ActiveBatch by Redwood vs Globalscape EFT comparison

ActiveBatch by Redwood and Fortra are both solutions in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) category. ActiveBatch by Redwood is ranked #10 with an average rating of 9.4, while Fortra is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.0. ActiveBatch by Redwood holds a 2.1% mindshare in MFT, compared to Fortra’s 3.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of ActiveBatch by Redwood users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Fortra users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 8, 2025

ActiveBatch and Globalscape EFT operate in the automation software sector, focusing on improving operational workflows. ActiveBatch appears to have an advantage due to its comprehensive automation capabilities, particularly in complex workflows and job scheduling. Its proactive error detection, self-healing, and flexibility in deployment enhance its competitive position. Meanwhile, Globalscape EFT strengths lie within secure file transfer and workflow automation, closer to specific file-based task automation and security assurances.

Features: ActiveBatch is noted for its broad automation capabilities, script integration, and centralized monitoring. It offers proactive error detection and self-healing functions to enhance operational efficiency. Globalscape EFT focuses on file transfer capabilities with strengths in event-driven tasks and workflow automation, providing a robust feature set for secure data handling.

Room For Improvement: ActiveBatch users report challenges in interface navigation, version migration, and express a need for improved reporting and mobile support. Globalscape EFT users wish for enhanced folder monitoring, better web-based access, and improvements in high-availability configurations due to downtime during updates.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ActiveBatch provides multiple deployment options, including on-premises and hybrid, though technical support quality can vary. Globalscape EFT, offering mostly on-premises or cloud-based deployment, is praised for its customer service, although escalation times can sometimes be slow.

Pricing and ROI: ActiveBatch offers flexible licensing but may face issues with ongoing pricing model changes. Nonetheless, it is seen as a cost-effective investment with substantial ROI through reduced manual efforts. Globalscape EFT’s server-based pricing model is simple and offers good value, although it may be perceived as expensive by some users. It is recognized for stable returns and facilitating secure data operations.

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Categories and Ranking

ActiveBatch by Redwood

Ranking in Managed File Transfer (MFT)

10th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Process Automation (9th), Workload Automation (9th)

Globalscape EFT

Ranking in Managed File Transfer (MFT)

13th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) category, the mindshare of ActiveBatch by Redwood is 2.1%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Globalscape EFT is 3.4%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Shubham Bharti

Senior Analyst at Capgemini

Flexible, easy to use, and offers good automation

Occasionally, I find myself contemplating if there is room for improvement in the user interface (UI), and envisioning that with certain enhancements. The UI could potentially offer a more refined and user-friendly experience, fostering smoother interactions and facilitating easier navigation for users engaging with the application. New users might encounter a minor setback due to the absence of readily accessible training videos, which could have otherwise proven to be an invaluable resource in aiding their initial familiarization with the platform, potentially hindering their seamless onboarding process and delaying their ability to harness the software's full range of capabilities to its utmost potential.

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Sumit Mundik

Application Development Senior Analyst at Accenture

Includes encryption and decryption functionalities with advanced workflow engine

The most effective feature is its advanced workflow engine. Another feature is the flexibility of the code we use to create tasks. For example, with other tools, you receive only one notification upon completing or failing the task. However, in Globalscape, you can set up step-by-step email notifications. For instance, if you pick up a file from the source location, you can add a condition to send an email notification to a specific address once that step is successful. Conversely, a different notification can be sent to a designated address if the step fails. This allows us to receive notifications for each process step without waiting for the entire task to complete.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"I found ActiveBatch Workload Automation to be a very good scheduling tool. What I like best about it is that it has very less downtime when managing many complex scheduling workflows, so I'm very impressed with ActiveBatch Workload Automation."

"The most valuable feature is its stability. We've only had very minor issues and generally they have happened because someone has applied a patch on a Windows operating system and it has caused some grief. We've actually been able to resolve those issues quite quickly with ActiveBatch. In all the time that I've had use of ActiveBatch, it hasn't failed completely once. Uptime is almost 100 percent."

"There are hundreds of pre-built steps."

"The user interface is really incredible."

"The product offers a centralized platform for managing activities across many environments, applications, etc."

"Using this tool, if there are any huge failures, we immediately get an email notification, and the proper team will be informed, at which time they can act accordingly."

"ActiveBatch has reduced work by providing automated workflows across several different applications."

"Easy to configure and simple to develop new features."

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"Its ease of use is most valuable. Especially for the configuration of the rules, we don't need to have any scripting knowledge. Previously, we used to have a lot of custom scripts to transfer these files. Now, it's all managed in one place, and it's like a self-service. It's saving a lot of time for us."

"The Event Rules functionality is a key feature. It is very simple to understand and work with. If you have a support team that doesn't know anything about coding, they can really relate to the way event rules are designed. So, I try to make them as simplistic as possible when we create file transmissions. When I first started working in Globalscape, a lot of the file transmissions were handled through Advanced Workflow, which is a similar product. We had a lot of scripts in Advanced Workflow. I moved them to Event Viewer in Globalscape because of the simplicity of building scripts and understanding how they work. It literally takes 5 to 10 minutes to set one up, but if you're in an advanced workflow, it could take an hour to two hours to understand via code what it is actually doing. It has definitely been a plus."

"The most valuable feature is the automation engine, because it allows you to script or program and it has lots of different features and options. It's something like an IDE for programmers, where they can add variables, arrays, loops, et cetera."

"The fact that it is Windows-based was a huge factor for us because most of our endpoints are Windows-based. And the ability to configure it means standardization is available with the product."

"The best feature of Globalscape EFT is that it has inbuilt encryption, and by using the advanced workflow, we can make complex integrations for ease, with alerts and email notifications through SMTP, along with the ability to integrate with Azure and automate everything using SFTP tools."

"The High Security Module is valuable. It allows for increased security. It allows me to integrate Globalscape with our Active Directory. So, we manage all our customer accounts outside of Globalscape, and it allows us to import them with LDAP queries. It's very convenient. It also gives our customers the confidence that it's a very secure product."

"It bolsters security with features like Data Loss Prevention and seamless integration with DLP for a safe and compliant environment which enables real-time document sharing and control over file actions."

"The most effective feature is its advanced workflow engine. Another feature is the flexibility of the code we use to create tasks."

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Cons

"There are some issues with this version and finding the jobs that it ran. If you're looking at 1,000 different jobs, it shows based on the execution time, not necessarily the run time. So, if there was a constraint waiting, you may be looking for it in the wrong time frame. Plus, with thousands of jobs showing up and the way it pages output jobs, sometimes you end up with multiple pages on the screen, then you have to go through to find the specific job you're looking for. On the opposite side, you can limit the daily activity screen to show only jobs that failed or jobs currently running, which will shrink that back down. However, we have operators who are looking at the whole nightly cycle to make sure everything is there and make sure nothing got blocked or was waiting. Sometimes, they have a hard time finding every item within the list."

"A cloud option is not provided as a free feature, making it a costly solution for smaller organizations."

"The user interface can be improved so that it is more appealing and accessible to new users."

"There are very few documents that provide us with detailed information on the troubleshooting of errors that occur during integration with the existing environment."

"The monitoring dashboard could have been more user-friendly so that in the monitoring dashboard itself we can see the total number of jobs created in the system and how many were currently active/scheduled/chained."

"The UI could potentially offer a more refined and user-friendly experience, fostering smoother interactions and facilitating easier navigation for users engaging with the application."

"They should offer pricing that is more affordable."

"ActiveBatch UI could use a little more help, and video tutorials would be greatly appreciated for user guides."

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"Another area for improvement is the ARM (Auditing and Reporting Module) database, in terms of accuracy and the data being logged."

"There are two ways to install Globalscape: as a standalone server or as a high-availability server, either Active-Active or Active-Standby. We are currently using standalone servers. That means if we want to upgrade the software, I shut down one of the two back-end servers, upgrade the software, make sure everything is correct, and then turn traffic back on to that one. I then proceed to upgrade the second server. With their high-availability solution, that is not a possibility. Both servers have to be shut down to perform the upgrade. We're a 24/7 shop. We don't have a window where we can have downtime."

"The folder monitoring services need improvement. Currently, with the folder monitoring services in Globalscape, if any changes are made to our firewalls, network, or something else that affects the directory services where the files are located, for some reason, the folder monitoring services get cut out, and the files are left there. They remain in the folder without being sent. I have over 50 file transmission processes that I would have to go to manually re-drop a file into the folder so that it processes the file transmission. There are times where even though I re-drop a file, it still doesn't work. In that case, I have to resynchronize the folder monitoring process, and it is a very big headache on my side that I have to deal with. It is not only related to Globalscape or their development team. It is on our side too. I just sent a support case where we found out yesterday that we had a file transmission that hasn't run in a whole year, and it was an important one. No one on the business side or the IT support side, as well as the vendor, had indicated that the file wasn't received or the data hadn't been updated. I found out that it was the folder monitoring service that was the problem when I initially had the problem last October, and this was the file that I just missed. So, I re-dropped the file in yesterday, and the monitor worked. It runs every week, so we sent a file to that folder, and it processed that out."

"It could improve its operations by incorporating real-time collaboration features like those offered by platforms such as Microsoft OneDrive and Office 365."

"We need some capability for faster transfers and large file transfers. If we want to transfer a terabyte file, it is not capable of doing that right now. They say it is possible, but we are not able to do so with our environment."

"I do have some complaints or concerns around the centralized platform for the management of file transfer operations, and I know that they're working towards a better solution there. At its core, it's a good feature, but needs some improvements. I would like to see a web interface so that there is universal support across versions, because we have test and production environments that aren't always in sync. It would be nice to have one administrative interface to access both."

"Instead of using a fat client to access the administrator panel, where you have to install client software on any server that you need to use to access, I would like them to switch to a web-based model where you could connect from anywhere without having to maintain and install the software."

"If Globalscape has a higher number of tasks, performance issues will occur."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't think we've ever had a problem with the pricing or licensing. Even the maintenance fees are very much in line. They are not excessive. I think for the support that you get, you get a good value for your money. It's the best value on the market."

"It allows for lower operational overhead."

"The pricing was fair. There are additional costs for the plugins. We have the standard licensing fees for different pieces, then we have the plugins which were add-ons. However, we expected that."

"If you compare ActiveBatch licensing to Control-M, you're looking at $50,000 as opposed to millions."

"Currently, we are paying approximately $7,000 yearly, which includes support."

"ActiveBatch is currently redesigning themselves. In the past, they were a low cost solution for automation. They had a nice tool that was very inexpensive. With their five-year plan, they will be more enhancement-driven, so they're trying to improve their software, customer service, and the way that their customers get information from them. In doing that, they're raising the price of their base system. They changed from one pricing model to another, which has caused some friction between ActiveBatch and us. We're working through that right now with them. That's one of the reasons why we're why we were evaluating other software packages."

"The price was fairly in line with other automation tools. I don't think it's exorbitantly expensive, relatively speaking."

"I like ActiveBatch Workload Automation's licensing model because they're not holding you down on an agentless model or agent model, where every server needs to have an agent. That's the main selling point of the solution and I hope they stay that way."

"The on-prem licensing is very good. It's a perpetual license and I would advise others to purchase that license. That way, you don't have to pay yearly."

"The solution is reasonably priced in comparison to other products."

"It is much more competitively priced. Axway is probably three or four times more expensive than Globalscape. I like the server-based license. It's easier to manage than a seat license, which our previous product Axway had. Axway's license model is to charge by the account while Globalscape's model is by the server. It is much simpler and much easier when audit time comes."

"Maintenance and services for Globalscape EFT have an annual price tag, and it is not cheap."

"It offers excellent value and its pricing is straightforward, making it easy to acquire, set up, and use."

"A large factor in our decision to go with Globalscape was the price."

"Globalscape is not cheap, but you get what you pay for. The cost is worth the value of the product. What you're getting is a good, stable solution that does a lot."

"We are paying around 30K per year."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

11%

Healthcare Company

Energy/Utilities Company

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Midsize Enterprise

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

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.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

I'd advise users to start by knowing what the actual requirement is and thoroughly assess the automation needs. New users should take advantage of the demos and trial versions so they get an idea o...

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What needs improvement with ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

After upgrades we are facing a few issues and errors triggered, so focusing on this would be appreciated. Some of the advanced features in the user interface are a bit confusing even after referrin...

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What do you like most about Globalscape Managed File Transfer?

It bolsters security with features like Data Loss Prevention and seamless integration with DLP for a safe and compliant environment which enables real-time document sharing and control over file ac...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Globalscape Managed File Transfer?

It offers excellent value and its pricing is straightforward, making it easy to acquire, set up, and use. While there are some areas where it could improve, such as GUI and collaboration features, ...

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What needs improvement with Globalscape Managed File Transfer?

If Globalscape has a higher number of tasks, performance issues will occur. It will get hung, and then we need to restart the services. They need a robust tool to handle 5000-6000 jobs at a time.

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Also Known As

ActiveBatch

Globalscape GlobalSCAPE Managed File Transfer

Overview

ActiveBatch by Redwood enhances efficiency with features like job scheduling, integration, and real-time monitoring. It supports diverse platforms, automates tasks, and offers a single-pane view with robust security.

ActiveBatch streamlines automation by offering drag-and-drop functionality, pre-built job steps, and native integrations. Its customizable workflows and alert system aid in managing complex workloads like data processing and server monitoring across hybrid environments. While it effectively reduces manual errors and enhances productivity, areas like navigation and support for cloud platforms need enhancement. New users may face challenges due to its complexity and steep learning curve, and further improvements in reporting, mobile access, and training could provide additional support to users.

What important features does ActiveBatch offer?

Comprehensive Job Scheduling: Manages and automates complex workloads efficiently.
Integration Capabilities: Seamlessly connects with different platforms and applications.
Real-time Monitoring: Offers a single-pane view for quick issue identification.
Customizable Workflows: Tailors processes to specific organizational tasks.
Robust Alert System: Ensures timely notifications for critical events.
Data Protection: Incorporates strong security measures for secure operations.

What benefits should be considered when evaluating ActiveBatch?

Enhanced Efficiency: Automates repetitive tasks, reducing manual intervention.
Improved Productivity: Streamlines processes across hybrid environments.
Error Reduction: Decreases likelihood of manual errors.
Platform Support: Provides integration with diverse systems.

In finance, ActiveBatch is implemented for orchestrating batch processes and data management. The healthcare industry utilizes it for automating patient data updates and server monitoring, while the retail sector benefits from file transfers and inventory management automation.

ActiveBatch by Redwood

Globalscape EFT, a robust file transfer platform, offers ease of setup, strong security, and user-friendly automation features suitable for secure data exchange across Windows and Linux environments.

Globalscape EFT supports centralized management, strong security protocols, and simplified automation, making it an ideal choice for businesses requiring secure file transfers. It integrates seamlessly with Active Directory and provides advanced features like PGP encryption, API support, and compliance controls. Users appreciate its efficient setup process, graphical interface, and reliable customer service. However, there is a need for enhancements in cloud capabilities, faster file transfers, and a transition to a web-based admin. Challenges include folder monitoring, concurrent use issues, and complex upgrades in high-availability environments. Users seek improved alert systems and reporting capabilities.

What are the most important features?

Ease of Setup: Facilitates quick deployment without complex configuration.
Security: Includes PGP encryption and compliance controls for safe data handling.
Automation: Offers an advanced workflow engine for streamlined processes.
Integration: Compatible with Active Directory to manage user accounts efficiently.

What benefits should users look for?

User-Friendly: Intuitive interface reduces the learning curve for administrators.
Compliance: Ensures regulatory requirements are met with built-in controls.
Support: Reliable customer service assists with any operational issues.

Industries rely on Globalscape EFT for secure file exchanges, SFTP storage, and file encryption, integrating it with diverse systems for custom automation. Common uses include internal/external file transfers, compliance reporting, and secure communications across regions. It's implemented in both on-prem and cloud settings, maintaining managed file transmissions for multiple sites.

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Sample Customers

Informatica, D&H, ACES, PrimeSource, Sub-Zero Group, SThree, Lamar Advertising, Subway, Xcel Energy, Ignite Technologies, Whataburger, Jyske Bank, Omaha Children's Hospital

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