Gartner® 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for SOAP
Gartner has named Redwood Software a Leader, positioned furthest in Completeness of Vision and highest for Ability to Execute, in its Magic Quadrant™ for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (SOAPs).
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Automate your enterprise and reduce TCO by up to 50%
Traditional schedulers slow your business down
Are you tired of automation with too many component parts? Is your job scheduler unable to meet business needs or a serious hassle to connect across your diverse enterprise?
Traditional job schedulers like Stonebranch slow your business down. It’s time to switch from these outdated solutions to a single modern workload automation and orchestration solution delivered via SaaS.
Your next scheduler should be AI-ready
Choosing a Stonebranch replacement that can only automate what you tell it to — step by step, rule by rule — is a short-term fix. RunMyJobs is an agentic orchestration platform that not only replaces your scheduler but positions your automation estate as the foundation for AI-driven execution.
Connect your existing workflows to AI agents, orchestrate across SAP, Oracle and your broader enterprise stack and govern every autonomous action with deterministic guardrails built in from day one.
Built for the agentic enterprise
Your modern enterprise needs more than a scheduler that keeps up. It requires an automation foundation that’s ready for what’s next. RunMyJobs gives you the reliability your operations demand today, while positioning your existing workflows as the launchpad for AI-driven execution tomorrow. No rip-and-replace. No starting over.
Leave your Stonebranch scheduler behind
Redwood’s workload automation and orchestration solution helps you to:
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Improve performance
Dynamically balance workloads and activities across multiple systems and applications.
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Increase visibility
Get a self-service view into critical processes, as well as status updates on approvals, decisions and responses.
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Ensure governance
Define rules, structure and security to reduce risk in business process execution.
Centralize control over all your workloads
RunMyJobs makes it easy to automate any cross-platform process, no matter where your applications are hosted or what underlying technologies you use.
- Automate real-time processes and manage dependencies across any on-premises, cloud-based or containerized endpoints
- Seamlessly coordinate and integrate legacy ERP systems, OS activity, API adapters, FTP/SFTP servers and mainframes
- Enable DevOps to build consumable automation services and microservices using native SOA APIs and formats, including REST/JSON and SOAP/XML
- Coordinate big data across Amazon Redshift, SAP BW, Hadoop, Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery and other data pipelines
High-volume, dynamic scheduling
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Single-tenant cloud architecture with zero-effort maintenance and guaranteed 99.95% uptime
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Flexible load balancing and process priorities across applications to provide reliable services to every end-user
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Lightweight, self-updating agents to control servers and run scripts for Windows, Linux, AIX, HPUX, macOS, OpenVMS and Solaris
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The ability to easily move, copy and manage millions of files per month from anywhere to anywhere, with an included managed file transfer module
Automation as SaaS
Cloud-based IT automation eliminates the hassle of hosting, deploying and maintaining automation platforms so your team can focus on orchestrating processes across on-prem, hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud environments.
- Coordinate deployment and provisioning applications in hybrid environments, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure
- Automate virtualization, including VMware, Xen and Amazon EC2 and containers such as Docker, Kubernetes and Amazon ECS
- Move applications to AWS, Azure, Google and other cloud platforms easily without additional licenses or tedious configuration management
Ease of use right from the start
- Object-oriented design for running parallel environments easily during onboarding
- Secure access to an intuitive web dashboard through any browser without installation
- Application automation using out-of-the-box connectors, without additional licensing
- Built-in SLA monitoring to guarantee the performance of critical business processes and IT operations
See Redwood orchestration in action
With Redwood’s cloud-native automation and orchestration platform, your business can transform to meet the challenges of the hybrid, digital enterprise. Achieve more through automation: more efficiency, more resiliency, more flexibility, more customer loyalty and more opportunity. Let our team show you why thousands of leading organizations worldwide rely on Redwood.
Achieve digital transformation without complex pricing
Stonebranch FAQs
What is Stonebranch used for?
Stonebranch is a workload automation solution that was first introduced in the 1990s. Today, many enterprises migrate to modern workload automation (WLA) solutions designed to manage cloud-based workflows. For example, RunMyJobs by Redwood is designed to manage scalable, dynamic workloads across on-premises and cloud-based systems so organizations can reliably automate IT and business processes regardless of the underlying technology. See what you can achieve with RunMyJobs for hybrid cloud.
How do I know if I need an alternative to Stonebranch?
Organizations migrate to modern workload automation (WLA) tools in order to support complex, heterogeneous systems. Legacy solutions (IBM, BMC Control-M, Cisco, Tidal) offer limited functionality out of the box and can struggle with high-volume or cloud-based workloads. Modern workload automation (WLA) solutions, such as RunMyJobs by Redwood, make it easy to connect to virtually any endpoint and are designed to support cloud-native applications. Find out how easy it is to orchestrate data pipelines with RunMyJobs.
Is it easy to migrate from Stonebranch to Redwood?
Yes, Redwood Software makes it easy to migrate from legacy systems, including Stonebranch Universal Automation Center. Redwood’s event-driven orchestration software for enterprises works across use cases and industries. The Redwood team also works with partners to ensure quick, reliable implementations and also provides hands-off upgrades, performance health checks, consultations and more, so your team can maximize ROI sooner rather than later. Learn more about Redwood’s proven migration process.