We performed a comparison between ActiveBatch Workload Automation and Redwood Software Workload Automation Edition 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 wide range of valuable features such as its flexibility, user-friendly interface, ready-made job templates, automated scheduling, live monitoring, and exceptional customer assistance. Redwood Software shines in its robust job creation, seamless job importing, user access control, error management capabilities, and efficient task scheduling.
ActiveBatch can enhance its managed file transfer, user interface, reliability of triggers, monitoring dashboard, documentation, support service, cloud capabilities, and integration with DevOps tools. Meanwhile, Redwood Software can improve its reporting features, monitoring and alert service, user interface, outage identification, customer support, security standards, and application integration. Both products recognize the need for improvement in various aspects of their offerings.
Service and Support: Users have praised ActiveBatch Workload Automation's customer service for being helpful, reliable, and responsive. They appreciate the support team's ability to provide workarounds, a clear knowledge base, and useful information. However, some users believe that there is room for improvement in certain situations. Redwood's customer service has also received positive feedback for being good and helpful, with consistent and well-delivered support.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for ActiveBatch Workload Automation was straightforward and uncomplicated overall. However, it did present some challenges when configuring it on various operating systems. The initial setup for Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition was deemed intricate and time-consuming, mainly due to the large number of tasks and the complexity of the pre-existing system.
Pricing: ActiveBatch Workload Automation has a straightforward and quick setup process, and users find the pricing to be reasonable and competitive. Redwood Software has a unique pricing model based on job executions, which is considered cost-effective. Although the setup cost may be a bit pricey, users believe it is worth it.
ROI: ActiveBatch Workload Automation has proven to be highly effective in generating a notable boost in net revenue, with estimates ranging from 20% to 30%. Redwood users have experienced a return on investment of 10% and have expressed appreciation for its ability to meet client needs.
Comparison Results: ActiveBatch Workload Automation outperforms Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition. Users appreciate ActiveBatch's straightforward setup, flexibility, user-friendliness, ready-to-use jobs, intuitive interface, real-time monitoring, exceptional customer support, scalability, and extensive library of prebuilt job steps.
"Approximately ~20 hours of manual effort have been reduced to ~5 hours with the help of ActiveBatch."
"The user interface is really incredible."
"It is very useful in sending confidential files through FPP servers."
"From a scheduling point of view, it is pretty good."
"The REST API adapters and native integrations for integrating and orchestrating the software stack are very flexible."
"The product offers a centralized platform for managing activities across many environments, applications, etc."
"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."
"As far as centralization goes it's nice because we can see all these processes that are tied to this larger process. The commissions, FTP processing, the reporting, the file moves to the business users — all that is right there. It's very easy to read. It's easy to tie it together, visually, and see where each of these steps fits into the bigger picture."
"Redwood is of value to our organization due to of its ease of use and the ability to automate and orchestrate any platform that we utilize today."
"It conjures simplicity from the depths of complexity, effortlessly shouldering burdensome workloads."
"Redwood RunMyJobs has been very useful for job scheduling and checking and monitoring jobs."
"REL expressions are quite helpful for setting up the preconditions."
"One of Redwood Software's features that I liked was its event-driven automation, which allows IT teams to respond to real-time events, alerts, and notifications from numerous systems."
"We can achieve anything that anything that we would like to do. In SAP, it's not generally possible with just with SAP. So we have solution manager as an option, but run by job."
"Multi-platform scheduling makes it easier this way rather than accessing one platform at a time."
"It's a very powerful tool. It has a lot of flexibility for how you can define jobs and build them. There are different ways in which you can construct jobs depending on your specific needs and requirements."
"The help center and documentation are not that helpful."
"Whenever there is an overload, we are seeing crashes happening."
"The documentation is very limited, and it can be improved."
"Some of the advanced features in the user interface are a bit confusing even after referring to the documents."
"Some improvements can be made to the user interface."
"It does have a little bit of a learning curve because it is fairly complex. You have to learn how it does things. I don't know if it's any worse than any other tool would be, just because of the nature of what it does... the learning curve is the hardest part."
"Providing some detailed training materials could be very helpful for new users who have very limited technical information about the tool."
"The UI could potentially offer a more refined and user-friendly experience, fostering smoother interactions and facilitating easier navigation for users engaging with the application."
"The product can improve customer service."
"The user interface of Redwood can be improved a bit to make it more user-friendly and interesting."
"The solution should have more focus on security standards."
"Redwood RunMyJobs should add more good features."
"It has limited reporting features; some basic reporting features are missing."
"I have not noted any downsides."
"Having a graphical user interface for the dashboard would be great."
"It would be nice if Redwood RunMyJobs could work on different systems."
ActiveBatch by Redwood is ranked 4th in Workload Automation with 35 reviews while Redwood RunMyJobs is ranked 3rd in Workload Automation with 30 reviews. ActiveBatch by Redwood is rated 9.2, while Redwood RunMyJobs is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of ActiveBatch by Redwood writes "Flexible, easy to use, and offers good automation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Redwood RunMyJobs writes "Simple to use, increases CPU speed, and reduces the cost of machine time". ActiveBatch by Redwood is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Tidal by Redwood, IBM Workload Automation and VisualCron, whereas Redwood RunMyJobs is most compared with Control-M, Stonebranch, Tidal by Redwood, AutoSys Workload Automation and Automic Automation Intelligence. See our ActiveBatch by Redwood vs. Redwood RunMyJobs report.
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