Automic Automation Pros and Cons

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Automic Automation on windows is not stable.

JWP always results in short dumps.

In-built system monitoring for agents will be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

GIT integration and Database indexes need to be improved.

short dumps are causing issues.

JWP and UI handling to be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Many features out-of-the-box and interfaces Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The new web-based user interface looks great but has still some disadvantages compared to the Java-based UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The versatility and the support of legacy software (SAP, zSeries, etc.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The complex UI and the hard-to-understand approach of some solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.