Workload Automation (WLA) Software
Workload automation tools (also called WLA software, IT orchestration software or enterprise job scheduling software) allow businesses to schedule and automate the execution of business processes across different applications and platforms. +Show More
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ActiveBatch by Redwood |
Leader
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SOC 2 - Type 1
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MS Dynamics, Oracle PeopleSoft, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP NetWeaver
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ActiveBatch is a software platform for workload automation that enhances and streamlines job scheduling across enterprises:
- Pre-built connectors for tens of common enterprise software such as ERP, ETL, and CRM tools
- Low-code Super REST API Adapter connects servers, applications and services .
- Manage and automate critical processes from a single pane of glass.
- Customizable and proactive monitoring and alerting system to prevent job failures and delays. Each alert is deliverable in a variety of ways including email, SMS, Slack, JMS, Microsoft Message Queues, SNMP, Skype and more
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Number of case studies
1-5 case studies
Company's number of employees
400-1k employees
Company's social media followers
40k-50k followers
Total funding
$250-500m
# of funding rounds
1
Latest funding date
May 11, 2021
Last funding amount
$250-500m
Features
SOC
SOC 2 - Type 1
ISO security certifications
27001
Deployment
On-prem
Public cloud
ERP integrations
MS Dynamics
Oracle PeopleSoft SAP BusinessObjects SAP NetWeaver Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
1993
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RunMyJobs by Redwood |
Leader
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SOC 1 - Type 2, SOC 2 - Type 2
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Oracle PeopleSoft, Oracle JDE EnterpriseOne, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP BW, SAP CPI-DS, SAP Datasphere, SAP ERP S/4HANA, SAP IBP, SAP Industry Solutions, SAP Integration Suite
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RunMyJobs is a modern, purpose-built SaaS workload automation solution built for the cloud:
- Upgrades occur with one click, and get completed in minutes thanks to lightweight, automatically updated agents.
- Integrates with SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP BTP and customer's entire SAP environment (all SAP apps, systems, and instances) with a singular Secure Gateway.
- Single-tenant cloud architecture with zero-effort maintenance and guaranteed 99.95% uptime
- Unlimited systems connectivity with pre-build integrations and open REST API (on-prem or in cloud).
- Low-code graphical editor with extensive library of included templates and wizards.
- Real-time visibility and predictive SLA monitoring to get early warnings.
- Customizable alerts about process failures and automic self-recovery.
- A dedicated migration team.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Number of case studies
100-200 case studies
Company's number of employees
400-1k employees
Company's social media followers
40k-50k followers
Total funding
$250-500m
# of funding rounds
1
Latest funding date
May 11, 2021
Last funding amount
$250-500m
Features
SOC
SOC 1 - Type 2
SOC 2 - Type 2
ISO security certifications
27001
Deployment
On-prem
Public cloud SaaS
ERP integrations
Oracle PeopleSoft
Oracle JDE EnterpriseOne SAP BusinessObjects SAP BW SAP CPI-DS SAP Datasphere SAP ERP S/4HANA SAP IBP SAP Industry Solutions SAP Integration Suite Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
1993
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Stonebranch UAC |
Leader
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SOC 2 - Type 2
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Oracle PeopleSoft, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP ERP S/4HANA, SAP IBP, SAP NetWeaver
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The Stonebranch Workload Automation solution, part of our Universal Automation Center (UAC) platform, helps organizations automate, manage, and orchestrate their IT processes - across on-prem, cloud, and containerized microservices.
Unlock the automation required to support cloud migrations, self-service infrastructure provisioning, data pipeline management, and much more. All this while centralizing operational control and insight with proactive monitoring, reporting, and alerts. Available on-premises or as a SaaS-based deployment, the UAC is a modern platform built to scale with your business.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Number of case studies
50-100 case studies
Company's number of employees
100-200 employees
Company's social media followers
5k-10k followers
# of funding rounds
1
Latest funding date
April 8, 2024
Features
SOC
SOC 2 - Type 2
ISO security certifications
27001
Deployment
On-prem
Public cloud SaaS
ERP integrations
Oracle PeopleSoft
SAP BusinessObjects SAP ERP S/4HANA SAP IBP SAP NetWeaver Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
1999
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Fortra\'s JAMS |
Leader
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-
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Oracle JDE EnterpriseOne
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JAMS is an enterprise job scheduling and workload automation solution that manages IT processes – from simple batch processes and scripts, to cross-platform workflows that integrate jobs running on multiple servers and business applications.\\
JAMS enables you to define, schedule, execute and monitor jobs from a single centralized console. JAMS can automate jobs on any platform - Windows, Linux, UNIX, IBM i, zOS, and OpenVMS and includes native application integrations to run jobs specific to databases, BI tools, and ERP systems. \\ Its extensive automation features enable you to run jobs on any schedule, as well as trigger off the completion of other events. JAMS centrally monitors the status of all jobs, provides notifications of failure (or success), and maintains a detailed audit trail and log of every execution. \\ JAMS helps enterprises eliminate the slack, security risks, and lack of visibility associated with trying to automate critical business processes with a jumble of homegrown, single-platform scheduling tools and scripts. Once jobs are centrally managed in JAMS, IT teams can rest assured that JAMS is managing the cross-platform workflows and delivering measurable results to the business. \\ Fortra simplifies today’s complex business landscape by bringing complementary products together to solve problems in innovative ways. These integrated, scalable solutions address the challenges in streamlining your operations. Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Number of case studies
50-100 case studies
Company's number of employees
1k-2k employees
Company's social media followers
30k-40k followers
Features
ISO security certifications
27001
Deployment
On-prem
Public cloud
ERP integrations
Oracle JDE EnterpriseOne
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
1987
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Control-M |
Leader
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SOC 2 - Type 2
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MS Dynamics
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Control-M simplifies application workflow orchestration. It makes it easy to define, schedule, manage and monitor workflows, ensuring visibility and reliability, and improving SLAs.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
5k-10k employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Features
SOC
SOC 2 - Type 2
Deployment
On-prem
Public cloud
ERP integrations
MS Dynamics
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Tidal by Redwood |
Challenger
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Oracle PeopleSoft, Oracle JDE EnterpriseOne
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Tidal Software provides enterprise workload automation solutions that orchestrate the execution of complex workflows across systems, applications and IT environments. Whether you're running on-premises, in the cloud or both, Tidal optimizes mission-critical business processes, increases IT cost efficiencies and satisfies legal and regulatory compliance requirements with its comprehensive portfolio of products and services. Worldwide, hundreds of customers rely on Tidal for modernizing their workload automation and driving their digital transformation..
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
400-1k employees
Company's social media followers
40k-50k followers
Total funding
$250-500m
# of funding rounds
1
Latest funding date
May 11, 2021
Last funding amount
$250-500m
Features
Deployment
On-prem
Public cloud
ERP integrations
Oracle PeopleSoft
Oracle JDE EnterpriseOne Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
1993
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Digitate's ignio AIOps |
Challenger
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SOC 2 - Type 1, SOC 2 - Type 2
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Digitate's ignio is an AIOps platform that accelerates the automation of IT lifecycle tasks from triaging to resolution.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
300-400 employees
Company's social media followers
10k-20k followers
Features
SOC
SOC 2 - Type 1
SOC 2 - Type 2
ISO security certifications
27001
Deployment
SaaS
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2015
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AutoSys Workload Automation |
Challenger
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SOC 2 - Type 2
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SAP Industry Solutions, SAP NetWeaver
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AutoSys Workload Automation enhances visibility and control of complex workloads across platforms, ERP systems, and the cloud. It helps to reduce the cost and complexity of managing mission critical business processes, ensuring consistent and reliable service delivery.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
4k-5k employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Features
SOC
SOC 2 - Type 2
Deployment
On-prem
Public cloud
ERP integrations
SAP Industry Solutions
SAP NetWeaver |
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OpCon |
Challenger
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SOC 2 - Type 1
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Oracle PeopleSoft, SAP Industry Solutions
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OpCon is a robust and flexible platform capable of scaling up to meet the needs of clients running 140,000+ daily jobs across multiple environments and operating systems. Our proven migration framework helps clients painlessly transition from outdated or cost inefficient platforms thanks to our deep organizational expertise, REST API, and extensive library of legacy connectors. We have a variety of consulting options available for clients and offer no-cost training for the life of the contract.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
100-200 employees
Company's social media followers
5k-10k followers
# of funding rounds
1
Latest funding date
September 29, 2022
Features
SOC
SOC 2 - Type 1
ISO security certifications
27001
Deployment
On-prem
Public cloud
ERP integrations
Oracle PeopleSoft
SAP Industry Solutions Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
1980
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CA Workload Automation CA7 |
Niche Player
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CA Workload Automation CA7 is a workload automation solution, by automating many of the labor-intensive tasks associated with workload automation and monitoring for z Systems. It helps to development from existing processes, and automates complex performance management to respond faster to changing SLA requirements.
Basis for EvaluationWe made these evaluations based on the following parameters; Customer satisfaction
Average rating
Market presence
Company's number of employees
4k-5k employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Features
Deployment
On-prem
Public cloud |
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“-”: AIMultiple team has not yet verified that vendor provides the specified feature. AIMultiple team focuses on feature verification for top 10 vendors.
Sources
AIMultiple uses these data sources for ranking solutions and awarding badges in WLA software:
WLA Leaders
According to the weighted combination of 4 metrics
What are WLA
customer satisfaction leaders?
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current WLA customer satisfaction leaders:
Which WLA solution provides the most customer satisfaction?
AIMultiple uses product and service reviews from multiple review platforms in determining customer satisfaction.
While deciding a product's level of customer satisfaction, AIMultiple takes into account its number of reviews, how reviewers rate it and the recency of reviews.
- Number of reviews is important because it is easier to get a small number of high ratings than a high number of them.
- Recency is important as products are always evolving.
- Reviews older than 5 years are not taken into consideration
- older than 12 months have reduced impact in average ratings in line with their date of publishing.
What are WLA
market leaders?
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current WLA market leaders:
Which WLA products published the most case studies?
We analyzed 69 WLA case studies and found that these products are the top contributors:
- ActiveBatch by Redwood
- Stonebranch UAC
- Fortra's JAMS
Which one has collected the most reviews?
AIMultiple uses multiple datapoints in identifying market leaders:
- Product line revenue (when available)
- Number of reviews
- Number of case studies
- Number and experience of employees
- Social media presence and engagement
What are WLA feature leaders?
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current rpa software feature leaders.
Which one offers the most features?
RunMyJobs by Redwood, Stonebranch UAC, ActiveBatch by Redwood offer the most feature complete products.
What are the most mature WLA software?
Which one has the most employees?
Which WLA companies have the most employees?
1,721 employees work for a typical company in this solution category which is 1,698 more than the number of employees for a typical company in the average solution category.
In most cases, companies need at least 10 employees to serve other businesses with a proven tech product or service. 19 companies with >10 employees are offering wla software. Top 3 products are developed by companies with a total of 600k employees. The largest company in this domain is IBM with more than 300,000 employees. IBM provides the WLA solution: IBM Workload Automation
Insights
What are the most common words describing WLA software?
This data is collected from customer reviews for all WLA companies. The most positive word describing WLA software is “Easy to use” that is used in 5% of the reviews. The most negative one is “Difficult” with which is used in 4% of all the WLA reviews.
What is the average customer size?
According to customer reviews, most common company size for WLA customers is 51-1,000 employees. Customers with 51-1,000 employees make up 39% of WLA customers. For an average Workload Automation solution, customers with 51-1,000 employees make up 19% of total customers.
Customer Evaluation
These scores are the average scores collected from customer reviews for all WLA software. WLA Software are most positively evaluated in terms of "Customer Service" but falls behind in "Ease of Use".
What are the benefits of WLA?
The most commonly cited benefits of WLA are:
- Cost saving
- Increased visibility
- Time saving
- Improved compliance
- Improved data quality
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Where are WLA vendors' HQs located?
Trends
What is the level of interest in WLA software?
This category was searched on average for 810 times per month on search engines in 2024. This number has decreased to 0 in 2025. If we compare with other workload automation solutions, a typical solution was searched 810 times in 2024 and this decreased to 0 in 2025.
Learn more about WLA Software
It optimizes resources, ensures timely execution of tasks, reduces errors, and aids in the digital transformation of businesses.
While job scheduling is about running tasks at specific times, WLA involves the management of complex workflows, dependencies, event-based triggers, and resource management.
Most modern WLA tools offer integration capabilities with a wide range of IT solutions, such as ERP systems, cloud platforms, and DevOps tools.
WLA tools can schedule, manage, and monitor workloads across hybrid cloud environments, ensuring tasks are run efficiently regardless of where the workload resides.
Most leading WLA solutions come with robust security features, including role-based access controls, encryption, and audit trails.
WLA can automate key parts of the DevOps lifecycle, such as CI/CD pipelines, thereby speeding up software delivery and improving quality.
Most tools provide features for error handling, retries, and notification mechanisms. They also allow defining complex job dependencies to ensure tasks are executed in the right sequence.
The future of workload automation (WLA) is poised to be deeply intertwined with advancements in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and hybrid cloud environments. As businesses increasingly adopt DevOps, containerization, and microservices, WLA tools will evolve to seamlessly orchestrate tasks across diverse infrastructures, integrating with IoT and edge computing. Enhanced user experiences, granular security features, and flexible pricing models will become standard, while AI-driven predictive analytics will empower organizations to preemptively address issues and optimize processes, making workload automation an even more pivotal element in the IT landscape.