Automic Automation vs Redwood RunMyJobs comparison

Broadcom and Redwood Software are both solutions in the Workload Automation category. Broadcom is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.5, while Redwood Software is ranked #16. Broadcom holds a 6.1% mindshare in WA, compared to Redwood Software’s 7.0% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Redwood Software users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 28, 2025

We performed a comparison between Automic Workload Automation and Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.

Features: Automic Workload Automation is highly praised for its strong and scalable nature, as well as its easy implementation. Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition is known for its impressive job definition capabilities, effective error handling, and seamless integration with different systems.

Automic can improve in several areas such as pre-configured automation sets, language compatibility, features, user interface, web-based version, file transfer management, pricing, and SaaS deployment. Redwood has the potential to enhance reporting functionalities, address minor problems, enhance monitoring and alert services, incorporate machine learning capabilities, and offer more comprehensive documentation.

Service and Support: Customers have had differing experiences with Automic Workload Automation's customer service. Some appreciate the prompt response and informative knowledge articles, while others have encountered challenges in contacting the support team. Redwood Software's customer service is generally regarded as satisfactory and beneficial, although there is still room for enhancement.

Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Automic can take anywhere from one to five days, depending on the size of the project. A small team of one to three individuals is typically enough for this task. Redwood Software's setup is known to be complicated and time-consuming because of its large number of jobs and the complexity of the existing system.

Pricing: Automic Workload Automation has a high setup cost. Redwood Software has a distinct pricing model based on the number of job executions, making it more affordable compared to competitors such as Control-M and UC4.

ROI: The lack of specific ROI numbers and higher costs led to the decision not to renew Automic Workload Automation. Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition has demonstrated positive outcomes with a 10% return on investment.

Comparison Results: Automic Workload Automation is the preferred choice when compared to Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition. Users praise Automic for its strong capabilities, scalability, easy implementation, and comprehensive features. Automic excels in providing control across multiple operating systems and products, which is beneficial for environments with a combination of old and new technologies.

To learn more, read our detailed Automic Automation vs. Redwood RunMyJobs Report (Updated: March 2026).

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Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Workload Automation category, the mindshare of JAMS is 2.8%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Automic Automation is 6.1%, down from 7.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Redwood RunMyJobs is 7.0%, up from 4.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Workload Automation Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Automic Automation	6.1%
JAMS	2.8%
Redwood RunMyJobs	7.0%
Other	84.1%

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Featured Reviews

reviewer2770605

Cloud Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Has streamlined complex job scheduling across scripting languages while reducing manual effort

JAMS could be improved with a web client that is accessible and as fast as a normal website, eliminating the need to RDP to the servers to access the JAMS client. A functionality running on the JAMS server to continuously check the JAMS agents would ensure they are working properly. If an agent is not responding, a feature to restart the service from the job server machine would be beneficial. The upgrade process, particularly when switching from V6 to V7, could be clearer in terms of documentation, ideally with screenshots showing exactly what needs to be done on each screen.

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Peter Grundler

Senior Consultant at Tricise

Helps to move away from manual tasks and offers wide platform support and web-based interface

Customers want to move away from manual monitoring and checking processes. Automating these processes helps in time-saving and reduces human error. When you automate business processes, it reduces mistakes. It eliminates the risk of manual errors such as typos. There is a 20% to 30% reduction in human error. It fulfills all the needs when it comes to visibility and control across various operating platforms. It is the perfect product for managing processes that span multiple operating platforms. Automic Automation has the widest platform support compared to other products, such as Control-M, Tivoli from IBM, or Stonebranch. It definitely helps with compliance processes. We have had a lot of customers for two years with a focus on compliance, and it works. They were successful. Due to the fact that our customers can automate a lot of things, it reduces operating costs. It is hard to give a number because the savings are different for each customer. If a customer never had any automation, there could be about 80% savings after implementing Automic Automation, whereas for a customer who already has automated tasks, the difference will be less by adding Automic Automation. They might see 5% to 10% more savings. Automic Automation helps improve our ability to meet SLAs. In the recent versions, SLA management has been integrated, which previously was an external component. Because a lot of customers used it and asked Broadcom to implement SLA management into the workload engine, Broadcom included it. We see more and more customers running their SLA management via the Automic Automation product.

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reviewer2138001

Sr. Demantra consultant at Capgemini

Easy to organize, monitor, and control all jobs

The most valuable aspects of the solution are: 1. The ability to schedule tasks and jobs on multiple platforms (SAP and Non-SAP) and monitor the jobs. 2. Its ability to organize, monitor, control, and schedule all jobs and activities. 3. Redwood is a more powerful tool and provision to automate any tasks/jobs than any other tool in Batch scheduling (automatic and other tools). 4. It has advanced features like dashboards where users can see all statistics. 5. It has an alert mechanism feature; if any job fails, it triggers notifications. 6. Different security functionality for restricting users to certain functions (read/write). 7. Cost Reduction, complete automation, optimized resource usage, and full audit trail. 8. Vendor support. 9. Logging and statistics.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The fact that we no longer need to use Excel spreadsheets is huge. Before JAMS, every group was keeping track of their own batch jobs. Nobody really knew what the other jobs were. So, if jobs failed, other groups wouldn't necessarily know. With JAMS, everything is done through a single scheduler. You can choose who to notify."

"The product is easy to use."

"I like how you can add new execution methods on the fly. It isn't overly complex to add Python script support to an execution method in the JAMS system. The scheduling is excellent. You can schedule a maintenance window and take that resource unit out of everything. It halts all of the jobs."

"The most valuable feature is the easily accessible data in the database because we run a lot of SQL scripting against the database."

"We can see all the batch execution status within the tool itself, which saves money, time, and cost, allowing us to handle everything in one single tool."

"I appreciate JAMS for its readily available templates that allow me to create and deliver stand-up presentations within minutes quickly."

"It's worth its weight in gold and we cannot get rid of it now."

"The interface is good, and it's very easy to define and create jobs. If a job is not running or there is an error, the solution will send an email. That's all very good and very useful."

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"It saves a lot of time and mistakes, because we used to do a lot of manual work, and since we added automation a little bit over a year now, it has enhanced our daily work, especially for the very repetitive tasks that we did."

"This solution saves our organization time, in terms of management, is more systematic, gives us more control, and is easy to learn."

"The initial setup is easy."

"It is easy to manage and customize the system. It performs well."

"The solution is usually pretty easy for non-technical people to pick it up as long as they have basic experience with scripting."

"It is technology agnostic. It works with all the different legacy solutions we have and it allows us to look at things in one location, as opposed to going to a lot of different places."

"The ability to be able to automate more of our business processes."

"Our developers chose the solution because of its scalability, stability, and features, and the solution allows us to do everything we want, from smaller items to large-scale projects with no problems."

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"Moving to a SaaS solution has a lot of advantages."

"It can centralize and support on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments seamlessly."

"This product is simple and easy to use."

"By automating the job processes it has saved us a lot of time and resources."

"With automation in place, employees can focus on more strategic tasks that require human expertise, increasing overall productivity."

"REL expressions are quite helpful for setting up the preconditions."

"Redwood manages all complex job workflow processes."

"It has advanced features like dashboards where users can see all statistics."

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Cons

"The client is horrible. Every time JAMS puts out a survey on what they can improve, I always say, "The client: When you are setting up jobs, it is quite horrible." The response has been, "Well, we are just using the Windows foundation," and I am like, "Why isn't it only your product?" We can get around it now that we know its quirks, but it is not the most user-friendly of tools out there. The UI is completely unintuitive. We had to go and open up a support ticket with JAMS just to get something back. It is not user-friendly at all."

"The documentation is not super... It's not as quick and slick as I'd like it to be."

"JAMS notifications for hung jobs could be improved."

"There could be a better simulation for banning the termination. You have to simulate every one of the processes in order to have an idea for better planning. This kind of simulation is broken and needs improvement."

"One thing that I know that the JAMS people said that they were working on that would be huge for us is a search capability so that you could search for tasks. It may be available in version 7 or in a future release of 7. I think that's on their roadmap. But right now, for us to do a search, we have to search through database queries."

"The only thing that they could improve on is the fact that they don't have a browser version of JAMS. It does come with a web client, but it's pretty clunky."

"JAMS doesn't allow us to implement SOC controls. We are a company that trades stocks on the New York Stock Exchange, so all our transactions are audited. It has a feature that saves the file for only a month but doesn't segregate the data between finance and SOC-related compliance."

"One issue which can prevent jobs from running is when a script gets into a loop."

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"It has a very complicated interface, which could be made to be more user-friendly."

"The user interface has room for improvement."

"Some of the things we don't do are mainly because we don't know how to do them. Hands-on training can be expensive, so we find other ways to work around things to forgo the hands-on training. It is also an issue because we are a Linux shop and most trainers are Windows-based."

"My biggest complaint is that there is no list price."

"The only thing that we would like improved is the FTP agent. It only supports SOCKS proxy, and we would like it to also support an HTTP proxy."

"Its dashboard can be improved. In version 12, they have already moved to a web-based interface from a UI. We are looking into this feature now. We are also looking for available APIs that we can use to interface the engine into our other systems. There should be a subservice facility that we can use to interface with Microsoft Teams and send out authorization on job executions. We have seen a feature like this in other products that we are looking into."

"It is not stable all the time."

"I would like to see more types of Calendars in the next release of this solution."

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"Redwood automation software could be made more user-friendly and intuitive, making chores and automation processes easier for users to complete."

"Customer support should be enhanced so that we can automatically raise tickets and incidents in customer service."

"Adding machine learning and AI capabilities would enable Redwood to automate more complex business processes and tasks."

"It lacks some of the common reporting features. It would be helpful to have it as part of the solution."

"The job log has a size limit."

"We need the automatic creation of incidents for failed jobs."

"We'd like to see an integration with ServiceNow to raise the tickets/incidents in ServiceNow."

"Enhancing the user interface would make it more appealing to new users with limited technical knowledge."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"For what it does, the product is priced very well."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"This is a good product at a fair price."

"The product is reasonably priced, and we don't have any add-ons."

"JAMS is close to the lower end of the pricing models for enterprise scheduling solutions. They are much cheaper than Control-M, as well as some other products that I've used. I also don't know of another solution where you can actually get true, unlimited licensing, where you can have as many instances and as many agents as you want."

"It was $10,000 for the first year. Then, there is a maintenance cost for licensing every year that we get billed $5,000 for every year."

"The pricing is very fair. We have seen very minimal to no price increases over the years. We are not banging down the door of support all the time either. I would imagine if we were a company that submitted a dozen support tickets a week for the last nine years, then it might be a little different because we would be eating up everybody's time. However, for what we get out of it, the pricing is extremely fair. Back when we were originally looking and brought in JAMS, we were looking at a couple of the other competitive products that were in this space, but the pricing from JAMS was far and away better than what the other competitors could offer for the same functionality."

"The pricing of JAMS has not been an issue for us, as it has allowed us to save time."

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"The pricing is based on the number of servers and agents."

"They have changed the pricing on their licensing, and it's cheaper than before."

"The pricing was client-wise, but they are changing it to execution-wise pricing. So, we are in negotiation."

"It costs too much. That's why we are now looking at other products."

"I'm not sure about licensing costs, but I know the base price is about $3,000, and you can get some kind of discount per node."

"I only know that AWA is cheaper than Control-M, but I'm not aware of the numbers."

"Pricing is a big issue for some of them because Broadcom changed the way of calculating the price. People have been their customers for the last five or ten years, but Broadcom decided to change the way of licensing by moving to the number of jobs runs and then they say that clients have to pay three million because they run one million jobs per day. The clients are quite surprised to see that the contract is not the same as before, and then they are afraid of paying more."

"We receive time efficiency from this product."

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"It initially surprised me because we went from an application that was priced by connection to agents/the number of agents to an application that was priced based on the number of job executions. At that time, many of the products we looked at were also priced on job execution. That seems to be more common in the business or in the vendors that provide solutions out there, but that was probably our biggest difference."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Performing Arts

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	19

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	19
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	67

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	55

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about JAMS?

I find the historical tracking feature of JAMS invaluable for reviewing past events.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JAMS?

My thoughts on the pricing of JAMS are that I won't say it is cheap, but it is cost-efficient, and that should be acc...

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What needs improvement with JAMS?

An area that has room for improvement is related to the AWS RDS and database part, where they said that is in progres...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Automic Workload Automation?

The pricing was client-wise, but they are changing it to execution-wise pricing. So, we are in negotiation.

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What needs improvement with Automic Workload Automation?

Automic Automation has some disadvantages; it is more simplified, and sometimes it can be complicated. The technical ...

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What is your primary use case for Automic Workload Automation?

I have been dealing with Automic Automation for probably around ten years. I have been both a partner with Automic, w...

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 31% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Overview

JAMS is an automation and job scheduling solution designed for workflow optimization, catering to businesses large and small with flexible licensing and integration options.

Offering both Core and Advanced packages, JAMS supports a range of environments from small teams to large-scale operations. Its standout features include integration with platforms like PowerShell, SQL, and SAP, coupled with capabilities such as dependency management and natural language scheduling. JAMS simplifies job management, centralizes workflows, and boosts productivity with its robust automation features. Customizable workflows and insightful logging make it adaptable for diverse needs, supported by responsive customer service ensuring seamless operations.

What are JAMS's key features?

Automation & Scheduling: Flexible automation helps manage complex job schedules efficiently.
Integration: Connects seamlessly with platforms like SQL Server, SAP, and Python for diverse applications.
Centralized Job Management: A unified interface for handling thousands of jobs daily.
Dependency Management: Supports complex workflows with efficient dependency tracking.
Insightful Logging: Provides detailed logs and notifications for precise task execution.

What benefits should users look for in JAMS reviews?

Enhanced Productivity: Automates repetitive tasks, freeing up resources for strategic initiatives.
Scalability: Flexible licensing models grow with business size and needs.
Efficient Workflow Automation: Streamlines job orchestration across environments.
Responsive Support: Helps ensure smooth operations with quick troubleshooting.

In industries, JAMS is employed for automating workflows and managing batch jobs. Organizations utilize it for SSIS, SQL Server tasks, file transfers, and integrating with vendor systems, achieving efficient file automation and data management. Scheduler enables precise execution of thousands of tasks daily, enhancing operational efficiency.

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Automic Automation offers a web-based GUI for high scalability and flexibility, integrating with platforms like SAP and Oracle. It promotes efficient process automation and supports multiple OS environments, benefiting diverse industries with its robust predictive capabilities.

Automic Automation facilitates process automation and workload management, providing valuable integration with applications like SAP and Oracle. It supports a wide range of operating systems and environments, enabling seamless workflow automation. It features a web-based interface accessible across devices, ensuring scalability and flexibility for complex job automation. Users find its predictive capabilities and platform support instrumental in enhancing operations, although improvements are noted in reporting, cloud integration, and documentation. Licensing and pricing structures also present room for optimization, along with workflow dependency management and smoother upgrade paths.

What are the key features of Automic Automation?

Web-based GUI: Accessible on any device, enhancing user convenience
Application Integration: Supports SAP, Oracle, and others for robust workflows
Comprehensive Scripting: Allows detailed automation customization
Process Automation: Powers efficient and complex job automation
Scalability and Flexibility: Expands across various platforms and environments

What benefits and ROI should users expect from Automic Automation?

Improved Efficiency: Reduces manual tasks and streamlines processes
Extensive Platform Support: Cost-effective management of different systems
Predictive Capabilities: Enhances operational decision-making
Robust Integration: Harmonizes with diverse applications, aiding business functions

Automic Automation sees implementation in industries like banking, finance, and telecommunications, where it automates ERP systems, schedules batch jobs, integrates workloads, and manages file transfers. By supporting SAP, Oracle, and ETL tasks, it aids efficiency and workload automation across varied environments including cloud and mainframe systems.

Broadcom

Redwood Software is a prominent player in the enterprise automation space, known for its robust and scalable solutions. It caters to a wide range of industries, offering tools for IT and business process automation. Redwood Software users on PeerSpot often highlights the flexibility and robustness of the solutions. Many users commend the platform for its ability to automate complex and time-consuming processes, which has led to significant time and cost savings. Additionally, the strong customer support and continuous updates are frequently mentioned, indicating a commitment to evolving with customer needs and technological advancements.

Redwood Software offers a holistic suite of automation tools, covering areas such as finance automation, IT process automation, and robotic process automation (RPA). This comprehensive approach ensures that various aspects of business operations can be automated, leading to increased efficiency and reduced manual intervention. Redwood Software is a cloud-native platform, which offers scalability, flexibility, and reduced infrastructure costs.

Redwood Software users shares that its user interfaces is intuitive and this is reducing the learning curve and enabling users across different departments to leverage automation tools effectively. The platform offers sophisticated scheduling and workflow capabilities, allowing for the automation of complex processes.

Redwood Software excels in its ability to integrate seamlessly with a wide range of systems and applications. This integration is key for enterprises that operate in diverse IT environments, ensuring that automation can be implemented across different platforms and applications without compatibility issues. Another important factor for enterprises, is focus on compliance and security, Redwood Software incorporates robust security measures and compliance protocols.

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Sample Customers

Teradata, Arconic, General Dynamics, Yum!, CVS Health, Comcast, Ghiradelli, & Boston’s Children’s Hospital

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