. We can also configure to receive long running job alerts. Dependency job can be triggered by setting wait event, and we have the option to schedule a job in a particular time frame and after a particular dependent job[,] all the complex process can be executed from redwood be following few easy steps.
- Less time-consuming.
- Easy alert configuration.
- Holding all system jobs is very quick in case of any activity.
- [Cannot] copy past a job chain.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using Redwood Business Process Automation across the entire company. It's only being used and administrated from our SAP Basis department, but from here - we are handling about 100.000 SAP Batch executions per day, touching every single area of a retail company, from regular housekeeping, stock replenishment, order management[,] etc. On top of that, we are also using it to run Windows CMD script, and triggering various events on Business Objects. The biggest benefit [...] is the complexity you are able to provide - which we have found no other tool that can do.
- Complexity and dependencies, yet simplistic
- Automation
- User-friendly
- High capacity systems
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We started down the Redwood RunMyJobs path to solve some fundamental issues including intelligent job scheduling, automated daylight saving time adjustment, and greater visibility into the performance of the scheduled jobs. The primary focus was to automate the jobs inside of the ERP system, but we quickly realized the capabilities to work inside of data extract jobs and SQL. The job owners now have access to stop, start, and pause the jobs they are responsible for and it has moved the administration from a single resource into empowering the base.
- Visibility into scheduled jobs for job owners
- Intelligent scheduling based on file creation or job completion
- Time adjustments including time zones and daylight saving time
- Migration from legacy solution to Redwood Business Process Automation is manual
April 15, 2021
Stop wasting time and money, go with the best.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Redwood to handle all of our batch scheduling need[s] across several environmental landscapes. We are a global company and virtually every SAP job that we run, runs through Redwood - as well as a multitude of file transfers to and from vendors as well as to and from internal users. Using Redwood gives us a centralized location to do all this without having to have several different scheduling tools. It also means that we don't have to have several teams to manage the scheduling, which results in not only cost savings made from eliminating the old antiquated software, but also the savings that come from streamlining your organization once the old software has been removed.
- SAP Batch Scheduling - This is THE BEST tool for triggering SAP jobs, bar none.
- User management- Other scheduling tools make it much more difficult to manage user access. Redwood user access management is a breeze and take less than half the time it take in other products.
- Scheduling Flexibility- The ease with which you can make custom time windows with Redwood is one of my favorite pluses. You can build as simple or as complex of a time window as you need to with Redwood.
- Support- The support that you get from Redwood is in my opinion the best in the world. I have dealt with all the big name players in IT and they all pale in comparison to Redwood. You will never feel like you are in it alone with the best support in the world right at your fingertips.
- I get asked what improvements can be made and honestly I think its a perfect tool. It is the best scheduling tool I have used and I have been in the business for 25 years. If there were any improvements to be made, chances are the development team is already working on them before I even knew I wanted it.
October 19, 2020
RunMyJobs offers a wide range of capabilities and integrates with a wide range of applications
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use RunMyJobs to choreograph multiple back-end applications in order to provide streamlined end-to-end processes running 'round the clock. It is quite capable of handling SAP along with our multiple middleware applications.
I'm more of a user than an administrator, but I have worked with our admins during scheduling and troubleshooting and am impressed by the versatility it offers. We have job chains full of dependencies and RMJ provides all the flexibility we need.
I'm more of a user than an administrator, but I have worked with our admins during scheduling and troubleshooting and am impressed by the versatility it offers. We have job chains full of dependencies and RMJ provides all the flexibility we need.
- Reporting capabilities.
- Capable of tying in multiple applications into job chains.
- Mature product.
- I can't think of anything.
August 27, 2020
My take on RunMyJobs
I manage SAP job scheduling for my company. This would include end to end management like scheduling, reporting, and taking care of the underlying infrastructure. The main problem I run into when using Redwood's RunMyJobs is when it comes to suspending jobs during maintenance or upgrades. A lot of the time users ask me to get a list of jobs running during a particular time window and there are no early reporting tools available.
- Setting up jobs is easy.
- Importing jobs from SAP
- Running OS commands or OS scripts
- Reporting based on different selection criteria
- Job delay and failure notifications
August 14, 2020
RMJ support
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
RMJ is used to schedule jobs on multiple platforms. It is being used by multiple departments. It was chosen as a resolution to multiple departments individually scheduling their jobs. Some of these jobs are interdependent . RMJ provided a unified way to run, monitor and track these jobs.
- Tracking job status.
- Reporting on jobs status.
- Alerting of status.
- Support documentation - Some basic information not found and some is outdated.
- Availability of support - Slow to respond.
- Knowledge of initial support. Basic problems have to be forwarded to next level support.