We performed a comparison between ActiveBatch Workload Automation and AppWorx Workload 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 offers a versatile and user-friendly interface with prebuilt jobs and streamlined batch processing. It also provides process automation, PowerShell and VBScript features, and real-time job scheduling and monitoring. The automation is scalable and intelligent, and it has REST API adapters and native integrations. AppWorx Workload Automation focuses on simplicity and reliable performance. It has a user-friendly interface and is specifically designed for running nightly jobs and conducting calculations and processes during nighttime hours.
ActiveBatch Workload Automation could benefit from improvements in managed file transfer, transitioning to a subscription model, incorporating cloud aspects, enhancing the user interface, enhancing cloud platform capabilities, integrating with DevOps, improving beginner-friendliness, optimizing the help center, streamlining software setup, refining email alerts, addressing lag/stability issues, expanding customization options, and enhancing customer support. Users of AppWorx Workload Automation are seeking improvements in API integration, better integration with other tools, and enhanced scalability.
Service and Support: ActiveBatch Workload Automation has been commended for its excellent customer service, characterized by dependable technical support. Nevertheless, there are concerns regarding the service model and availability of the hotline. AppWorx Workload Automation has garnered praise for its outstanding customer support.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for ActiveBatch Workload Automation is straightforward and uncomplicated, with no significant challenges encountered. However, there is a slight requirement for additional documentation when importing files. The setup for AppWorx Workload Automation is relatively simple, although it may seem intricate to individuals who are unfamiliar with the system. It necessitates the involvement and access of an administrator.
Pricing: Based on user feedback, ActiveBatch Workload Automation is favored over AppWorx Workload Automation for its lower initial investment requirement. Users have reported cost-effectiveness and affordability as key advantages of ActiveBatch.
ROI: ActiveBatch Workload Automation has received positive feedback from users regarding its effectiveness and financial advantages. Users have reported substantial growth in net revenue. There is a lack of information regarding the return on investment for AppWorx Workload Automation.
Comparison Results: ActiveBatch is the preferred product. ActiveBatch offers a simpler setup process, versatile and user-friendly features, excellent scheduling and monitoring capabilities, and a highly regarded alerting mechanism. It also provides scalability, intelligent automation, and seamless integration with various systems.
"It can connect to a number of third-party/legacy systems."
"ActiveBatch provides summary reports and logs for further analysis and improvements in monitoring servers, which is very handy."
"There are hundreds of pre-built steps."
"The automation feature is a very valuable feature as the associates do not have to worry about performing repetitive tasks (i.e. endpoint security scans on a daily basis) that would take several hours to complete on a daily basis."
"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."
"It has helped with scheduling complex jobs with simple scripts."
"The most valuable feature is its stability. We've only had very minor issues and generally they have happened because someone has applied a patch on a Windows operating system and it has caused some grief. We've actually been able to resolve those issues quite quickly with ActiveBatch. In all the time that I've had use of ActiveBatch, it hasn't failed completely once. Uptime is almost 100 percent."
"The REST API adapters and native integrations for integrating and orchestrating the software stack are very flexible."
"It is really a robust product."
"It has improved my organization through automation of back office and infrastructure procedures, and by integrating and orchestrating key business applications spanning multiple technology stacks."
"The interface is good."
"The most valuable features of AppWorx Workload Automation are simplicity and reliability. Additionally, they recently transformed the UI which is better."
"We have a lot of nightly jobs that need to be run. Therefore, we perform a lot of calculations and processes during nighttime hours."
"Scheduling is a good feature."
"The solution is very user friendly so anyone can use it."
"The automated solution is the most valuable piece. Otherwise, we would have to be doing everything manually on every server."
"Some improvements can be made to the user interface."
"As more organizations are moving towards a cloud-based infrastructure, ActiveBatch could incorporate more capabilities that support popular cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud."
"They should offer pricing that is more affordable."
"Some of the advanced features in the user interface are a bit confusing even after referring to the documents."
"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."
"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 help center and documentation are not that helpful."
"It could be easier to provide dashboards on how many jobs are running at the same time; more monitoring."
"The internal security model can be complex when configuring multiple user groups."
"It is not really scaling per say because they are not putting much into it. They are trying to push their new product."
"The compliance features are limited to the server and not the entire infrastructure."
"It is difficult to integrate with the Active Directory (AD)."
"The graphical interface is pretty cool but not the best so it could use some improvement."
"The scalability could improve."
"Reporting, forecasting and intelligence could be improved."
"It has been a deprecated product, because it is so old. There has been a couple of new solutions that are a little more advanced."
ActiveBatch by Redwood is ranked 4th in Workload Automation with 35 reviews while AppWorx Workload Automation is ranked 17th in Workload Automation with 7 reviews. ActiveBatch by Redwood is rated 9.2, while AppWorx Workload Automation 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 AppWorx Workload Automation writes "The scheduling tool and finance module are valuable features". ActiveBatch by Redwood is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Tidal by Redwood, Redwood RunMyJobs and VisualCron, whereas AppWorx Workload Automation is most compared with Automic Workload Automation, Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Automic Automation Intelligence and Stonebranch. See our ActiveBatch by Redwood vs. AppWorx Workload Automation report.
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