ActiveBatch by Redwood Reviews

ActiveBatch automation is one of the best automation tools for managing the workload of an organization. 

The best part is that It's directly connected to the heart of our system where we run more than 10,000 jobs on a daily basis. It helps us to save a lot of time by doing all the repetitive tasks very efficiently with no errors. 

It serves as a centralized hub for overseeing, scheduling and governing workflows, tasks, and jobs, encompassing functions such as task scheduling, data manipulation, and file transfers, among other capabilities.

ActiveBatch proves to be a flexible and easy-to-use solution for automating workflows. The inclusion of a drag-and-drop interface and impressive integration features significantly simplify the process of creating workflows. 

The predefined steps for task automation greatly enhance convenience. The capability to effortlessly establish connections with servers, applications, and services offers the opportunity to seamlessly collaborate with other software concurrently. 

Any large business or organization that wants to manage its workload effectively and with the least amount of room for error might choose the ActiveBatch Automation tool.

We send out requests to leaders for the inputs, and the inputs are either shared via emails or uploaded on SharePoint. Then, we download that data process them, and convert them to consumable format in Excel, the excel files then get uploaded onto SQL servers which are connected to visualization tools, post refresh we publish the reports onto services.

The entire process of scheduling, running DB jobs, applying security, refreshing DB, publish was done manually and repeated whenever new inputs come in, now ActiveBatch has streamlined the entire flow with a minimal error rate.

My team consists of five associates. We mainly deal with pricing, sales operations, reporting, forecasting, and several other analytics.

The use of ActiveBatch has made all our lives easy by automating a lot of manual repetitive tasks that we do on a daily basis. We save hours and effort aand gain a high accuracy rate.

Approximately ~20 hours of manual effort have been reduced to ~5 hours with the help of ActiveBatch.

It has enabled us to work on multiple platforms at the same with its capability to integrate with other applications and web services.

As sales operations analysts, our main task is to deal with cumbersome data, forecasting, and sharing these cleaned data with our global partners.

We clean these data and store it in consumable Excel files and then upload these to SQL servers which are in turn connected to visualization tools and we often refresh these tools to publish our dashboards in service.

ActiveBatch has streamlined all these steps with automation and no manual intervention which has helped to decrease errors.

ActiveBatch Workload Automation is a super robust application FOR Regular SQL tasks or other file maintenance which in turn can help us to free up the time that we spend on working on repetitive tasks. Approximately ~25 hours of manual effort has been reduced to ~5 hours.

It also offers a centralized platform for managing activities across many environments, applications, etc.

ActiveBatch has made our lives very easy by automating a lot of features which has led to fewer errors and more accuracy.

We have a security project where we need to perform daily scans on a number of our servers and network infrastructure components and keep a check on their health and status. We have implemented the ActiveBatch to perform endpoint security scans on our environment for each and every component and provide us with a detailed report stating their health as well as updating on that server and components that need upgrades. We have scheduled the scans to take place every 12 hours on a daily basis and provide the major stakeholder with detailed reports. 

ActiveBatch has really improved our project by automating the endpoint security scans on our servers and also other components of our environment. 

Being a security project we should have a complete picture of the health of each and every component as well as the servers that need to be upgraded to avoid any malware attacks on non-upgraded servers due to existing vulnerabilities. This has saved associates a number of critical business hours that can be used to concentrate on critical business tasks rather than spending them performing repetitive security scans.

ActiveBatch helped us to streamline our IT workflows and improve overall efficiency. It is the most essential tool in our Infrastructure now. 

The best part of ActiceBatch is its user-friendly Interface, which feels easy to use even for a user with limited technical experience. 

We can configure and design complex workflows. 

It also offers pre-built templates and wizards which can be used to easily and quickly create automated workflows. 

ActiveBatch also includes the option to implement it in on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployments.

Managing the workload and monitoring the tasks were very difficult with manual interventions. Now, by using ActiveBatch, the process is automated and it runs tasks on a scheduled basis. We can set tasks for daily, monthly, or weekly runs. 

This powerful and reliable tool can be implemented in small businesses and large enterprises that are looking to automate their IT workloads. 

It is used to trigger tasks at specified frequencies, We have also integrated ActiveBatch with different services and applications.

Initially, we were facing a lot of difficulties in monitoring the scheduled jobs. We had to create multiple tasks for managing servers and get it done by using change requests. It was very hectic and time-consuming as we had to monitor each and every server manually. 

After implementing ActiveBatch workload automation we were able to automate all our tasks and build reliable workflows. It provides an option of triggers to eliminate errors and automate triggers based on events/actions. Monitoring, scheduling, and controlling workflows of the jobs and tasks have been simplified in half the time.

We have to monitor our backup servers on a daily basis, creating dump files and verifying all the active master servers that have gotten at least one dump parsing data entry. It's helped with checking servers with error status and analyze/fix/report and monitoring for the latest dump files in the server. These were the most time-consuming tasks and required more attention. Active Batch has helped us to automate these tasks by reducing resource usage and giving us more time for extra productive hours other than monitoring. We are able to track down the server failures easily and fix the issue within the SLA targets thereby achieving effective and improved business processes.

ActiveBatch Workload Automation can be used to increase productivity and for optimum utilization of any IT processes. It provides a centralized platform to monitor, manage and automate the process. With its REST API adapters, It has the ability to integrate with various platforms such as Microsoft, ServiceNow, AWS, Teradata, and many more.

The pre-defined job steps are a superb add-on that saves time and effort in identifying, analyzing, optimizing, preparing, and monitoring the automation process.

Team members with expertise in different tools and server processors are working and monitoring the project via a centralized platform, which means the processes are now agile and instant correction or remediations are being made on the same. This is helping us accelerate and save time, money, and effort.

The user interface is the cherry on the cake as it facilitates simple steps such as drag and drop and scheduling the job. This enables any team member to get accustomed to the tool as quickly as possible.

ActiveBatch is used for multiple purposes, including as SAP jobs, file transfer systems (FTP), and data warehouse loads. 

ActiveBatch has numerous functionalities that support different types of workflows, including batch calls and service calls. 

The format of job scheduling is well organized and very similar to what we use in everyday life hence making it easy to use. It is able to control jobs for multiple environments over and across different servers.

We can use and set up automated remediation and alerts for operations that we have created.

ActiveBatch has reduced work by providing automated workflows across several different applications. ActiveBatch also has some of the triggers, such as FTP file triggers, message queue triggers, and so on, to run jobs sequentially, making sure they will be handled in a reliable way. 

It sets up alerts for operational peace of mind. It also has custom rules that we can apply to advanced data/time scheduling and fiscal calendar. 

The best feature that it has solved is the ability to trigger jobs upon completion of warehouse nightly batch jobs.