We performed a comparison between ActiveBatch by Redwood and Appian based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Process Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The nice thing about ActiveBatch is once we have created a specific job that can be easily be replicated to another job, then minimal changes will have to be made. This makes things nice. Reduction of coding is substantial in a lot of cases. The replication of one job to another is just doing a few minor tweaks and rolling it into production. This decreases our development costs substantially."
"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."
"The product offers a centralized platform for managing activities across many environments, applications, etc."
"Error Handling is one of the best standout features of ActiveBatch."
"Easy to configure and simple to develop new features."
"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."
"For developers, it is easy to orchestrate the workflows and the integration has been very easy."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is the versatility of the prebuilt jobs."
"The most valuable feature is business automation."
"Another advantage of this tool is its reports and records. You can maintain dashboards, layouts. If you with a Java solution, it takes six months time. If you use this tool, you can finish in one or one and a half months' time."
"There is a version coming out every six months with performance improvements."
"Compared to other code tools that I've seen, Appian has a more robust rules engine"
"Technical support is helpful."
"The setup is easy."
"The most productive aspect of Appian lies in its ability to develop interfaces, particularly user interfaces. Creating user interfaces is highly productive, when these interfaces are integrated with the original database. In such cases, using record types proves to be a very efficient method of handling data. The synergy between interfaces and record types enhances productivity."
"It has created executable requirements and speeds up the SDLC process greatly."
"The help center and documentation are not that helpful."
"Whenever there is an overload, we are seeing crashes happening."
"It could be easier to provide dashboards on how many jobs are running at the same time; more monitoring."
"Some improvements can be made to the user interface."
"The product should be improved by providing a customization option."
"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."
"Except for the GUI, everything looks good."
"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 graphical user interface could be easier to use. It should be simplified."
"Architecture of product and scalabiility issues."
"It would be useful if they could create an academy or forum in the future to help active users answer questions they have about the solution."
"Occasionally, certain pre-made modules may not be necessary and customers may desire greater customization options. Instead of being limited to pre-designed features, they may prefer a more flexible version that allows for greater customization."
"It is difficult to set up the on-premise version."
"Lacks integration with other products."
"The solution needs more features. For example, a way to connect to our viewing database, to record, and more interface and component design."
"While Appian is generally flexible, it's rigid in some ways. It takes longer to do something that isn't available out of the box."
ActiveBatch by Redwood is ranked 6th in Process Automation with 35 reviews while Appian is ranked 3rd in Process Automation with 58 reviews. ActiveBatch by Redwood is rated 9.2, while Appian is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of ActiveBatch by Redwood writes "Flexible, easy to use, and offers good automation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". ActiveBatch by Redwood is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Tidal by Redwood, Redwood RunMyJobs and VisualCron, whereas Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Pega BPM. See our ActiveBatch by Redwood vs. Appian report.
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