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Tidal by Redwood pros and cons

Vendor: Tidal Software by Redwood

4.5 out of 5

37 reviews
97% willing to recommend

Tidal by Redwood Pros review quotes

JJ

Tidal Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 15, 2020

For us, the calendaring system is very robust. Some of the teams have very specific requests for when they need jobs to run. That's been really valuable, because a lot of times, when people run scripts, if they run on a holiday, they're going to fail... A couple of times a month it probably saves us work and the necessity of logging in from home and checking to make sure everything's okay.

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reviewer1271571

Sr. Platform Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Jan 23, 2020

The job dependency is something that you cannot have in a regular, simple cron job or simple scheduler dependency. The event-driven jobs are core for us, as we really need that. Therefore, we really need Tidal with its ability to run thousands of jobs per day.

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BH

Tidal Administrator at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jan 27, 2020

The feature that I find to be valuable, as I'm working with other folks, is the ability to cross-schedule across platforms, and the flexibility that comes with that.

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DM

IT Vendor Manager at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jan 28, 2020

We use the solution for cross-platform, cross-application workloads. The solution’s ability to manage and monitor these workloads is very easy and accurate. We have file dependencies for running jobs. The job does not start until a file exists on a completely different server, then where the job will run. So, it is cross systems.

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DavidCorbishley

Senior Consultant at Corbishley Consulting

Jan 29, 2020

It saves times due to automation. With some files, we do hundreds a day for a particular vendor. This would be hard to do manually. Also, the speed at which we can do this is excellent.

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reviewer1275663

Team Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Jan 29, 2020

We wouldn't be able to do many of the complex scheduling that we do today without it. For us, it is a mission-critical app. Because if it doesn't work or has a problem, then SAP doesn't function. It is that critical. So, it's an essential tool for us to manage and run SAP jobs.

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EW

Sr System Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jan 29, 2020

The first, big thing that we got out of using Tidal Workload Automation was having a centralized view of the status of all of our batch processes across all these systems... We can look into the schedule at any given time and see if things are running on track or if they are falling behind. We can also see if something failed.

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reviewer1275831

Data Platforms Operations Lead Managed Hosting at a marketing services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 29, 2020

Tidal helps administrators and users to see the information that is relevant to them in that single pane of glass. They can see jobs running, they can see job history, and they can see job progression. If you look at alternatives like Airflow and clouds, you'd have to design your own UI to monitor the progress of the different jobs that you've created in Airflow. So Tidal is huge for us.

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MosesGujjarlapudi

Tidal Administrator at Devon Energy

Jan 30, 2020

With the varied features in the varied adapters provided, we use Tidal Enterprise Scheduler because we want everything to be scheduled in one place. Tidal provides that for us with its tools and varying platforms in our organization. Tidal provides all the connectors to the platforms. This is very useful because we don't want to look for another scheduler for scheduling certain jobs. We don't want to look at those schedules manually between platforms.

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AG

Lead Control Analyst at CENTRAL STATES SOUTHEAST & SOUTHWEST AREAS HEALTH & WELFARE F

Feb 5, 2020

One of the most useful features is being able to set up a schedule and create dependencies. The calendar can kick off processes at certain times, based on dependencies that you specify, like time, or whether another process has finished. Dependencies are the most useful thing.

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JJ

Tidal Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 15, 2020

I don't know if Tidal wants to get into the business of monitoring long-running jobs, but that could be a feature for the future: a job launching and monitoring tool. Using Tidal for monitoring doesn't seem like a good fit, but if they could offer something that did that as an add-on or include it, it might be helpful.

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reviewer1271571

Sr. Platform Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Jan 23, 2020

It takes a lot of time to learn the product. I have admins and developers who are working on the products for the last three to four years and still don't know all the functionalities. Tidal has really great things about it, but people are focused on their day-to-day job and the solution is not intuitive.

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BH

Tidal Administrator at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jan 27, 2020

For the most part, the drill-down and the logging are really good. But if we take an Informatica job, for example: We have the ability, and the operators have the ability, to actually drill down and see, at a session level, where the failure is. There is, unfortunately, no way to extract that into an actual output email or failure email. It's not that that information is not available, but extracting it into an email would be a nice-to-have.

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DM

IT Vendor Manager at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jan 28, 2020

I know they are working on it, but there needs to be better reporting. Currently, there are only three or four reports that we can get off of the system. That needs to be improved. They already have a solution to this in the new version. I.e., a schedule of all the jobs running for one day, specifically calling out what dependencies that job relies on. It would be like a flow chart of how the day's jobs would run.

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DavidCorbishley

Senior Consultant at Corbishley Consulting

Jan 29, 2020

I would like more involvement with the cloud.

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reviewer1275663

Team Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Jan 29, 2020

One of the weaknesses of the product is, when something happens, it's difficult to find out the root cause. There are a lot of logs you can take a look at in Tidal. Sometimes, they are useful, but other times, they're not. That is mostly relegated to the administrative team. Users for the most part don't see that and don't know anything about that. They just know they have a problem, then it's up to the administrative team to see what happened and figure out the problem.

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EW

Sr System Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jan 29, 2020

Their software installation and update process could use some improvements. I'm pretty sure they're working on that, but that's definitely an area where it could be streamlined a lot. There's still a lot of manual work that you have to do with the schedule when you deploy masters or do the agents.

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reviewer1275831

Data Platforms Operations Lead Managed Hosting at a marketing services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 29, 2020

One area for improvement is the command-line interface and the API to bulk-load jobs. It's a little bit kludgy, but we still manage without it. They're working on it and it's getting better all the time. In addition, the documentation for their API for creating jobs needs to be updated. It's a bit of a learning curve.

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MosesGujjarlapudi

Tidal Administrator at Devon Energy

Jan 30, 2020

With the client, we have had certain issues. The user interface for Tidal is a little slow. A lot of people would love this tool if they had a faster user interface. The drill-down functionality should be much quicker than what it is pulling out now. If I fill out some data, then it takes awhile to get that data back onto the screen. It's not as fast as we were expecting.

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AG

Lead Control Analyst at CENTRAL STATES SOUTHEAST & SOUTHWEST AREAS HEALTH & WELFARE F

Feb 5, 2020

We've had some quirky stuff happen on an occasional basis where a job does not take off. For example, a job we expected to be finished by 3:00 a.m. is sitting there and not executing when we come in in the morning. We have to go all the way back to the dependencies and then we can see that one of the dependencies has become unscheduled, for some reason. No changes were made to the schedule but this prerequisite job has, all of a sudden, become unscheduled. I have brought this up with Tidal's support but they have never had an answer for it.

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