Item: Redwood Workload Automation
Rating: 8
Author: Peter Berlin

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

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Support documentation - Some basic information not found and some is outdated.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.

Return on Investment

Centralized monitoring of jobs.
Effective alert monitoring.

Support Rating

Poor documentation, outdated documentation. Slow turnaround. Lack of knowledge - not much is handled by 1-level support, inability to handle basic questions, problems have to be forwarded to 2-level support.

Key Insights

Do you think Redwood Workload Automation delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Redwood Workload Automation's feature set?

Yes

Did Redwood Workload Automation live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Redwood Workload Automation go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Redwood Workload Automation again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

RunMyJobs is well suited in organizations where there are multiple department requiring jobs and job information to be shared.

RMJ support

Overall Satisfaction with RunMyJobs