RunMyJobs by Redwood

Pros: I particularly appreciated the aesthetic and functionality of the Redwood user interface.
Any job failures can be easily tracked and addressed immediately with help of notification alerts.
The logs provided by Redwood system are identical to those at the SAP end, facilitating analysis and and enabling easy transmission to the dedicated functional team for resolution.

Cons: There are only a few areas on Redwood that require attention for potential enhancements.
1) Integrating with third-party systems demands considerable time and involves coordinating with additional teams to understand the backend configuration.
2) We need to limit the number of job execution size, although its not the preferred approach.

Overall: I integrated Redwood with SAP system, enabling the scheduling and execution of batch jobs based on Regional requirement and time zone.
A standout feature of Redwood RMJ is its "Submit Frames" and "Time Window" functionality, offering multiple options for scheduling batch jobs according to business needs, all without the necessity of writing any code or scripts.

Pros: Redwood offers numerous features and predefined tabs, making it effortless for users to schedule and monitor any number of batch jobs.
Redwood enables the creation of intricate job chains, ensuring that the second step from another S/4 HANA system only triggers after the completion of the first step from a SAP ECC system.

Cons: During report extraction, we are restricted to a limited selection of supported formats for exporting reports.
Crafting a customized SQL query for creating new filter or clearing batch job history differs significantly from writing a standard SQL query.

Overall: The primary advantage of Redwood is that it enhances efficiency, minimizes errors , and boosts productivity of all ERP users. Redwood is best in automation industry. Creating advanced dashboards helps to see all statistics like failed jobs, error job count, long running , event wait counts.

Pros: Redwood automation stands out as an exceptional tool for handling organizational workloads. Its direct integration into our system, which handles over 2500 tasks daily, is a major advantage. By efficiently tackling repetitive tasks without errors, it saves us significant time. It oversees batch jobs, providing valuable insights into job statuses—whether failed, running, stopped, or awaiting dependencies. With its capabilities for monitoring and scheduling tasks at different intervals, it ranks among the top tools available in the market.

Cons: I feel that it requires significant training investment for users to leverage its capabilities fully.
Second thing is cost, a small organization can not afford it.

Overall: Since I've been using it I have been a fan of this application, really it is most efficient tool in doing repetitive tasks hence It saves a lot of time with minimum possibility of error and during the patching activity or down time all the schedulers can be stopped and jobs are halted

Pros: 1) A significant benefit of utilizing RMJ is the ability to effortlessly manage and monitor numerous jobs with just a few clicks.
2) Using Redwood RMJ simplifies the creation of job chains, event waits, and SAP event control jobs, making them much less complex.
3)Developed customized dashboard aids in monitoring daily job progress, system workload and health checks, thereby reducing the need for human intervention.

Cons: 1) All features in Redwood RMJ is much advanced than old CPS system or UC4 system. It has less scripting and everything can be done by clicks and ticks.
2) A notable limitation of Redwood RMJ is its lack of support or integration with ServiceNow for automatic incident creation.

Overall: My team and I initially developed Redwood RMJ from scratch and seamlessly imported all jobs from the legacy system in a single operation. Retrieving audit reports from the Redwood system for (killed, error, long running jobs) is notably simpler compared to other automation tools.