ema radar for workload automation (wla): q4 2019ca technologies, a broadcom company with the product...

EMA RADAR for Workload Automation (WLA): Q4 2019

An Enterprise Management Associates® Radar Report Written by Dan Twing

Q4 2019

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| EMA RADAR FOR WORKLOAD AUTOMATION (WLA): Q4 20192

VENDOR PROFILE: BROADCOM

CA Technologies, a Broadcom company with the product Automic Automation, is once again a Value Leader. Broadcom acquired CA Technologies in November 2018, coming close on the back of CA’s acquisition of Automic in 2017. Automic Automation remains the strategic WLA product for Broadcom. While all CA and Automic products continue to be supported, Automic Automation v12.3 is the only Broadcom WLA product reviewed in this report. Automic Automation provides automation for complex workloads across platforms, ERP systems, and business apps from mainframe to microservices and serverless in both cloud and on-premises. Automic Automation provides self-service automation with service catalog integrations (e.g., ServiceNow) and automation-as-code facilities for automation and orchestration. The product also simplifies automation for big data and offers self-services for data scientists to scale with strong governance on data flows. The Automation team has remained focused in the wake of several acquisitions. They have modernized the UI of several existing CA products and integrated them successfully into the Automic platform to leverage broader IT systems integrations and enable use of other automation modules, including continuous delivery and AIOps.

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OVERVIEW

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FUNCTIONALITY85.77

DEPLOYMENT ANDADMINISTRATION

89.93

COST ADVANTAGE

57.05

VENDOR STRENGTH

89.36

BROADCOM

ARCHITECTURE AND INTEGRATION

82.05

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Automic Automation

ARCHITECTURE

CA Technologies was founded in 1976 and has a long history in Workload Automation, primarily through acquisition. Its latest acquisition was Automic, with prior acquisitions including AutoSys Workload Automation, ESP dSeries Workload Automation for distributed platforms, CA Workload Automation CA 7 Edition, and CA Workload Automation ESP Edition for mainframe environments. CA Workload Automation iDash provides predictive analytics, forecasting, and reporting. Following the acquisition of Automic, CA established an Automation line of business. Going forward, the choice of workload automation technology will be determined on a client-by-client basis—with Automic Automation as the automation product for new customers. The other WLA products will continue to be developed in line with customer-committed roadmaps.

CA Technologies’ integrated automation platform spans physical, virtual, and cloud computing in supporting end-to-end business and IT workflows that cross applications. By managing and abstracting the complex interdependencies that increasingly exist in modern data centers, Automic Automation consolidates and simplifies IT administration. Automic Automation automates IT processes that traditionally require multiple areas or disciplines of automation. This functionality reduces integration and interface costs by avoiding the usual issues that occur when multiple tools must be used to automate one process.





Automic Automation’s active-active architecture is highly scalable, and ensures high availability across high volumes of endpoints. The centralized automation engine can be distributed in active-active mode across any number of CPUs and physical servers. Third-party tools are not required. With deep multitenant capability,

Automic Automation can handle multiple end customers, regardless of whether they are internal (multiple departments or business units) or external users. All scheduling data, including a full audit trail, is stored in the backend Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or DB2 database. Updates can be accomplished with zero

downtime, allowing for continuous operations without the need for a maintenance window. Integrated file transfer ensures point-to-point, timely, accurate, and secure information transfer. There is no need for additional third-party-managed FTP products.

KEY FEATURES SUMMARY

Governance and Compliance Users are given comprehensive auditing and control of any automated processing and user activities, which keep processes in compliance with company policies.

Zero Downtime UpgradesWith zero downtime upgrades, users will not need a maintenance window. There will not be any downtime when businesses install new versions or patches.

Mainframe to MicroservicesSupport is offered for mainframe, distributed cloud, and virtual environments, which are combined with a variety of certifications for business applications.

Integrations MarketplaceThe marketplace offers templates and add-ons to expand automation capabilities, letting users solve more business challenges.

Multi-Cloud AutomationSeparate automations can be connected across clouds, with no negative impact on security.

Automation as CodeDevelopers are able to directly code automation artifacts without difficulty, and DevOps teams can easily promote those artifacts throughout the testing process.

Infrastructure ManagementDevOps teams are able to create, deploy, and run applications simply, with instant provisioning and deprovisioning as part of the continuous delivery workflows, infrastructure as code, or preapproved self-help runbooks.

Lifecycle ManagementAutomation policies across development, test, and production environments and teams are easily promoted.

Massively ScalableThe software can scale up to 100M jobs per instance and 100k agents. Software clustering promises dependability for users, without requiring particular, fault-tolerant hardware.

API-DrivenOpen APIs integrate tools and applications throughout the business into one single, inclusive automation strategy.





EVALUATION SUMMARY

DEPLOYMENT & ADMINISTRATIONEASE OF DEPLOYMENT

Deployment Time/Effort Strong

Conversion Facilities Strong

Job Discovery & Import Outstanding

Staff Training Strong

SUPPORT AND SERVICES

Customer Support Strong

Professional Services Outstanding

EASE OF ADMINISTRATION

Console Ease of Use Outstanding

Upgrade Process Outstanding

Test Environments Outstanding

Automation of Management Outstanding

ARCHITECTURE & INTEGRATIONARCHITECTURE

Business Focus Outstanding

Scalability Outstanding

Dynamic Workload Placement Outstanding

Breadth of Platform Support (incl. agentless) Outstanding

Breadth of Application & Database Support Outstanding

Disaster Protection Outstanding

Containerized Workloads Strong

Container Deployment Limited

INTEGRATION/INTEROPERABILITYComprehensive API Outstanding

Cloud Integration Outstanding

CMDB Integration Solid

ITPA Integration Strong

Capacity Management Integration Outstanding

MFT Integration Outstanding

Big Data Integration Solid

Social Media Integration Limited

Heterogeneity Across Environments Outstanding

Jobs-as-Code Outstanding





EVALUATION SUMMARYCOST ADVANTAGE

Flexibility of Licensing Model Solid

Pricing Scenarios $$$

SaaS Availability None

VENDOR STRENGTHVision OutstandingStrategy OutstandingFinancial Strength OutstandingResearch & Development StrongPartnerships/Channel StrongMarket Credibility Outstanding

Geographic Coverage Outstanding

FUNCTIONALITY

FEATURESAutomation Design Flexibility Outstanding

End-to-End Monitoring Outstanding

Compliance Management Outstanding

Triggering Outstanding

Self-Service Portal Outstanding

Forecasting, Analytics & Reporting Outstanding

Alerting Strong

Security Outstanding

What-If Scenarios Strong

Conditional Logic & Auto Remediation Outstanding

Logging/Auditability Outstanding

Business User Features Outstanding

Hadoop Support Solid

RPA Orchestration Solid

EASE OF USESimplicity of GUI Outstanding

SLA & Policy Awareness Strong

Root Cause Analysis Strong

Mobile Device Support Outstanding

Language Support Outstanding

Available Help Resources Strong





“We find the alerting to be very good!”

= 100 = 1000NUMBER OF CUSTOMERS

+CUSTOMER LOCATIONS

“We really like Release Automation!”

“Ease of use/ease of adoption are my favorites. They lead to adoption by

non-technical and business users.”“I am a script

guy, yet I like the visibility and historical

record you don’t get with scripts outside of a tool

like this.”“I like the concept of rapid

automation agents and agents built on the fly. The data you are processing is evolving and the structure is evolving,

so the agent can evolve, too.”

“Service Catalog integration is

very useful.”

Languages Available: English, French, and German

“My favorite feature is AWI (Automic Web Interface) and the dashboards you can create, because AWI offers more visibility in execution so customers can see for

themselves.”

FAVORITE FEATURES MENTIONED IN CUSTOMER INTERVIEWS

“I like the visibility of what a job is doing and the statistical

history of that job.”


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