OpenText Operations Orchestration vs VisualCron comparison

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OpenText and SMA Technologies are both solutions in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category. OpenText is ranked #19 with an average rating of 8.0, while SMA Technologies is ranked #29. OpenText holds a 1.0% mindshare in RPA, compared to SMA Technologies’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SMA Technologies users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 4, 2024

OpenText Operations Orchestration and VisualCron compete in process automation and orchestration. VisualCron holds an advantage due to its user-friendly interface and flexibility in integrations.

Features: OpenText Operations Orchestration offers advanced automation capabilities, cloud provider integration, and scalability for large deployments. VisualCron features an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, broad third-party integrations, and ease of use that caters to smaller teams.

Room for Improvement: OpenText Operations Orchestration could benefit from simplified deployment processes for smaller teams and enhanced user-friendliness. VisualCron might improve by offering more advanced automation capabilities, increasing scalability for larger enterprises, and expanding support for more complex environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenText Operations Orchestration has a structured deployment process with robust enterprise support, potentially overwhelming smaller teams. VisualCron excels with a straightforward deployment model and diverse team support, fostering quicker implementation and higher customer satisfaction.

Pricing and ROI: OpenText Operations Orchestration incurs higher upfront costs, justified by its extensive capabilities and ROI potential in large-scale operations. VisualCron presents competitive pricing and quicker ROI, making it a cost-effective choice for smaller businesses focusing on budget efficiency.

To learn more, read our detailed OpenText Operations Orchestration vs. VisualCron Report (Updated: September 2026).

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Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, the mindshare of Automation Anywhere is 5.2%, down from 9.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Operations Orchestration is 1.0%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VisualCron is 1.2%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Automation Anywhere	5.2%
OpenText Operations Orchestration	1.0%
VisualCron	1.2%
Other	92.6%

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Venkat Sivaprakash

Management Consultant at Accenture

Has significantly improved document-driven workflows and reduced processing time across finance and HR functions

Automation Anywhere has evolved significantly and upgraded itself to provide agentic AI and AI-based automation solutions for document automation. The product has matured considerably over time. We can create workflows that can call an API. We can include prompts in particular workflows for ChatGPT-related functions, connecting to an LLM and RAG to perform tasks. For document automation, modern features are available to train documents, ensuring high accuracy and repeatability over time. The system is very easy to use. I recently completed a course in document automation, typically designed for people involved in coding and technical aspects. Though I understand coding comprehensively, I don't do actual coding. The course was very accessible. Currently, extensive coding isn't necessary due to the hybrid model incorporating GenAI aspects, low-code, no-code capabilities, APIs, and numerous pre-built objects in Automation Anywhere. The features include GenAI-driven prompting methods and workflow creation capabilities. In these workflows, we can create decision boxes and call APIs without coding. We simply pull objects, drop them, connect them, and add minimal coding when needed. The most crucial aspect isn't coding but rather sizing the automation and fleshing out the details. Automation Co-pilot takes notes and performs automated analysis. It can extract details from videos, summarize conversations, and provide detailed information. During calls, it identifies instructions and performs tasks such as preparing reports and reconciliation. Automation Anywhere can also connect with Microsoft Co-pilot. Through Co-pilot, real-time operations can be executed, allowing direct interaction between vendors and automation through this component.

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Ahmed Salman

Performance & Monitoring Supervisor at Saudi Telecom Company

Increases productivity with automation and robust orchestration capabilities

The community is very powerful, with extensive knowledge bases available. There are ready-made workflows, integration with other products, a nice user interface, and reporting. The tool is flexible, agent-based or agentless. It allows significant automation and has robust orchestration and reporting capabilities. It is easy to configure and use, leading to increased efficiency across our IT processes.

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Sourav-Dutta

Technical Lead - Database Administrator at SMART ENERGY SYSTEMS LLC

It's user-friendly, and I didn't need long to understand the process

We use VisualCron for all our automation needs, like connecting to FileZilla, calling APIs, generating PGP keys, creating encryption files with the PGP key login to Azure, etc. It can automatically log in to SQL Server and execute SQL script jobs in bulk. We had 2,000-3,000 users at my previous…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"For the tasks that I do repeatedly, I can record processes using Automation Anywhere. I record mouse and keyboard actions and create a workflow for those activities. This minimizes my workload. The recording option is very useful."

"The product has everything that I want; I don't have to look for another tool to integrate with it."

"It is easy to use for non-technical people, with a simple drag-and-drop interface, so they don't need to be technically savvy to automate their processes."

"Automation Anywhere has had a huge impact in my organization, especially in saving time and compliance-related process automation by reducing errors drastically and ensuring quick processing of requests with proper logs available for the audit team."

"My experience with Automation Anywhere over three years has shown tremendous growth in operational efficiency and business processes, as it helps to automate repetitive and rule-based tasks such as report generation and data entry quite faster and efficiently, reducing errors by about thirty to forty percent from what I observed a few years back and improving SLA-related compliance."

"RPA is a feature that really helped eliminate errors during the execution of structured business processes."

"I implemented AA in different environments, the AA installation is the smoothest compared to other RPA software installs."

"Automation Anywhere can have a significant impact on any company's operation, as it can automate a wide variety of tasks that are mundane, time-consuming, and the least productive."

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"The ease of use is most valuable."

"This solution basically does everything that we need it to do."

"We have saved few million dollars with OO."

"The automation, hands down, is the future of our company and the direction we're going in, letting us deploy servers in 15 minutes instead of two weeks and even embed monitoring into that same automated service for a huge benefit."

"In my environment, if I want to shut down all tools in one shot, I can create a workflow and run the workflow to shut down all tools in one go."

"The product is good functionality-wise. I am impressed with the tool's flexibility in customization."

"OO, frankly, blows the others out of the water."

"As an integrator of Operations Orchestration, we find that the most valuable feature is really the support that HP provides."

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"Using the Windows Task Scheduler means you have to do some coding while using VisualCron means the tool takes care of the coding from the backend; you're just using the visual interface of VisualCron, creating the logic, and telling the tool what actions need to be performed, so VisualCron would take care of everything on the backend for you, which helps you manage time better."

"Support is AAA+, fast, and very detailed."

"What I like about VisualCron is that like its name, it's a very visual tool. In my previous company, there were a lot of scripts for all kinds of services, and through VisualCron, you get to group all flows and get a nice visual overview. VisualCron also has an alerting feature, so you receive alerts from it. VisualCron makes everything clearer and easier to maintain. Every other solution that I was looking for almost always needed a programmer, but with VisualCron, you can do what you need to do without programming skills, so this is another valuable feature of the tool."

"The most valuable feature of VisualCron is its ability to schedule interactive jobs so that you can have interdependencies within the job and interdependencies of a job on another job, and so on."

"VisualCron is a very powerful program to automate different steps in your business processes. We use it to automate replacing files and inform departments about the replacement."

"What I found most beneficial from VisualCron is that you can directly connect it with different databases, user accounts, and credentials. You can run queries from one machine to another using the credentials, unlike PowerShell, that's run by the machine itself. With VisualCron, you can directly ask other machines and run requests through user credentials. Suppose you have an AWS or Azure environment. In that case, you can maintain the connection between on-premises and cloud-based machines, which is the type of setup in the organization I'm working for. You can directly call some of the services via VisualCron on your local on-premises machine, and I found that an excellent feature of the tool."

"We don't have to do any coding. We just plug and play and it works."

"It helped us reduce manual steps."

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Cons

"The user interface should be enhanced to make things simpler for the user."

"As a developer or user, I feel that the performance of the overall package could be made a little better or reliable. For example, if I'm opening up a heavy Excel file, which is uploaded in some shared drive over the net, and I have my box coded to open that Excel to do some work or formatting on it, and depending on the network load and the size of the file, this client version while trying to access that file becomes unstable at times. It goes into the hang position until a human being comes in, ends the task, and restarts it. Until this happens, it does not respond."

"Also, we're seemingly plagued with certain technological issues or bugs."

"Most of the time, I find that our internal team finds the solution; the support team isn't able to provide a perfect solution."

"PDF extraction and cognitive automation need improvement."

"Technical support is not very good and they sometimes promise what they cannot deliver. They promised us that they would implement multitrigger and according to sources delivery of that functionality is not in their plans."

"Automation Anywhere is headed in the right direction but they still have a good way to go."

"There is a limitation with Automation Anywhere where if you want to build your own packages and deploy them, it is very difficult."

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"Faster integration with different applications."

"Only the tool's support can be a drawback where improvements are needed."

"From 1 – 10 – I think HP is about a 4. Support can be slow and frustrating."

"The one feature that would be useful for us would be integration of more automation with other solutions."

"The price is an area that should be addressed because the price is high."

"Customer service is one of those areas that definitely needs to be improved. 3.5 out of 10 Technical Support: Needs improvement."

"The setup is a little bit complex, as the first time we needed some help from HPE support, but afterwards on repeating the process it became easier."

"It's not a perfect solution, such as with the customization prompts."

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"There are some conditions in the mail trigger, but you can only use them as an "AND" condition, not as an "OR" condition."

"I want to improve the UI in VisualCron, as it's not as user-friendly, particularly when setting up the task scheduler. If you're familiar with the tool, then no problem, but if not, you'll have a problem typing text because sometimes, the cursor points to other places, so there's an issue with text box alignment in VisualCron. That was painful for me when I was just a VisualCron novice, but when you become used to it, there won't be a problem."

"VisualCron seems to operate like an efficient machine when it comes to improvements and enhancements and new features. I always appreciate the quick response I get when bringing up an issue or coming up with suggestions. I've mentioned before that it would be great to see a move away from SQLCE and XML configuration files."

"Some preferences and permissions are not quite self-explanatory, but those are rather advanced features."

"I've mentioned before that it would be great to see a move away from SQLCE and XML configuration files."

"The error timeout and info could be better. When making web request calls, it will time out sometimes and we won't get any useful info out of the error response."

"I would like for VisualCron to expand audit log to show who changed job variables that are initialized per job run."

"VisualCron is software, and you will experience performance degradation when you scale up. VisualCron takes too much memory or CPU power. We have to increase the hardware resources of a specific server or system."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have a three-year contract with Automation Anywhere."

"There is an annual license to use the solution."

"Automation Anywhere is expensive, making it suitable only for enterprise organizations."

"Automation Anywhere offers a subscription-based licensing model for cloud, on-premises, and hybrid deployments."

"The licensing cost could be improved. It costs a lot. At the very least, the developer licenses and the control panels should be made free to enterprises, and the production environment licensed."

"The cost for scalability is much cheaper than developing a new system."

"AA comes at a more affordable price than the other tools."

"Automation Anywhere is reasonably priced because it can sustain us for a long period."

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"I do not have experience with the pricing or licensing of the product."

"The tool is expensive. I rate the tool a six if one is cheap and ten is very expensive."

"The cost is very high compared to anything else available."

"VisualCron is correctly priced because it wasn't very cheap, and it wasn't overly expensive, so the price for it was set correctly. When my previous company bought VisualCron, it was €800 per server per year. On a scale of one to five, I would rate the pricing for VisualCron a five because it was just right. The tool was affordable, and it has one of the most competitive pricing in the market."

"The price is a bit high."

"ROI is one month."

"ROI is 95 percent."

"We are fine with a rather cheap setup. Licensing with VisualCron is fair. You have a simple one-year licence in different sizes. There isn't a licensing jungle with hundreds of options and opt-ins."

"The pricing is extremely fair, and because of that I recommend purchasing multiple instances to split out the processing load across multiple application servers."

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Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Outsourcing Company

13%

Construction Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

12%

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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	161
Midsize Enterprise	85
Large Enterprise	561

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Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	20

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Midsize Enterprise	1
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Questions from the Community

How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

It depends on your use case. Is it simply to automate a couple of processes? Is it to augment a human team? AA is ver...

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How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

From my experience using AA tool, it depends on the applications that you want to automate, because there some applic...

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How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

It is a highly preferred RPA tool. You can check my Automation Anywhere Review to know more.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Operations Orchestration?

The pricing is medium, and the automation helps in cost and time savings, resulting in substantial value for money.

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What needs improvement with Operations Orchestration?

I would prefer the addition of ready-made workflows for common scenarios such as Oracle database switchovers or Excha...

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What advice do you have for others considering Operations Orchestration?

This tool serves as a central management hub, allowing seamless control of various IT processes via one console. I ra...

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Automation Anywhere, Testing Anywhere, Automation Anywhere Enterprise, Agentic Process Automation System (Now Certified for WorkSpaces)

Micro Focus Operations Orchestration, Operations Orchestration, HPOO, HPE Operations Orchestration

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Overview

Automation Anywhere offers ease of use, robust system connectivity, and GenAI-driven document automation through a cloud-native platform, significantly enhancing productivity across multiple industries with advanced AI features.

Delivering a comprehensive suite of tools designed for easy integration and rapid deployment, Automation Anywhere drives efficiency by reducing costs and automating repetitive tasks. Its cloud-native platform supports broad industry adoption, including advanced AI features like process automation and Co-Pilot, streamlining complex workflows with minimal technical skills required. Users benefit from robust integration capabilities, which facilitate seamless interaction with multiple systems. However, there is room for improvement in areas such as user-friendliness for beginners, stability, flexible licensing, and enhanced OCR functionality. Organizations in sectors such as banking, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare gain from the improved operational efficiency and ROI Automation Anywhere offers.

What are the important features of Automation Anywhere?

Ease of Use: Simplifies automation tasks with a user-centric interface.
Robust Connectivity: Provides seamless integration with multiple systems.
GenAI-Driven Document Automation: Leverages AI to automate document management.
Process Automation & Co-Pilot: Enhances workflow automation with advanced AI.
Cloud-Native Platform: Enables rapid deployment and integration.

What benefits should be evaluated in reviews?

Time Savings: Automation drastically reduces manual processing time.
Cost Efficiency: Decreases overall operational costs by automating tasks.
Productivity Enhancement: Streamlines workflows with AI-driven tools.
Improved Integration: Enhances ability to work with multiple systems.
Scalability: Supports growth with a flexible cloud-native architecture.

In the insurance industry, Automation Anywhere is utilized for automating processes such as enrollment management and compliance checks. Its applications extend to supply chain management, financial transactions, and business performance monitoring across sectors like banking, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare, helping organizations to automate routine tasks, improve efficiency, and reduce costs.

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OpenText Operations Orchestration offers robust IT process management with extensive automation capabilities, centralized administration, and flexible configurations. It is ideal for managing server estates and integrating with platforms like ServiceNow.

OpenText Operations Orchestration streamlines IT operations through automation, reducing manual interventions and promoting efficiency. It offers a graphical interface for building workflows, flexible licensing, and comprehensive reporting. This platform supports integration across IT domains, promising seamless process management. The tool stands out in incident management, change management, and workflow automation, supporting infrastructure monitoring in virtual machines, operating systems, and databases. Users benefit from both agent-based and agentless configurations, with a scalable solution facilitating expansion from runbook automation to full IT process solutions.

What are the key features of OpenText Operations Orchestration?

Centralized Administration: Manage extensive server estates with ease.
Graphical Workflow Building: A GU-based interface simplifies workflow automation.
Flexible Licensing: Adapt your licensing to specific needs.
Robust Orchestration: Enhance efficiency with detailed orchestration and reporting.
Seamless Integration: Connect easily with tools like ServiceNow.
Community and Support: Access ready-made workflows through a strong community.

What benefits and ROI should users consider?

Time Efficiency: Automation reduces manual labor and saves time.
Improved Productivity: The tool enhances productivity by simplifying complex tasks.
Scalability: Scales horizontally to accommodate growing demands.
Cost-Effectiveness: Potential for reduced operational costs with automated solutions.

In the IT industry, OpenText Operations Orchestration is leveraged for automating workflows and managing changes and incidents. It plays a crucial role in infrastructure monitoring, including virtual machines, operating systems, applications, and databases. Users implement it for auto-healing tasks, expanding from initial runbook automation to comprehensive IT solutions.

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VisualCron offers task automation through a visual interface, eliminating the need for programming skills. With capabilities like alerting and variable usage, users benefit from integration with databases, timely task execution, and cross-platform operations.

VisualCron empowers users by simplifying complex workflows. It allows seamless task automation through features like interactive scheduling and role-based operations. Users appreciate its integration capabilities, replacing multiple tools with a comprehensive automation solution. The support system ensures quick assistance, making it a reliable choice for workflow visualization and task execution. However, areas like error handling and interface design require enhancements for improved user experience.

What are the key features of VisualCron?

Visual Interface: Users automate tasks without needing programming skills.
Integration: Connects with databases and multiple systems to streamline operations.
Alerting: Notifies users about tasks and system statuses.
Task Scheduling: Allows interactive management of automated tasks.
Credentials Management: Enables cross-platform operations securely.

What benefits can users expect when evaluating VisualCron?

Increased Efficiency: Reduces the time spent on manual processes.
Cost Reduction: Eliminates the need for multiple tools by consolidating functionalities.
Enhanced Support: Offers robust post-sales support for quicker assistance.
Streamlined Workflows: Simplifies complex task automation.

Organizations leverage VisualCron in industries like finance and logistics to automate tasks such as encryption and secure file transfers. It's also integral in managing data operations, facilitating communications between systems, and executing SQL jobs, enhancing operational efficiency across sectors.

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Sample Customers

Google, Linkedin, Cisco, Juniper Networks, DellEMC, Comcast, Mastercard, Quest Diagnostics

Casablanca INT, Internet Initiative Japan, Railway Information Systems, Samsung SDS, and Turkcell.

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