# Automic Automation Reviews **Vendor:** Broadcom **Category:** [Workload Automation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/workload-automation) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 15 ## About Automic Automation Automic Automation gives you the agility, speed, visibility and scalability needed to respond to the constantly changing technology landscape. It centrally manages and automates the execution of business processes end-to-end; across mainframe, cloud and hybrid environments in a way that never stops even when doing an upgrade to the next version. ## Automic Automation Reviews ### 1. UC4/AUTOMIC Experience as a USER **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Automic Automation?** UC4 is widely used by many customers from past many years due to its ease of understanding and not much complexity. Many scripting languages is a plus point. **What do you dislike about Automic Automation?** There is not much to dislike about the Tool, but many a times felt and received feedback also about having troubles in customer support. AUTOMIC team needs to address their customer problems a bit faster and on priority. **What problems is Automic Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?** Many customers have lots of jobs running in their PROD as well as non-prod environments. For BASIS team it was getting hard to monitor business and finance related jobs all time. AUTOMIC made it quite easier not only in monitoring the jobs but also its alerts mechanism is a plus point. Getting alerts for every failed or long running jobs helped a lot in preventing business outages. ### 2. Smart services automation with CA Automic **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alfredo C. | devOps engineer, Education Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Automic Automation?** An easy interface for building an automation script using blocks to create a workflow with the basic programming methods: if/else, foreach, et cetera, in which it is possible to insert more complex scripts, both by using other pre-established blocks and by scripting from scratch. The ability to interface on both Windows and UNIX systems. A powerful and complete scripting language with thousands of ready-made blocks of code. A marketplace, managed by the manufacturer, with hundreds of plug-ins and ready-made workflows. The software is perfectly integrated to manage and automate dozens of applications on the market: Apache, Tomcat, Remedy, VMWare, SAP, MySql, Jenkins, Office365, NetScaler, Siebel, SSH, Oracle. The program scales smoothly from one server to an entire farm. The manufacturer maintains a forum on which you can ask for help, there is always someone available to help you out. The manufacturer offers many free courses and good platforms to obtain certifications on its website. **What do you dislike about Automic Automation?** The debugger could be more analytical and descriptive. Dashboard building features should allow for more flexibility and options. Some processes could be more intuitive and above all troubleshooting could be more guided. The web interface suffers from any network downtime, in times of great crowding it is a bit slow. **Recommendations to others considering Automic Automation:** You need to be familiar with the operation of Windows servers (including cmd and Powershell) and Unix servers (settings and shell commands). **What problems is Automic Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Automic we manage the entire flow of updating, restarting and cloning a server farm, without differences between windows and unix server. With the Dashboards created in Automic we build applications to monitor the status of other applications, with probes that allow us to check their operation 24 hours a day, seven days a week. ### 3. IT workload automation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Automic Automation?** Easy to develop. Can integrate with APIs. E2E orchestration. A big community of experts in Europe. SLO and SLM for alert management. Analytics is easy to use. **What do you dislike about Automic Automation?** Automic Automation on windows is not stable. JWP always results in short dumps. In-built system monitoring for agents will be helpful. **What problems is Automic Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?** Job scheduling, API integrations, Business monitoring and alerting. Analytics is helpful to manage. Retail replenishment is integrated and productivity is improved from 60 to 96% accuracy and issues are raised in-time. ### 4. Automation consultant and operator **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Automic Automation?** Can connect to multiple OSs and different platforms? extensive Automic\UC4 scripting capability to Automate the process. When compared with other tools, licenses and costs are very competitive. **What do you dislike about Automic Automation?** GIT integration and Database indexes need to be improved. short dumps are causing issues. JWP and UI handling to be improved. **Recommendations to others considering Automic Automation:** One tool to Automate SAP, NON-SAP. **What problems is Automic Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better scripting. E2E integration. API Integration. Alerting, SLOs, SLAs are easier to maintain. Productivity is increased from 55 to 96%. ### 5. Having work experience of about 10+ years in Automic Automation tool and in Workload automation. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sridhar K. | SSE, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Automic Automation?** The workflow editor is user-friendly and flexible to build complex designs. The scheduling concept is straightforward to understand. And It is easy to implement. **What do you dislike about Automic Automation?** If an object in a workflow has a Runtime parameter, Sync, Earliest Start Time, we are unable to see it easily. We need to desperately open the object to view that. Instead, a small icon with tooltip as the actual info to represent each parameter will be helpful. **Recommendations to others considering Automic Automation:** Hey, it's an all-in-one Application for your Business needs. Its versatile and friendly User Interface makes your Administration, Deployment, Build, Operations task easier. **What problems is Automic Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are automating the workload across several domains like Manufacturing, Logistics, Retail, Travel, etc. We have a centralized team to monitor the flow and error. We are providing DABR Service. ### 6. Very good platform for a wide range of applications **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Automic Automation?** Many features out-of-the-box and interfaces **What do you dislike about Automic Automation?** The new web-based user interface looks great but has still some disadvantages compared to the Java-based UI **What problems is Automic Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it as a Workload and Integration Platform for different applications on Linux, Solaris, AIX, Windows and SAP. Besides that it is the "engine" for our software-defined infrastructure (SDI) solution. ### 7. One of the best All-Purpose-Automation-Tools **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Automic Automation?** The versatility and the support of legacy software (SAP, zSeries, etc.) **What do you dislike about Automic Automation?** The complex UI and the hard-to-understand approach of some solutions **What problems is Automic Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?** End-of-day process Automation; deployment automation; business process automation ### 8. Innovative ITPA-Automic tool review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandhya A. | Senior Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Automic Automation?** 1. Using automic we can easily schedule and deploy the workflows. 2. Automic Automation lets you manage complex workflows that span across multiple technologies. 3. Using Automic one can easily monitor,build and test the workflows 4. Automic is used for back-end operation 5. Automic is flexible tool for SAP application. 6. Automic is UC4 scripting language. 7. Using Automic developer can easily perform email operations. 8. The processing time of the workflows is less in automic when compared to other RPA tools. **What do you dislike about Automic Automation?** 1. Without API and objects created specifically for particular application you cannot establish the connection to third party tool or application 2. Without relevant details about the T-code like Table or BAPI or Function module we will be unable to perform SAP application 3. Limitations in files that can be interpreted by automic that is unable to read or extract data from pdf etc. 4. Logs are to be constantly removed from AE server to keep the automation engine healthy. 5. Automic tool is costlier to use. 6. When any agent becomes inactive then the object belonging to the that specific agent will also be inactive state. In simple words while executing the workflows containing the object will be on hold state. **Recommendations to others considering Automic Automation:** Automic is the best for back-end operation. **What problems is Automic Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Number of changes made to database is negligible compared to changes made in front end as Automic is ITPA tool it is much reliable. 2. Automated SAP that is monitoring and reporting tasks. ### 9. Best Tool for ITPA **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sowmya G. | Senior Software Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Automic Automation?** With the different jobs present, interaction between operating systems is easy. The way in which daily iterative tasks are configured is extremely simple. The online document provided by CA technologies is just great. There is a description of every object present in the Automic tool so that you can have hands on with the tool. Mostly useful to read the backend tables of SAP **What do you dislike about Automic Automation?** The server interface is little hard to use in the beginning. It is slow sometimes that the technician has no idea what is happening. Sometimes its hard to find the error because it will not stop execution even if one job fails in the whole workflow. We need to capture everything from the last report as we could not able to see the user interface **Recommendations to others considering Automic Automation:** Best Tool for ITPA. It requires UC$ coding language, people who are interested in coding can use this Automation Tools. Mostly used to process the Backend automation. Useful for scheduling purposes. **What problems is Automic Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?** CA Automic workload is very flexible for doing repetitive tasks. I worked mostly with the SAP BASIS works. The scheduling is very promising. Also working with SAP and the webservices which has API's is more flexible as we have tables. We can create utilities like creating variant if we need to create lot of times. Inbuilt variables and mail activities can be used as per our ease. if we want to run the job after some period of time, inbuilt jobs and options are useful. ### 10. Friendly automic tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Automic Automation?** 1.We can easily track the errors. 2. We can easily connect to SAP ,UNIX,Windows objects. 3. We can easily monitor mails. 4. We can easily perform CRUD operations on SQL and DB2 database. 5. . Automic is the best for back end automation. **What do you dislike about Automic Automation?** 1. AE servers need to be cleaned up on regular basis otherwise automic will be hanged. 2. We can't automate the GUI of any Web Applications. 3. When we want to connect to any specific applications we only need to use the predefined objects which are available in automic, in case the object is not present we cannot automate the application. **Recommendations to others considering Automic Automation:** Automic is the best tool for back-end operations. **What problems is Automic Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Execution time is less for complex workflows. 2 .We can easily automate the service now using REST and SOAP API's. 3. Writing bulk data to excel consumes less time 4. Scheduling & deployment of complex bots is very easy. 5. We can easily read and modify the objects in automic. ### 11. Awesome journey with CA automic workload automation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sravani K. | Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Automic Automation?** The UI of automic is more attractive and effective to use for valuable productivity. The way of creating the flows are easy and will prove our talent. **What do you dislike about Automic Automation?** The up-gradation of automic is effecting the slowness of the platform which makes us irritate regarding performance. There are no proper ways of calling API which is not properly established within the automic which is one negative point found from the CA automic workload automation. **Recommendations to others considering Automic Automation:** I am happy to recommend my friends which give the best future ahead with a great experience. **What problems is Automic Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?** The platform is more capable of handling less load as compare with more which will provide the best experience throughout the journey with automic workload automation. ### 12. Automic - ITPA **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shreyash R. | Senior Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Automic Automation?** Automic is an Information Technology Process Automation tool. Which is completely different than the RPA. It is advantageous as it does not depend on the UI for automation purpose. Instead it uses RFC calls for data extraction and processing. **What do you dislike about Automic Automation?** It can not be integrated just like that with any application and requires the web service calls to be available for the same. The Thick Client looked like a legacy application, but now we have Web interface for the same. Should be interesting to work with. **Recommendations to others considering Automic Automation:** Best tool when SAP is considered. Coding standards and naming conventions to be kept in mind while developing. This will ensure readability. The guide must be read and understood clearly before development in order to understand the capabilities and actual potential of Automic. **What problems is Automic Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?** SAP Automation is very very powerful and results are satisfying. The workflows were very much readable in V11, but in V12 the Web Client seems to be little confusing. ### 13. IT Automation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pankaj D. | Associate, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Automic Automation?** Automic has always been known for their industry-leading and innovative capabilities in scheduling applications across enterprises. Automic continues this tradition. It enables connectivity to any application, databases, operating system and capable to support the growing business. It is capable to integrate all business applications effectively. Compared to other scheduling tools available its immense feature such as forecasting, reporting, error detection and correction, audit and Load balancing make it more powerful and reliable. **What do you dislike about Automic Automation?** The latest version brought some key feature however still those are still not user friendly like adding and creating new dashboard, jobs views and report view are still not user friendly and easy readable. **Recommendations to others considering Automic Automation:** I would recommend the software quality and the best way to get automated your process and many connected system under one software in single flow. **What problems is Automic Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?** Applications that utilize the UC4 scheduling service benefit from a single point of control for administration and automation of operator activities to ensure a more consistent and reliable operations. This service offers better control for job processing across multiple ITS managed applications and platform in a distributed environment ### 14. Great job scheduling product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Automic Automation?** First, our configuration allows for the application to be in an active/passive state so that immediately when the active instance fails the passive instance takes over. We have over a thousand unique jobs configured to run. As with the CA7 product, the jobs can be configured to be scheduled based upon time/date parameters similar to cron or triggered based upon statuses of other jobs (or a mixture of the two). WCC is the UI to configure jobs; there is a lot of functionality to assist the creation and modification of jobs. **What do you dislike about Automic Automation?** On occasion, a job does not kill completely through the entire system(s). Assume access is available, it just takes killing the job on the remote system- this is rare and happens usually when the job is in a very bad state. **Recommendations to others considering Automic Automation:** For commands on the server, create aliases to simplify the actions. There are a lot of features; make sure you take the time to know them all so they can be implemented. **What problems is Automic Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centrally managed job scheduler and manager providing the ability to control changes throughout the enterprise. ### 15. Automation of your workflows **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Automic Automation?** - Easy view of all jobs at once in a workflow - with a option to zoom in and zoom out. -Schduling jobs and workflows. -- Setting up external dependencies --Transport case to move jobs across environments **What do you dislike about Automic Automation?** -- External dependencies handling to export jobs sometime tricky. --CA support time for P1 is 4 hours- however it varies with support level. - **What problems is Automic Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?** All our data processing jobs are processed via automic. ## Automic Automation Discussions - [What is the Roadmap for 2022?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-roadmap-for-2022) - 1 upvote - [View Automic Automation pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/automic-automation/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-17+04%3A51%3A53+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=fbf96a29-3d9f-4029-9a49-d9398e1ea424&secure%5Btoken%5D=2363d11532ec9ef7749df677a8a320423c370501219bb6114a4d1b94ec1fb81d&format=llm_user) ## Automic Automation Features **Automation** - Workload Processing - Scalability - Intelligent Automation **Administration** - Administration Console - Workflow Management - IT Issue Identification - Proactive Workflow - Error Alerts - Service Management **Functionality** - Job Scheduling - API / Integrations - Integrations **Agentic AI - Workload Automation** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top Automic Automation Alternatives - [Control-M](https://www.g2.com/products/control-m/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (148 reviews) - [JAMS](https://www.g2.com/products/jams-software-llc-jams/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (253 reviews) - [ActiveBatch](https://www.g2.com/products/activebatch/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (227 reviews)