What's your automation tool of choice? Are you team basic scheduler or cloud-native orchestrator?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Are you using Automation Analytics & Intelligence (AAI) to try to make sense of this?

9. Specialized Automation
• ETL Tools - Data migration specialists
• DevOps CI/CD - Software delivery automation
• Infrastructure as Code - Environment provisioning
• AI/ML Workflow - Machine learning orchestration
• Event Processing - Real-time data streaming

8. Business Process Management
• Appian, Pega - Low-code process automation
• IBM, Oracle BPM - Enterprise process solutions
• Nintex, K2, Bizagi - Specialized process platforms
• ProcessMaker, Kissflow - User-friendly workflow builders

7. Cloud-Native Workflows
• AWS Step Functions - Serverless orchestration
• Azure Logic Apps - Visual integration service
• Google Cloud Workflows - GCP service coordinator
• Temporal, Camunda, Conductor - Microservices orchestration

6. Low-Code Integration
• Zapier - Connect 3000+ apps without coding
• Make.com - Visual workflow builder
• IFTTT - Simple conditional automation
• Workato - Enterprise-grade without complexity
• Tray.io, Boomi, MuleSoft - Advanced integration platforms

5. API Management
• Apigee, Kong - API lifecycle management
• Postman - Developer-focused API platform
• Cloud provider solutions - AWS/Azure/Google offerings
• WSO2 - Open-source API management

4. Robotic Process Automation
• Blue Prism - Digital workforce pioneer
• UiPath - Democratized automation platform
• Automation Anywhere - AI-enhanced RPA
• Power Automate - Microsoft's business process solution
• Pegasystems, WorkFusion, Kofax - Enterprise RPA with specialized focuses

3. Data Pipeline Orchestration
• Apache Airflow - Python-based workflow management
• Dagster/Luigi - Data-focused pipeline orchestration
• AWS Glue/Databricks - Cloud-specific data tools
• Azure Data Factory - Visual ETL designer
• Google Cloud Composer - Managed Airflow
• dbt, Fivetran, Matillion

2. Enterprise Workload Automation
• AutoSys - Complex workflow management veteran
• Control-M - Visual orchestration, enterprise
• Tidal - Comprehensive scheduling across environments
• Automic - Legacy system integration specialist
• ActiveBatch, JAMS, HCL, OpCon, Redwood, Stonebranch

1. Basic Job Schedulers
• Cron - The Unix/Linux classic that started it all
• Windows Task Scheduler - Point-and-click simplicity
• AT/Launchd - Platform-specific schedulers with loyal followings