Workload automation in 2021 reflects an even greater push to expand the category beyond traditional scheduling, toward full automation orchestration. The consolidation that occurred over the past four years slowed a bit, but is warming up again because Turn River Capital has invested in both Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. and Redwood Software, with possibly more to come. This class of software is becoming more important to the future of digital transformation and automation. These trends have been developing over the last five or six years, but are now becoming more broadly accepted as a key part of the future of IT management. While most of the products reviewed for this report have seen many feature enhancements over the past two years, the category as a whole saw fewer new features across the category than the period from 2017 to 2019. Rather, the bulk of the changes from 2019 to 2021 were more about strengthening the features required to address the four biggest trends affecting this segment than net new capabilities.