We performed a comparison between ActiveBatch Workload Automation and Tidal Automation 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 is highly praised for its versatility and ease of use. Users appreciate the prebuilt jobs and real-time monitoring capabilities, as well as the automatic scheduling feature. Tidal Automation is known for its excellent job scheduling and single pane of glass interface, which allows for convenient management. Users also value the flexibility in running jobs and the data security features offered by Tidal Automation.
ActiveBatch could improve licensing, user interface, trigger reliability, documentation, support services, and integration capabilities. Tidal Automation could benefit from enhancements in its user interface, pricing model, integration options, and customization features.
Service and Support: Users have provided positive feedback for the customer service of ActiveBatch Workload Automation, appreciating the helpfulness, reliability, and responsiveness of the support team. However, there are concerns regarding the service model and availability of the hotline. Tidal Automation has highly praised customer service that is responsive, knowledgeable, and willing to assist. The experienced support team promptly addresses problems, although there are occasional mentions of lower-priority items being overlooked.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for ActiveBatch Workload Automation was smooth and straightforward, without any significant challenges. However, there was a minor requirement for additional documentation during the file import. The setup for Tidal Automation was described as easy to handle and uncomplicated, with useful documentation available. Some users expressed a desire for more training to tackle complex tasks.
Pricing: Users find the setup cost for ActiveBatch Workload Automation to be quick and straightforward. The pricing is seen as reasonable and competitive. Tidal Automation's pricing is also fair and predictable, with a transparent licensing model. However, some users mention the complexity of licensing when additional adapters are required.
ROI: ActiveBatch Workload Automation is highly regarded for its ability to enhance net revenue, offering a valuable solution. Tidal Automation streamlines operations, mitigates risks, and consolidates tasks, providing substantial benefits in terms of reducing manual efforts and improving overall job management.
Comparison Results: Tidal Automation is the favored choice over ActiveBatch Workload Automation. Users commend Tidal Automation's job scheduler, streamlined interface, and ability to run jobs on various servers. The user-friendly interface and seamless integration with other systems are also highly regarded.
"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."
"Error Handling is one of the best standout features of ActiveBatch."
"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."
"It has helped with scheduling complex jobs with simple scripts."
"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."
"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."
"What ActiveBatch allows you to do is develop a more efficient process. It gave me visibility into all my jobs so I could choose which jobs to run in parallel. This is much easier than when I have to try to do it through cron for Windows XP, where you really can't do things in parallel and know what is going on."
"Approximately ~20 hours of manual effort have been reduced to ~5 hours with the help of ActiveBatch."
"It's the most efficient tool in doing repetitive tasks and saves a lot of time with minimum possibility of error."
"The feature that I find to be valuable, as I'm working with other folks, is the ability to cross-schedule across platforms, and the flexibility that comes with that."
"I like the fact that I have control, and I am able to monitor. If there is an issue, I would be able to respond to any jobs that may fail. With any other scheduler that I know of, a lot of times, when I have a very complex script, if there is an issue in the middle of it, I have to let the whole process fail and then figure out a way to recover from it, whereas Tidal will stop the process, and I can resolve that issue. Once I resolve the issue, I can continue the process. This is very important for invoicing, accounts payable, accounts receivable, or any kind of financial reporting. It allows you to recover from an issue much more effectively than anything else that I have seen."
"We had a number of different schedulers in this organization and we've been porting everything that was running out of these other, unrelated schedulers into this scheduler. That has afforded us the ability to set up direct dependencies between processes that couldn't talk to one another before. Over the 15 years, we've definitely gained a lot from that. What had been manual controls have become automated controls..."
"The first, big thing that we got out of using Tidal Workload Automation was having a centralized view of the status of all of our batch processes across all these systems... We can look into the schedule at any given time and see if things are running on track or if they are falling behind. We can also see if something failed."
"By leveraging machine learning algorithms, Tidal Automation can use this data to optimize turbine settings and improve overall efficiency and performance."
"Tidal Automation offers extensive monitoring and reporting features that let users keep track of the status of their workflows and quickly spot any problems."
"From a management standpoint, when using the solution for cross-platform, cross-application workloads, I've never had a problem with the application. It's very interactive, especially with the different security levels that they offer."
"We have faced a couple of issues where we were supposed to log a defect with ActiveBatch. That said, the Active batch Vendor Support is very responsive and reliable."
"The documentation is very limited, and it can be improved."
"Some improvements can be made to the user interface."
"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."
"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."
"The reporting needs improvement. There is a real need for the ability to generate audit reports on the fly. It needs to be a lot easier than what I can do right now. This is a major item for me."
"An area for improvement in ActiveBatch Workload Automation is its interface or GUI. It could be a little better. There isn't any additional feature I'd like to see in the tool, except for the GUI, everything looks good."
"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."
"They can do better reporting in terms of production statistics reporting."
"It takes a lot of time to learn the product. I have admins and developers who are working on the products for the last three to four years and still don't know all the functionalities. Tidal has really great things about it, but people are focused on their day-to-day job and the solution is not intuitive."
"For the most part, the drill-down and the logging are really good. But if we take an Informatica job, for example: We have the ability, and the operators have the ability, to actually drill down and see, at a session level, where the failure is. There is, unfortunately, no way to extract that into an actual output email or failure email. It's not that that information is not available, but extracting it into an email would be a nice-to-have."
"To better fit their unique needs, the solution should give more customization options."
"The product’s UI is outdated. They should work on this particular area."
"Tidal's adaptability and user-friendliness could be increased by integrating it with additional programmes and platforms."
"The GUI, the graphical user interface, gets a little bit busy."
"Tidal Automation could be further integrated with other systems used in the operation of tidal energy systems, such as weather forecasting tools, energy management systems, or asset management software."
ActiveBatch by Redwood is ranked 4th in Workload Automation with 35 reviews while Tidal by Redwood is ranked 2nd in Workload Automation with 37 reviews. ActiveBatch by Redwood is rated 9.2, while Tidal by Redwood is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of ActiveBatch by Redwood writes "Flexible, easy to use, and offers good automation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tidal by Redwood writes "Great visibility with a single pane of glass and a low learning curve". ActiveBatch by Redwood is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Redwood RunMyJobs, IBM Workload Automation and JSCAPE by Redwood, whereas Tidal by Redwood is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, IBM Workload Automation, Redwood RunMyJobs and Rocket Zeke. See our ActiveBatch by Redwood vs. Tidal by Redwood report.
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