AutoSys Workload Automation vs Redwood RunMyJobs comparison

Broadcom and Redwood Software are both solutions in the Workload Automation category. Broadcom is ranked #4 with an average rating of 7.6, while Redwood Software is ranked #18. Broadcom holds a 6.6% mindshare in WA, compared to Redwood Software’s 3.8% 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 Mar 29, 2026

We performed a comparison between AutoSys 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: AutoSys Workload Automation is praised for its scalability, ease of use, speed, and availability. It stands out in job orchestration, real-time batch processing, and software process integration. Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition is commended for its powerful job definition capabilities, user-friendly interface, and integration with different systems. It also offers advanced features such as dashboards, alert mechanisms, security functionality, and load balancing.

AutoSys could enhance its integration with cloud platforms, reporting and alerting capabilities, migration process, advanced features, and workload window management. Redwood Software could improve its reporting, monitoring, alert service, user access, metrics explorer, machine learning capabilities, cloud-native features, documentation, customer support, security standards, application integration, data accessibility, and user-friendliness.

Service and Support: Users have praised the customer service of AutoSys describing it as very good, helpful, and responsive. Customers are generally satisfied with the support provided by Redwood Software, however, there is still room for improvement.

Ease of Deployment: The setup process for AutoSys Workload Automation is described as simple, direct, and relatively fast. The setup for Redwood is deemed intricate and time-consuming due to the large number of tasks and the complexity of the current system.

Pricing: AutoSys Workload Automation offers a subscription and license model for yearly usage, including a one-time fee for server setup and an annual maintenance cost. Redwood Software provides a pricing model based on job executions, which users find to be both cost-effective and easily renewable.

ROI: AutoSys AutoSys Workload Automation provides advantages such as increased productivity, improved efficiency, cost savings, enhanced visibility and control, and reduced downtime. Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition has been commended for its ability to deliver good ROI and satisfy clients.

Comparison Results: AutoSys Workload Automation is the preferred choice when compared to Redwood. Users appreciate AutoSys for its simple and direct setup process, scalability, user-friendly interface, and efficient performance. They also value its file transfer protocol and file watcher features.

To learn more, read our detailed AutoSys Workload Automation vs. Redwood RunMyJobs Report (Updated: August 2026).

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AutoSys Workload Automation vs. Redwood RunMyJobs

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Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Workload Automation category, the mindshare of JAMS is 3.1%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AutoSys Workload Automation is 6.6%, down from 10.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Redwood RunMyJobs is 3.8%, down from 8.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Workload Automation Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
JAMS	3.1%
AutoSys Workload Automation	6.6%
Redwood RunMyJobs	3.8%
Other	86.5%

Workload Automation

Featured Reviews

Latha Viswanathan

Principal Data Base And Infrastructure Engineer at a outsourcing company with 501-1,000 employees

Automation has replaced nightly monitoring and delivers reliable, unified job scheduling

We have really enjoyed working with JAMS in terms of notifications, alerts, and streamlining. There used to be a process with Automate, which is another product from Fortra, but even before that, the other division of the company that we were merging with had a tool that was built in-house called a file handler or file distributor. It was an in-house developed tool, but it was not as streamlined or as efficient as JAMS is. We literally had to have a dedicated nighttime person monitoring. Although we are 24/7, the divisions of the company that we were using JAMS for have been small scale. While we have automated it, we have streamlined it in such a way that notifications go out and alerts go out, but if there is anything, then we get paged and alerted, and if anything needs to happen at midnight, we can wake up. On the other hand, with the tool I mentioned, the file handler and distributor, we used to have a dedicated nighttime person that had to be sitting and monitoring it to see when a file arrived, whether it met the conditions, and then execute the next particular job. By using JAMS, we have gained a lot more efficiencies in terms of all of those to streamline it, and there is no necessary need for having an overnight engineer just keeping an eye on all of this.

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Pavan Katta

Assistant VP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Experience significant automation with robust integration and user-friendly interfaces

There are areas of AutoSys Workload Automation that have room for improvement. They are implementing good enhancements in the R24 release. The web UI needs some improvement. Cloud integrations are limited to 25 or 30 configurable plugins and integrations to the cloud. They can improve in that area. They have separate tools, not AutoSys Workload Automation, such as Atomic and other SaaS-based solutions that can run inside the cloud. AutoSys Workload Automation can be configured in the cloud, but it requires a substantial number of VMs depending on the load. For on-premises deployment, it is a very good solution. They need to increase their footprint in the cloud and improve the web UI. They are making excellent progress in the R24 release.

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MaheshKumar6

Senior Analyst at Electronics For Imaging, Inc

Future-proof and powerful with great support

Improvements include: 1) Cost of the Software. Redwood is more expensive than most of the other Automation Software available today; they could make it budget-friendly. 2) It has limited reporting features. Some basic reporting features are missing. 3) There is no option to extract data in Excel. This feature could help in finding errors in the data. 4) Integration with ServiceNow is not supported. 5) The cloud platform compatibility is not up to the mark. 6) Security standards need to be improved. 7) Handling failure is not great; the workflow stops when a job fails and human intervention is required. 8) Configuration and set-up are difficult for someone with less coding knowledge. 9) They need to provide more documentation to assist new users.

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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

"JAMS gives operations teams a single place to manage, monitor, and track job execution, which from my perspective as a developer improves coordination between teams because everyone has visibility into the status of critical workloads and simplifies troubleshooting since job history, execution status, and other relevant information are all easily accessible, ensuring that business-critical processes are executed consistently and reliably across the organization."

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

"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."

"The feature or capability to import a job is most valuable. We can import an existing job from different platforms, and all the configurations get migrated as well without modifying the code, job schedule, etc."

"The most valuable feature of JAMS is its user-friendly interface, especially after upgrading from version six to seven."

"By using JAMS, my company has seen benefits such as getting to know about Google products and the latest features that are newly launched by Google, and they help me in building my projects portfolio and engaging with knowledge."

"The product is easy to use."

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"The best features in AutoSys Workload Automation are its scalability and robustness; it can process a significant amount of jobs within a short period without delays when supported by powerful infrastructure and can communicate with endless agents and scan all 10,000 agent machines within minutes, updating agent statuses in the database quickly."

"The most valuable aspects of AutoSys Workload Automation are its performance, scalability, and ease of getting started for new users."

"We run millions of jobs through it every day using it for financial transactions, banking, credit cards, PeopleSoft, payroll, etc."

"I believe it's a mission-critical application that is required within the company because everything requires to be scheduled."

"The initial setup is easy."

"It has streamlined our scheduling and cut down our overall run time; not in half, but significantly."

"AutoSys Workload Automation is a stable solution."

"The ability to create calendars, calendering for batch jobs to run on a scheduled frequency."

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"It is very easy and easy to use, and minimal supervision is required to run it."

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

"Redwood helps us to schedule batch jobs on a daily, weekly, and yearly basis to keep the business running smoothly."

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

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

"Redwood is more flexible and we can schedule the tasks based on different time zones."

"Its monitoring and alerting features are what I found the most valuable."

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

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Cons

"The JAMS automation code isn't so clean."

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

"JAMS lacks source control features. Our previous solution had job control language, but JAMS doesn't. When migrating between versions, JAMS doesn't migrate all the data, like job change history, etc. Also, the scheduler doesn't have a way to make jobs invisible, so you can temporarily turn a job off if you decide not to run it today."

"If around 5,000 or more jobs run at a time, JAMS slows down, and we have to wait around five to 10 minutes or restart JAMS scheduler services."

"I would like to see the ability to interface with Microsoft group-managed service accounts, but they're still in the research phase. They need to ensure everything's legit and safe. The report designer and dashboards could also be improved. We're running 7.3, so I don't know if they have updated the reporting in 7.5, but I think the reports and dashboards could be better."

"If there were a softcover book on how to really take advantage of all of JAMS' tools, I would buy it. I do better with training books than online searching, so a book would be helpful."

"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."

"In terms of improvements, I believe JAMS can enhance its user interface for better user experiences."

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"In terms of what should be in the next release, I want integration and AI and so on. I'd like easy reporting where you can compare information, for example, "that job normally takes three minutes and last time it took six minutes or 10 minutes." Then you can get the information to the engineer of which job is taking more time than normal - understanding strange behavior compared to the baseline."

"The scalability could be improved upon."

"We have to escalate through channels to get to somebody who knows what's going on. It takes time that we do not necessarily have."

"We're not very happy with those."

"I would like to see two-factor authentication, since you see a lot of companies in the news for security breaches. That is a really big thing for us."

"The WCC could be improved."

"It needs improvement in the high-availability side. It needs improvement in WCC console and EEM console to make it user-friendly."

"The visibility and control features are somewhat limited."

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"The product could be better in terms of its monitoring and alert service."

"The addition of machine learning capabilities could help Redwood Workload Automation Software better predict job and workflow performance, detect anomalies, and optimize operations based on historical data."

"Enhancing the user interface would make it more appealing and accessible to a wide range of users."

"The job log has a size limit."

"Redwood Software has a high price tag, especially for small and medium-sized businesses that might not have the funds to engage in a complete automation system."

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

"Having a graphical user interface for the dashboard would be great."

"The dashboard provided can be made more visually appealing and could include more critical data that would help associates in one glance get the required information."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I haven't been involved in the financial side for several years, but we buy one host and unlimited agents, and we get a reasonable price for that. We're happy with the amount we pay and the scalability it provides."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"JAMS is relatively inexpensive, with additional costs only incurred for tags, other services, and optional support renewals."

"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."

"JAMS is priced competitively compared to similar solutions and offers flexible licensing options to cater to user needs."

"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."

"Take advantage of its scalability. You can start small. The initial cost is very reasonable. Once you have started picking up the tool and adopting it, then you can scale up from there and buy more agents."

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

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"People need to pay attention to how they use their ESP agents on the distributed platform. That's where some of the cost comes in, based on how many you need or how many you use."

"CA pricing has been a problem, and not looked upon favorably here at all."

"We paid to use the solution monthly."

"The price of this solution is reasonable and there is an annual license required."

"I don't have information on the exact licensing cost of AutoSys Workload Automation because that's managed by the tools and financing teams. For agents, it's close to $4,00, but for the server setup, it's usually a one-time license initially, and it's AMC which is paid every year and comes close to $8,000 to $10,000."

"There is an annual license to use AutoSys Workload Automation."

"The return on investment would be very high because doing things manually without this product would be extremely expensive."

"Validate how many agents you need beforehand."

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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

16%

Construction Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

35%

Manufacturing Company

Outsourcing Company

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	23

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	79

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

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JAMS?

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What needs improvement with JAMS?

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My main use case for JAMS is to install, set up, and configure for customers working with JD Edwards application. A s...

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

It is reasonably priced compared to the market.

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Overview

JAMS is an automation orchestration and job scheduling solution that runs, monitors, and manages critical IT processes from a single console, from simple batch jobs to complex, cross-platform workflows. JAMS automates jobs across Windows, Linux, UNIX, IBM i, z/OS, and OpenVMS, with native integrations for the databases, BI tools, and ERP systems already running your business, including SQL Server and SAP. Jobs run on any schedule or trigger off other events, and dependency management keeps multi-step workflows in the right order.

Every job is centrally monitored, with notifications on success or failure and an audit trail of every execution. Built-in conversion tools migrate existing jobs from Windows Task Scheduler, SQL Agent, or Cron without rebuilding them, and JAMS replaces homegrown, single-platform scripts with one centrally managed system.

JAMS includes two AI capabilities at no additional cost. JAX is an AI agent built into the JAMS Web Client. Ask it a question in plain language, and it finds a job, troubleshoots a failure, or looks up how to do something, grounded in JAMS documentation, not general AI guesswork. It acts only when asked, and every change waits for your approval. JAMS MCP brings JAMS into the AI coding tools teams already use, including Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Claude Desktop.

Both run inside the customer's network with the signed-in user's permissions and no elevated AI account, and every action, AI-driven or not, lands in the same audit trail as everything else in JAMS.

For teams managing thousands of jobs across SQL Server, ADF, Airflow, SAP, JDE, and Banner, this cuts tribal knowledge and middle-of-the-night troubleshooting. Knowledge that once lived in one person's head becomes something any team member can ask about directly.

The AI lives in the product, not in the support queue. Support is staffed by humans JAMS will never outsource, based in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. New tickets go to long-tenured engineers, and every JAMS customer has the CEO's cell phone number.

JAMS' mission is to reduce the operational burden of critical automation, so teams spend more time on the work automation was meant to free them for.

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AutoSys Workload Automation delivers comprehensive scheduling capabilities and integration features, offering users scalability and efficiency in automation across platforms. Its enhanced user-friendliness and security make it a reliable choice for job scheduling and workload management.

AutoSys Workload Automation is well-regarded for its stability and intuitive graphical interface which facilitates efficient job scheduling across platforms. Users find its security features effective in ensuring controlled access, and appreciate its ability to handle high volumes of jobs while providing seamless orchestration and monitoring. However, the interface could benefit from modernization. Enhancements are suggested for reporting features and job flow clarity. Its integration with mobility and cloud platforms requires improvement as current support remains limited. Improving monitoring capabilities, managing cross-application dependencies, and simplifying upgrades are essential. Additionally, addressing the costly licensing model and enhancing high-level system process views are significant for maintaining competitiveness in automation.

What are AutoSys's key features?

Scheduling Capabilities: Provides robust and flexible scheduling options across platforms.
Integration Features: Allows seamless automation with diverse systems.
Security Measures: Ensures controlled and secure access to resources.
User-Friendly Interface: Offers an intuitive GUI for simplified use.
High Job Volume Support: Efficiently manages a large number of jobs with ease.

What benefits can users expect?

Reduced Manual Efforts: Automates processes minimizing the need for manual intervention.
Enhanced Visibility: Improves oversight and monitoring of tasks.
Effective Troubleshooting: Streamlines troubleshooting with well-organized workflows.
Scalability: Scales across diverse environments to meet enterprise demands.
Improved Efficiency: Increases operational efficiency with optimized automation.

AutoSys Workload Automation is extensively used in industries like banking, insurance, and retail for job scheduling, batch management, and server workload automation. It supports data processing for enterprise tasks, monitors tasks, and manages cross-platform dependencies, proving to be a reliable tool for complex job orchestration in these sectors.

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

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