Fortra's Automate pros and cons

Vendor: Fortra

4.2 out of 5

20 reviews

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Fortra's Automate Pros review quotes

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reviewer2237571

IT Manager at a transportation company with 51-200 employees

Jul 17, 2023

Compared to other vendors, it's the scheduling tool because a lot of vendors want to charge you extra for their enterprise-level license to have a scheduling tool built in to give you the ability to set up regular schedules to run and do certain data checks.

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BahatiAsher Faith

Software Developer at Appnomu Business Services

Mar 16, 2023

It's very easy to use. That's a big selling point for it. It has got a drag-and-drop interface, so you can quickly deploy bots.

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Vinayak Hariharan

Robotic Process Automation Developer at Bulwark Technologies L.L.C.

Mar 20, 2023

The best feature of Automate is its ease of use, which is a major selling point.

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Account Director at Software Greenhouse

Nov 28, 2022

We have tried other RPA solutions like UiPath or Automation Anywhere. They are fantastic products but complex, and it's hard to understand everything. It would be best if you had a skilled developer or several. Automate is easy to implement, administer, and use. It's appropriate for us because our cases are simple and easy to automate. We don't need complicated tools with many features; We prefer to get a significant ROI quickly.

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Systems Configuration Engineer/Move-it Administrator at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 19, 2022

I like the interface; it makes managing automation easy. We can set different schedules and templates for each task.

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reviewer2291022

Continuous improvement coordinator at a insurance company with 11-50 employees

Nov 8, 2023

I find it very user-friendly. Our IT department and other departments can seamlessly collaborate without requiring extensive training. As a business department, we particularly value this aspect, as our team doesn't consist of many IT users. However, we couldn't solely rely on a drag-and-drop approach to implement and utilize the solution within our departments.

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Steven Helfgott

EDI Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 201-500 employees

Mar 22, 2023

Fortra's Automate performs the job effectively and has the capability to alert us of any issues.

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Data Automation Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Jun 1, 2023

The ability to connect to websites and pull data is the solution's most valuable feature.

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reviewer2143353

Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Mar 29, 2023

It gives us a central place to schedule tasks and run them distributed.

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Fortra's Automate Cons review quotes

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reviewer2237571

IT Manager at a transportation company with 51-200 employees

Jul 17, 2023

It would be an improvement if Automate had better stability tools, whether by recommending a certain amount of memory because it can be a memory hog at times.

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BahatiAsher Faith

Software Developer at Appnomu Business Services

Mar 16, 2023

Error messages should be better. For error status, there should be better documentation because a lot of times, error messages that you get are quite vague. For example, you get a message saying that the workflow has run into an unknown status, which is vague. It just tells you that it failed, but you don't know how or why it failed. It makes debugging difficult.

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Vinayak Hariharan

Robotic Process Automation Developer at Bulwark Technologies L.L.C.

Mar 20, 2023

The documentation for errors needs improvement as many of the error messages we receive are very vague.

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Account Director at Software Greenhouse

Nov 28, 2022

The intelligent automation feature could be improved. It's interesting because it's simple, but the automation quality isn't always good. It's easy to use, but sometimes you need to make a slight improvement to the automation, and that's not so easy.

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Systems Configuration Engineer/Move-it Administrator at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 19, 2022

There is room for improvement regarding cloud functionality; there are a few missing features, and the logging could be better, especially air logging. We can go into logging events and create our own task, but it would be nice if this were more detailed.

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reviewer2291022

Continuous improvement coordinator at a insurance company with 11-50 employees

Nov 8, 2023

I believe we need to test various OCR tools that assist in evaluating, let's say, six different customer resyncs. We analyze their spending patterns and documentations, but current OCR support has limitations, requiring highly standardized documents, which isn't always the case. With a more advanced OCR system, we could improve processes related to credit risk management and legal matters. We're exploring how to integrate Fortra's Automate with our CRM platform, taking cues from instances where Salesforce seamlessly merged with Automate. However, we use a different CRM, Insight for New Enterprise, and we're seeking ways to connect the automation process within our CRM. We aim for the automation to continue smoothly, even in instances where traditional automation methods might face hurdles.

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Steven Helfgott

EDI Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 201-500 employees

Mar 22, 2023

Sometimes when we communicate with the ERP system and there is an issue, we are not always aware of the specifics of Automate and the source of the problem.

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Data Automation Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Jun 1, 2023

Fortra's Automate is not as reliable as I would like it to be.

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reviewer2143353

Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Mar 29, 2023

The workflow for variables could be better. The input and output of task-level variables could be made a little clearer in terms of passing those around from one task to another upon success, etc. Things like that could be a little easier potentially.

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