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EMA RADAR for WorkloadAutomation (WLA): Q4 2019An Enterprise Management Associates Radar ReportWritten by Dan TwingQ4 2019
VENDOR PROFILE: 932010089.362 EMA RADAR FOR WORKLOAD AUTOMATION (WLA): Q4 2019 2019 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. www.enterprisemanagement.com57.05CA Technologies, a Broadcom company with theproduct Automic Automation, is once again a ValueLeader. Broadcom acquired CA Technologies inNovember 2018, coming close on the back of CA’sacquisition of Automic in 2017. Automic Automationremains the strategic WLA product for Broadcom.While all CA and Automic products continue tobe supported, Automic Automation v12.3 is theonly Broadcom WLA product reviewed in thisreport. Automic Automation provides automationfor complex workloads across platforms, ERPsystems, and business apps from mainframe tomicroservices and serverless in both cloud andon-premises. Automic Automation provides selfservice automation with service catalog integrations(e.g., ServiceNow) and automation-as-codefacilities for automation and orchestration. Theproduct also simplifies automation for big data andoffers self-services for data scientists to scale withstrong governance on data flows. The Automationteam has remained focused in the wake of severalacquisitions. They have modernized the UI ofseveral existing CA products and integrated themsuccessfully into the Automic platform to leveragebroader IT systems integrations and enable use ofother automation modules, including continuousdelivery and AIOps.
VENDOR PROFILE: BROADCOMCA Technologies was founded in 1976 and has a long historyin Workload Automation, primarily through acquisition. Its latestacquisition was Automic, with prior acquisitions including AutoSysWorkload Automation, ESP dSeries Workload Automation fordistributed platforms, CA Workload Automation CA 7 Edition, andCA Workload Automation ESP Edition for mainframe environments.CA Workload Automation iDash provides predictive analytics,forecasting, and reporting. Following the acquisition of Automic,CA established an Automation line of business. Going forward, thechoice of workload automation technology will be determined on aclient-by-client basis—with Automic Automation as the automationproduct for new customers. The other WLA products will continue tobe developed in line with customer-committed roadmaps.ARCHITECTURECA Technologies’ integrated automation platform spans physical,virtual, and cloud computing in supporting end-to-end business andIT workflows that cross applications. By managing and abstractingthe complex interdependencies that increasingly exist in moderndata centers, Automic Automation consolidates and simplifies ITadministration. Automic Automation automates IT processes thattraditionally require multiple areas or disciplines of automation. Thisfunctionality reduces integration and interface costs by avoidingthe usual issues that occur when multiple tools must be used toautomate one process.3 EMA RADAR FOR WORKLOAD AUTOMATION (WLA): Q4 2019 2019 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. www.enterprisemanagement.comAutomic Automation
VENDOR PROFILE: BROADCOMAutomic Automation’s active-active architecture ishighly scalable, and ensures high availability acrosshigh volumes of endpoints. The centralized automationengine can be distributed in active-active mode acrossany number of CPUs and physical servers. Third-partytools are not required. With deep multitenant capability,Automic Automation can handle multiple end customers,regardless of whether they are internal (multipledepartments or business units) or external users. Allscheduling data, including a full audit trail, is stored in thebackend Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, orDB2 database. Updates can be accomplished with zerodowntime, allowing for continuous operations without theneed for a maintenance window. Integrated file transferensures point-to-point, timely, accurate, and secureinformation transfer. There is no need for additionalthird-party-managed FTP products.Multi-Cloud AutomationSeparate automations can be connected across clouds,with no negative impact on security.Massively ScalableThe software can scale up to 100M jobs per instance and100k agents. Software clustering promises dependabilityfor users, without requiring particular, fault-toleranthardware.KEY FEATURES SUMMARYGovernance and ComplianceUsers are given comprehensive auditing and control ofany automated processing and user activities, whichkeep processes in compliance with company policies.Zero Downtime UpgradesWith zero downtime upgrades, users will not need amaintenance window. There will not be any downtimewhen businesses install new versions or patches.4Automation as CodeDevelopers are able to directly code automation artifactswithout difficulty, and DevOps teams can easily promotethose artifacts throughout the testing process.Mainframe to MicroservicesSupport is offered for mainframe, distributed cloud, andvirtual environments, which are combined with a varietyof certifications for business applications.Infrastructure ManagementDevOps teams are able to create, deploy, and runapplications simply, with instant provisioning anddeprovisioning as part of the continuous deliveryworkflows, infrastructure as code, or preapprovedself-help runbooks.Integrations MarketplaceThe marketplace offers templates and add-ons toexpand automation capabilities, letting users solve morebusiness challenges.Lifecycle ManagementAutomation policies across development, test, andproduction environments and teams are easily promoted. EMA RADAR FOR WORKLOAD AUTOMATION (WLA): Q4 2019 2019 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. www.enterprisemanagement.comAPI-DrivenOpen APIs integrate tools and applications throughoutthe business into one single, inclusive automationstrategy.
VENDOR PROFILE: BROADCOMEVALUATION SUMMARYARCHITECTURE & INTEGRATIONDEPLOYMENT & ADMINISTRATIONARCHITECTUREEASE OF DEPLOYMENTBusiness FocusOutstandingScalabilityOutstandingDynamic Workload PlacementOutstandingStrong readth of Platform SupportB(incl. agentless)OutstandingCustomer SupportStrong readth of Application &BDatabase SupportOutstandingProfessional ServicesOutstandingDisaster ProtectionOutstandingContainerized WorkloadsStrongContainer DeploymentLimitedDeployment Time/EffortStrongConversion FacilitiesStrongJob Discovery & ImportOutstandingStaff TrainingSUPPORT AND SERVICESEASE OF ADMINISTRATION5Console Ease of UseOutstandingUpgrade ProcessOutstandingTest EnvironmentsOutstandingComprehensive APIOutstandingAutomation of ManagementOutstandingCloud IntegrationOutstandingCMDB IntegrationSolidITPA IntegrationStrongCapacity Management IntegrationOutstandingMFT IntegrationOutstandingBig Data IntegrationSolidSocial Media IntegrationLimitedHeterogeneity Across EnvironmentsOutstandingJobs-as-CodeOutstanding EMA RADAR FOR WORKLOAD AUTOMATION (WLA): Q4 2019 2019 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. BILITY
VENDOR PROFILE: BROADCOMEVALUATION SUMMARYCOST ADVANTAGEFUNCTIONALITYFEATURESSolidAutomation Design FlexibilityOutstandingPricing Scenarios End-to-End MonitoringOutstandingSaaS AvailabilityNoneCompliance vice PortalOutstandingForecasting, Analytics & ReportingVENDOR ndingFinancial StrengthOutstandingAlertingStrongResearch & hannelStrongWhat-If ScenariosStrongMarket CredibilityOutstandingConditional Logic & AutoRemediationOutstandingGeographic Business User FeaturesOutstandingHadoop SupportSolidRPA OrchestrationSolidEASE OF USE6 Flexibility of Licensing ModelSimplicity of GUIOutstandingSLA & Policy AwarenessStrongRoot Cause AnalysisStrongMobile Device SupportOutstandingLanguage SupportOutstandingAvailable Help ResourcesStrong EMA RADAR FOR WORKLOAD AUTOMATION (WLA): Q4 2019 2019 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. www.enterprisemanagement.com
VENDOR PROFILE: BROADCOMNUMBER OF CUSTOMERSCUSTOMER LOCATIONS 100 1000 Languages Available: English, French, and GermanFAVORITE FEATURES MENTIONEDIN CUSTOMER INTERVIEWS“ServiceCatalog integration is“Wethe alerting to beveryfinduseful.”very good!”“I like the visibility of whata job is doing and the statisticalhistory of that job.”“My favorite feature isAWI (Automic Web Interface)and the dashboards you cancreate, because AWI offersmore visibility in executionso customers can see forthemselves.”7 EMA RADAR FOR WORKLOAD AUTOMATION (WLA): Q4 2019 2019 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. www.enterprisemanagement.com“I am a scriptguy, yet I like thevisibility and historicalrecord you don’t get withscripts outside of a toollike this.”“Ease of use/ease of adoptionare my favorites. They lead to adoption bynon-technical and business users.”“I like the concept of rapidautomation agents and agents built onthe fly. The data you are processing isevolving and the structure is evolving,so the agent can evolve, too.”“We really like ReleaseAutomation!”
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CA Workload Automation ESP Edition for mainframe environments. CA Workload Automation iDash provides predictive analytics, forecasting, and reporting. Following the acquisition of Automic, CA established an Automation line of business. Going forward, the choice of workload automation tech
