Universal Automation Center
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Stonebranch review
What do you like best about the product?
Support is great. Product works well. It is handling our needs well.
What do you dislike about the product?
Product needs more resiliency on z/OS. Some defaults need changed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Enterprise wide scheduling is the area we are solving.
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What do you like best about the product?
The straight forward way of thinking and doing, shown in their tools and behaviour. It´s a simple, robust and stable solution to process workload in a hetereogenes Workload-network. Complex topics getting easy by using it.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike nothing at all. best experiences
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- To simplify a complex filetransfer-solution-farm into an easy and straight forward solution with only one tool.
- to execute on a simple way workload, scipts and processes at a remote system under control of a SPOC
- increased Security and Reliabeilty
- To control and execute SAP-Abap´s or process-chains
It´s a mindchanger to do complex things withhin the topic of workload distributionin a simple and easy way in a world which is gettingmore and more complex, sensitive and quick changing
- to execute on a simple way workload, scipts and processes at a remote system under control of a SPOC
- increased Security and Reliabeilty
- To control and execute SAP-Abap´s or process-chains
It´s a mindchanger to do complex things withhin the topic of workload distributionin a simple and easy way in a world which is gettingmore and more complex, sensitive and quick changing
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It boosts your efficiency in any way (security, reliability, easy, straight forward and many more..) doing managed workload automation.
Stonebranch at Fanatics
What do you like best about the product?
Works fine without issues 99% of the time
Few bugs that need to be addresses
We now moved to latest version of Stonebranch and we will see some bugs
Few bugs that need to be addresses
We now moved to latest version of Stonebranch and we will see some bugs
What do you dislike about the product?
Visibility of all the streaming logs when jobs are getting executed.
Available APIs which we can call into to get some of the metrics out like CPU Utilization, disk space etc
Available APIs which we can call into to get some of the metrics out like CPU Utilization, disk space etc
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scheduling and executing jobs against the likes of Qubole, Redshift and Athena (S3)
One of the most critical application that help (as a middleware) to get insights out for our Business users
One of the most critical application that help (as a middleware) to get insights out for our Business users
Great tool for scheduling/workflow automation!
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to see when jobs are complete.
What do you dislike about the product?
No way to view version diffs between envs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have 30+ groups using Stonebranch to solve so many different kinds of issues. It runs database jobs, file transfers to and from different types of servers, SFTP transfers to various vendors, FTP file monitors, java jar programs, running Windows tasks and so much more. Every group that starts using Stonebranch really enjoys it, and they love that they can be emailed or paged when jobs fail, as well as having an easy interface to see job statuses.
From an administration standpoint I can easily see when agents are having trouble, as well as create custom reports to see any information that I want or need about the jobs running. I administer around 10,000 jobs and Stonebranch makes it easy to do.
From an administration standpoint I can easily see when agents are having trouble, as well as create custom reports to see any information that I want or need about the jobs running. I administer around 10,000 jobs and Stonebranch makes it easy to do.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a very powerful tool that makes administration easy to use and developers can learn how to quickly implement jobs on it. It's versatile and the triggers can handle all kinds of complex scenarios. Stonebranch support responds almost instantly to questions and is amazing to work with.
Modern workflow automation software
What do you like best about the product?
I like all the various types of tasks that we've been able to implement within the Universal Controller software. For instance with the stored procedure tasks, we're able to code and test a stored procedure and then directly invoke that stored procedure from the Universal Controller software. For days when we're releasing code to our production environment, I also like that I can create a bundle of tasks and triggers and fully promote the entire set of them. We've built the bundle into our code promotion process, so the bundle also serves as our checkpoint of 'is this code ready for production'.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are a ton of features of Universal Controller, and having said that there are quite a few potential error states that you can encounter. Some of them are fully documented, and others are lightly documented. When I search for the errors online they are often too generic, which leads me to need to open a ticket with Stonebranch support. I haven't encountered too many of these instances; but when I do, a ticket is needed and a couple hours of time go past before someone can get back to me. I have no complaints with the speed of support and their helpfulness, but if I could avoid the need to contact them in those scenarios, it would be helpful for everyone.
Outside of the above, the biggest downside of the software is that it requires and is licensed by agent/server that it is deployed on. All of the competitor software is licensed like this as well, and it's done in a way that makes sense especially for non-technical staff. So I don't see this part changing.
Outside of the above, the biggest downside of the software is that it requires and is licensed by agent/server that it is deployed on. All of the competitor software is licensed like this as well, and it's done in a way that makes sense especially for non-technical staff. So I don't see this part changing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're able to better visualize our workflows and understand what parts are taking the most time to complete. The software is also far less obtrusive and for the most part, gets out of the way and lets us implement the tasks like we would expect to, which quickens our time to launch.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
We had an old green screen based scheduler for years, and I don't think that people realized how much it was holding us back and preventing us from being more successful. Ask the question to your developers if their workflows or automations are being held back by your current software and ask if there's a way Stonebranch can fulfill that.
New to the Framework UAC. But its very comprehensible for each step in a FilTrannsfe fro a to b
What do you like best about the product?
Universal Agent and Universal Agent Controller
What do you dislike about the product?
Shell command functionality partly isn't 1:1 (for instance mkdir -p - the p switch is missing)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Filetrasfers from a to b. No Mainframe Knowledge used, get rid of Mainframe FIleTransfer Solutions at all
Extremely satisfied with the product
What do you like best about the product?
I have worked with and managed scheduling tools for many years. Among all the ones I know, Stonebranch is, without a doubt, the best, most efficient, practical, and interactive of them all. I have been working with it for over 7 years. Its web interface, currently set up under an F5 in high availability, has a sensational performance. Just like the functionality of the agents, also installed in Load Balance and set up in a cluster, are perfect resources. Currently, my maintenance days are never a headache when it comes to the automation environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
Honestly, I have no complaints. All the needs I had, either Stonebranch released quickly, or they had already released and I didn't know. Recently, I needed to attach a spreadsheet to an email, and as soon as I opened a ticket commenting on this need of mine, they had already released a fix that solved this problem. Simply sensational.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Client issues with scheduling SAP Jobs, which were done manually, or through SAP's own schedule which is very efficient.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Currently, the best automation tool I know. Fully interactive web interface, easy to understand. Object-oriented design that greatly facilitates the composition of Workflows.
ease of use , support is outstanding
What do you like best about the product?
their multitude of products all mesh well together.
If you have any question about their use or understanding, support is very accommodating .
their support team team is Global & very responsive, knowledgeable,
If you have any question about their use or understanding, support is very accommodating .
their support team team is Global & very responsive, knowledgeable,
What do you dislike about the product?
very little to dislike, a good product..
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
scheduling , file copies. data movement,
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What do you like best about the product?
UAC is intuitive and powerful. By leveraging the metadata repository, we’ve built KPIs and dashboards that have transformed our daily SDI meetings. We can now instantly pinpoint DW refresh time (part of SLA), failed, or late jobs, making our improvement process faster and more data-driven.
What do you dislike about the product?
File Transfer task needs some improvements. Also needs some more examples in the documentation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us organize automate, and schedule a wide variety of tasks. it is our enterprise scheduling tool.
good reliable company
What do you like best about the product?
Universal Automation Center has nice flexibility to cover almost all challenges out there
What do you dislike about the product?
a user support could be slightly better. Reporting new features should be improved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
the product solved user isolation problem, as well as some minor demands like cummulative oracle db report bundle, or cross-environment db backups.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
be brave, there are no perfect software in this world but stonebranch is on a good direction to achieve this.
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