If there is one theme that comes out loud and clear from this research, it is that application modernization and digital transformation are driving forces in many organizations, and those activities are stressing scheduling and automation tools to the point at which many are looking for better answers. This is true for many organizations using only environment-specific schedulers, such as Windows Task Scheduler, Cron, AWS Batch, and Azure Scheduler. It is true for those using open-source schedulers, such as Apache Airflow, Apache Ozie for Hadoop, and Azkaban. It is also true for those using an enterprise-class workload automation (WLA) product. The top two reasons for discontinuing a product or the criteria for selecting a new one are consistently application modernization and digital transformation.