My team and I would like to purchase either Continua CI or Automise, but we are not sure which is the right product for us. Can you please advise?
We maintain and run a custom-made application to automate a bunch of data harvesting tasks. The scheduling of tasks is not simple. Tasks are scheduled according to need, the calculation of which can only be done in custom-written data-driven code. While our scheduling application works ok, I would like to relieve ourselves of the maintenance burden by replacing it with a suitable commercial tool (Continua CI or Automise or something else).
At first blush, it looks as if Automise can only schedule according to simple fixed schedules, like “once a day at 3pm”. Am I wrong?
Tasks also have a date parameter. When a task has successfully completed for one date, it needs to run next for the next date (within a valid set). There are also scheduling dependencies between tasks. Certain tasks for a particular date cannot be permitted to run until dependent tasks are run successfully for the same date parameter.
Is Automise capable of solving this kind of problem? Or Continua CI?
Hi Sean
I’m not sure that either product is suiteable. Automise relies on the windows task scheduler, which would not cope with your custom requirements. Continua CI’s time based triggering is even more simple than windows task scheduler. To be honest, you probably need a some sort of workflow software to achieve what you want.