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Redwood Workload Automation, also known as RunMyJobs, is a powerful tool that provides a centralized platform for scheduling and …
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What is Redwood RunMyJobs?
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…
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- Multi-platform scheduling (21)9.696%
- Central monitoring (21)9.494%
- Alerts and notifications (21)9.494%
- Logging (21)9.494%
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What is Redwood RunMyJobs?
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 RunMyJobs Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| 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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Control-M, CA Workload Automation, and IBM Workload Automation are common alternatives for Redwood RunMyJobs.
Reviewers rate Multi-platform scheduling and Analysis and visualization highest, with a score of 9.6.
The most common users of Redwood RunMyJobs are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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- Business Problems Solved
Redwood Workload Automation, also known as RunMyJobs, is a powerful tool that provides a centralized platform for scheduling and automating business processes across multiple platforms. Before implementing RunMyJobs, companies faced challenges with fragmented scheduling systems that lacked visibility and alerting capabilities. However, by using Redwood Workload Automation, organizations can now schedule cross-platform processes with confidence, ensuring that prerequisites are completed successfully and on time.
Large corporations have found great value in using Redwood Workload Automation to streamline their operations. It offers a user-friendly interface that eliminates the need for coding or scripting, making it accessible to a wide range of users. The ability to integrate with various programs and platforms further enhances its versatility. Redwood Workload Automation has become the go-to solution for automating financial transactions, report generation, batch processing, file transfers, and more.
The benefits of Redwood Workload Automation extend beyond automation itself. It provides centralized control and support for on-premises, hybrid, and pure cloud environments. This means that businesses can manage their tasks and jobs from different systems in one unified location. Moreover, Redwood Workload Automation supports load balancing and process priorities across multiple applications, enabling companies to optimize resource usage and reduce costs.
Overall, Redwood Workload Automation has received positive feedback from users who appreciate its ease of use, excellent customer support, and the ability to simplify complex workflows. It has proven to be a valuable tool for automating tasks and processes on multiple platforms while increasing efficiency and productivity for businesses of all sizes.
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July 27, 2021
Redwood BPA at BRG Sports
Score 10 out of 10
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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.
- Help us speed up long-running tasks
- Remove the need to actively monitor batch jobs
- Triggering jobs based on file arrivals
- We reduced our MRP cycle from around 12 hours down to approximately 3
- We were able to let end-users trigger specific month-end jobs without also having the ability to submit anything else.
- we are able to schedule jobs in much more flexible ways than SAP offers
- We've had no negative impact by using Redwood
Unsure. BRG was already using Redwood before I joined the team.
2
My manager and I are the main "users" of Redwood. We configure all tasks in Redwood on behalf of our end-users.
2
My manager and I are the ones who support the product. The product is VERY easy to use, so practically anyone could use it, but our internal policies limit who is allowed to create and schedule batch processes.
- Process runtime improvement
- better control over scheduling and configuring batch jobs
- Dependable operation
- triggering batch based on the arrival of a file
- being able to trigger a secondary process from within a running job rather then having to wait until after that running job finishes.
- scheduling jobs based on "odd" requirements...for example, every 3 hours during close week
- Unsure, nothing comes to mind
Score 7 out of 10
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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.
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- Scalability
- Alerting
56.66666666666667%
5.7
- An issue occurred when we ran out of "credits" much sooner than anticipated. Further investigation showed a process in a TEST environment that was scheduled to run every 15 minutes was accidentally submitted on a schedule twice (so 2 processes running every 15 minutes). At that time we didn't even have the ability to run a report to find the rogue process, the vendor had to run it for us. That lack of ability for the customer was one thing, but to be dinged for non-production is also a point of contention.
- Positively for the processes that report correctly, it has been a big benefit for our IT Operations team to have the centralized monitoring of our critical processes.
- The ability to have a centralized system for our operations team to monitor and receive alerts has been very beneficial.
I was not part of the decision making on choosing RunMyJobs, but my understanding on what made RMJ stand out was the fact that it is in the cloud, with no infrastructure support needed on our side, as well as a promise that you could schedule and monitor jobs within ServiceNow. We later found out the ServiceNow promise was not correct and still don't have a direct method as of this writing.
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Data Warehouse, Application Development, IT Operations, Server Engineering, Application Support
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It helps to have a broad understanding of IT functions for how we use runmyjobs, for instance, I know how to reboot a windows server via command line (although google will tell you as well), then to call an SSIS package on a SQL server, run a batch file, etc... With just that broad knowledge it makes it easier to understand the processes you have to support in the product. From there it is just repetition in the various aspects, such as the calendar functions, alerting, events, etc...
- Process Automation
- Monitoring
- Alerting
- Centralization
- Create ServiceNow incidents for the owning teams when a process fails.
- Schedule reboots for troublesome servers.
- Execute ServiceNow scheduled jobs via RMJ.
- Hopefully SFTP.
No
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- Product Features
- Product Usability
Being a redwood customer certainly helped, as well as the price for an enterprise scheduler in the cloud.
I think it would have been nice to have had some time to work through the tool, but I was trained while we were trying to implement, so it would be nice to have more time to get an overall understanding of the product before being live, but it all worked out.
- Third-party professional services
Redwood assisted in the implementation
No
I'm unaware of the premium support.
No
- File Watcher events
- Alerts for processes in certain states (error state mostly)
- Process chains that involve multiple steps
- The promotion of multiple objects from one environment to another can be a little cumbersome one at a time.
- Acknowledging multiple operator messages, if not from the same process can be a bit cumbersome.
No