Automic SaaS and the Cloud Revolution

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Automic SaaS and the Cloud Revolution

May 8, 2024

Automic SaaS emerges as a game-changer, offering full feature functionality both on-premises and in the cloud

AT A GLANCE

Automic SaaS offers full feature functionality, unlike many cloud-based: Unlike on-prem rewrites with limited features, Automic SaaS is a fully containerized version of its on-prem counterpart: Automic Automation. It ensures feature-parity migration and enterprise-wide automation.
Object reusability enhances scalability and reduces job failures: Automic SaaS allows for fewer jobs to automate the same workload. This lowers job failure rates and TCO, compared to other schedulers.
Broadcom’s Strong R&D Investment Secures Automic’s Future: In 40 years, Automic has had just three owners. Broadcom invests $5 billion each year in R&D across all products. This helps them improve their Workload Automation Suite, including Automic SaaS, with continuous Cloud innovations.
Customer-Friendly Licensing: Only Pay for Successful Executions: Unlike competitors that charge for failures, Automic SaaS only bills for successful job runs. This ensures a fair, predictable pricing model for enterprises scaling their automation workloads.

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Considering migration to Automic SaaS?

85% of companies are consolidating their automation solutions, and many want to shift to the cloud, but they’re struggling with a long list of requirements.

If you’re in that camp, what I’m about to say will come as a pleasant surprise (especially if you’re researching cloud-based job schedulers).

Here it is:

Automic SaaS comes with the full feature-functionality of Automic Automation in the cloud.

I know, I know. Break out the scotch.

The reason is simple. Most cloud-based job schedulers are rewrites of the automation parent who shares their name. And those cute little clone juniors haven’t matured.

Definitely not their fault they’re singing falsetto in the kiddie choir. It’s just the nature of development, and their time will come.

But Automic isn’t a pre-pubescent clone. It’s a fully mature, identical, containerized version of the original on premise solution.

And man, I’m relieved it’s here.

Here’s why.

1. Robust Functionality Creates a Seamless Transition to Automic SaaS

Automic SaaS is a true enterprise-wide scheduler, a SOAP, with a single pane of glass for automating any type of job, process, or interdependent workflow.

Its functionality is actually so robust, Automic requires a slightly higher operator skillset than schedulers like AutoSys Workload Automation.

And since it goes beyond the basic rewrite we see with other SaaS schedulers, it delivers true enterprise-wide automation whether you’re operating on-premises or in the cloud.

It’s Automic’s sky’s-the-limit functionality that makes migrations guaranteed to succeed, no matter your complexity or requirements.

Download RMT’s conversion solution brief here.

2. Object Reusability Sets Automic SaaS Apart from the Crowd

Thanks to reusable object variables, Automic can achieve the same workload with fewer jobs compared to other solutions.

For instance, 150,000 jobs in another job scheduler might translate to 20,000 jobs in Automic.

That’s an 86% difference. A smokin’ hot difference.

To take advantage of it not only boosts scalability but also reduces job failure rates and lowers the overall cost of ownership for Automic.

The trade-off is simplicity and granularity. But for the additional capacity and power, Automic only requires marginally higher operator proficiency.

3. Automic SaaS Delivers Certainty in the Acquisition Hot Potato Storm

Remember hot potato? The ball goes from hand to hand as fast as you can find someone to throw it at. Hold it for 3 seconds and you’re dead.

Have you noticed? Vendors have been treating their schedulers like hot potatoes.

Uncertainty is the norm.

But Automic doesn’t have the tidal wave of red flags we see with schedulers like Tidal, that are passed from hand-to-hand between vendors that downsize product teams, lower reinvestment strategies, hike renewal rates, and obscure the story with NDAs.

And it’s a dang good thing because when you’ve got a scheduler running 10 business critical applications, that scheduler is ten times as critical to your business as each of the applications it runs.

In contrast to the hot potato schedulers, over its 40-years, Automic has only had three owners. Plus, it retained its product team when Broadcom bought CA Technologies in 2018 and made Automic her flagship product, using her deep pockets to increase investment in her Workload Automation stack.

With a hefty $5 billion allotted annually to Broadcom R&D, Automic receives continuous cloud investments and additions to 300+ out-of-the-box integrations.

Users can rely on Automic to show up for their business critical apps and keep showing up with new feature functionality, year-over-year.

That’s why it’s one of my top hand-picked SOAPs.

4. The Automic SaaS Licensing Model Only Counts Successful Executions

Stop me if I’m oversharing.

Does it annoy you when schedulers like RunMyJobs make users pay for every execution, even when they fail? Does it bug you when fees are based on daily high water marks that include failed executions?

It riles me up.

Automic only charges for successful executions, and does so on a monthly basis. Most folks find the pricing model beneficial.

Thank you for playing it clean, Broadcom.

5. Automic's Robust Integration Library

Connecting Automic to your software is simple, and you don’t pay per adapter – which simplifies pricing when compared to what I’ve come to feel are more predatory models. Forgive me, strategic models. <cough>

They start out rational, “only pay for what you use,” but when your company grows, what initially seemed logical begins to make you feel like prey.

So while the maturity varies, I appreciate the unlimited integrations that come with Automic. There’s over 300 Action Packs in the Agent Marketplace.

Take Automic SaaS’ RISE with SAP certification. RISE with SAP simplifies getting started with cloud SAP solutions, and Automic SaaS makes everything better – by simplifying and automating SAP.

Or take its Oracle EBS integration. It was a use case my man Trey just did for an Automic POC deep dive – the client had an initiative to move scheduling to the cloud.

The result?

Automic’s integration ran circles around the competitors’ version. That along with Automic’s maturity made it a no-brainer once the client tried it themselves.

Evaluate Automic SaaS: Get a Demo

Curious about Automic SaaS?

This solution is Generally Available (GA), and RMT has a unique level of access because of our relationship with the product team.

We’ve worked side-by-side for over 20 years. We’re Broadcom’s Automation Partner of the Year, and I hold a chair on the Broadcom Partner Advisory Committee. Tier 1 Reseller, Expert+ Advantage, and Broadcom Knights. You get the drift.

Use this form to apply for a demo. It’s just a few questions to make sure we’re positioned to serve you well.

Automic’s new GUI is almost enough to give you a buzz.

Almost.

Hit up my team. Say Bob sent you.

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