We performed a comparison between ActiveBatch by Redwood and ESP Workload Automation Intelligence based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, Tidal Software by Redwood, Redwood Software and others in Workload Automation."The user interface is really incredible."
"The product offers a centralized platform for managing activities across many environments, applications, etc."
"For developers, it is easy to orchestrate the workflows and the integration has been very easy."
"ActiveBatch provides summary reports and logs for further analysis and improvements in monitoring servers, which is very handy."
"Since I started using this product, I have been able to easily track everything as it mainly monitors, alerts, and looks after all the services - even across platform scheduling - which has helped me immensely."
"We use the main job-scheduling feature. It's the only thing we use in the tool. That's the reason we are using the tool: to reduce costs by replacing manual tasks with automated tasks and to perform regular, repetitive tasks in a more reliable way."
"There are hundreds of pre-built steps."
"It has helped with scheduling complex jobs with simple scripts."
"The solution can scale."
"ActiveBatch is a little complex."
"The user interface can be improved so that it is more appealing and accessible to new users."
"Except for the GUI, everything looks good."
"Some improvements can be made to the user interface."
"Some of the advanced features in the user interface are a bit confusing even after referring to the documents."
"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."
"Between version 10 and version 12 there was a change. In version 10, they had each object in its own folder. But on the back end, they saw it at the root level. So when we moved over to version 12, everything was in the same area mixed together. It was incredibly difficult and we actually had to create our own folders and move those objects—like schedules, jobs, user accounts—and manually put those into folders, whereas the previous version already had it."
"One thing I've noticed is that navigation can be difficult unless you are familiar with the structure that we have in place. If someone else had to look at our ActiveBatch console and find a job, they might not know where to find it."
"The new version is going to have more web services where you could string together various web services so that you can create a workflow across multiple web services, which I don't think is there today."
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ActiveBatch by Redwood is ranked 4th in Workload Automation with 35 reviews while ESP Workload Automation Intelligence is ranked 23rd in Workload Automation. ActiveBatch by Redwood is rated 9.2, while ESP Workload Automation Intelligence is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ActiveBatch by Redwood writes "Flexible, easy to use, and offers good automation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ESP Workload Automation Intelligence writes "Stable, connects with everything, and has great technical support". ActiveBatch by Redwood is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Tidal by Redwood, VisualCron and IBM Workload Automation, whereas ESP Workload Automation Intelligence is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Stonebranch, IBM Workload Automation and CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence.
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