We performed a comparison between ActiveBatch Workload Automation and Redwood Software Workload Automation Edition based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: ActiveBatch Workload Automation offers a wide range of valuable features such as its flexibility, user-friendly interface, ready-made job templates, automated scheduling, live monitoring, and exceptional customer assistance. Redwood Software shines in its robust job creation, seamless job importing, user access control, error management capabilities, and efficient task scheduling.
ActiveBatch can enhance its managed file transfer, user interface, reliability of triggers, monitoring dashboard, documentation, support service, cloud capabilities, and integration with DevOps tools. Meanwhile, Redwood Software can improve its reporting features, monitoring and alert service, user interface, outage identification, customer support, security standards, and application integration. Both products recognize the need for improvement in various aspects of their offerings.
Service and Support: Users have praised ActiveBatch Workload Automation's customer service for being helpful, reliable, and responsive. They appreciate the support team's ability to provide workarounds, a clear knowledge base, and useful information. However, some users believe that there is room for improvement in certain situations. Redwood's customer service has also received positive feedback for being good and helpful, with consistent and well-delivered support.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for ActiveBatch Workload Automation was straightforward and uncomplicated overall. However, it did present some challenges when configuring it on various operating systems. The initial setup for Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition was deemed intricate and time-consuming, mainly due to the large number of tasks and the complexity of the pre-existing system.
Pricing: ActiveBatch Workload Automation has a straightforward and quick setup process, and users find the pricing to be reasonable and competitive. Redwood Software has a unique pricing model based on job executions, which is considered cost-effective. Although the setup cost may be a bit pricey, users believe it is worth it.
ROI: ActiveBatch Workload Automation has proven to be highly effective in generating a notable boost in net revenue, with estimates ranging from 20% to 30%. Redwood users have experienced a return on investment of 10% and have expressed appreciation for its ability to meet client needs.
Comparison Results: ActiveBatch Workload Automation outperforms Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition. Users appreciate ActiveBatch's straightforward setup, flexibility, user-friendliness, ready-to-use jobs, intuitive interface, real-time monitoring, exceptional customer support, scalability, and extensive library of prebuilt job steps.
"The software offers real-time monitoring and reporting features that let IT teams keep tabs on the progress of their batch operations and workflows."
"It has helped with scheduling complex jobs with simple scripts."
"ActiveBatch has reduced work by providing automated workflows across several different applications."
"One of the valuable features is the ability to trigger workflows, one after another, based on success, without having to worry about overlapping workflows. The ability to integrate our BI, analytics, and our data quality jobs is also valuable"
"Error Handling is one of the best standout features of ActiveBatch."
"By implementing a sophisticated scheduling mechanism, the system allows for the precise triggering of jobs at user-selected frequencies, enabling a seamless and automated execution of tasks according to specified time intervals."
"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."
"It is very useful in sending confidential files through FPP servers."
"In Redwood Automation, we can easily fetch the daily reports from the system as per the client's requirement and track the status of every job which is running, aborted, or canceled."
"Redwood helps us to schedule batch jobs on a daily, weekly, and yearly basis to keep the business running smoothly."
"Its monitoring and alerting features are what I found the most valuable."
"This program works with every browser."
"We can achieve anything that anything that we would like to do. In SAP, it's not generally possible with just with SAP. So we have solution manager as an option, but run by job."
"It has advanced features like dashboards where users can see all statistics."
"Multi-platform scheduling makes it easier this way rather than accessing one platform at a time."
"There won't be a memory outage issue, as it uses its own server/ECC memory only."
"The product should be improved by providing a customization option."
"Whenever there is an overload, we are seeing crashes happening."
"Setting up the software was hard."
"ActiveBatch is a little complex."
"It does have a little bit of a learning curve because it is fairly complex. You have to learn how it does things. I don't know if it's any worse than any other tool would be, just because of the nature of what it does... the learning curve is the hardest part."
"The thing I've noticed the most is the Help function. It's very difficult, at times, to find examples of how to do something. The Help function will explain what the tool does, but we're not a Windows shop at the data warehouse. Our data warehouse jobs actually run on Linux servers. Finding things for Linux-based solutions is not as easy as it is for Windows-based solutions. I would like to see more examples, and more non-Windows examples as well, in the Help."
"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."
"We need the ability to pull data into an Excel format."
"Redwood Software has a high price tag, especially for small and medium-sized businesses that might not have the funds to engage in a complete automation system."
"It has limited reporting features; some basic reporting features are missing."
"The dashboard provided can be made more visually appealing and could include more critical data that would help associates in one glance get the required information."
"The solution should have more focus on security standards."
"The user interface of Redwood can be improved a bit to make it more user-friendly and interesting."
"The reports are downloaded in .CAR file format, which makes it difficult to convert to an Excel file."
"The addition of machine learning capabilities could help Redwood Workload Automation Software better predict job and workflow performance, detect anomalies, and optimize operations based on historical data."
ActiveBatch by Redwood is ranked 4th in Workload Automation with 35 reviews while Redwood RunMyJobs is ranked 3rd in Workload Automation with 30 reviews. ActiveBatch by Redwood is rated 9.2, while Redwood RunMyJobs is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of ActiveBatch by Redwood writes "Flexible, easy to use, and offers good automation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Redwood RunMyJobs writes "Simple to use, increases CPU speed, and reduces the cost of machine time". ActiveBatch by Redwood is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Tidal by Redwood, VisualCron and IBM Workload Automation, whereas Redwood RunMyJobs is most compared with Control-M, Stonebranch, Tidal by Redwood, AutoSys Workload Automation and Automic Workload Automation. See our ActiveBatch by Redwood vs. Redwood RunMyJobs report.
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