ActiveBatch supports intelligent automation and has a user-friendly interface.

It has helped many times in saving on the SLA.

This solution is really worth the money.

It pays for itself because it gives the DataOps team more time to be involved in other projects. It allows the organization to move forward without having to worry about doing anything manually. ActiveBatch is performing a huge service to the organization in terms of reducing the number of man-hours required to do manual tasks.

We support an awful lot of clients. I look at what happens within our scheduler every morning for a review, and it is running 2,500 different workflows that probably have on average seven to eight job steps. On a normal day, I may have five that I have to worry about. If something went wrong, then I may have to rerun a job from earlier on, but that's it. There are not a lot of failures in the product.

We run an awfully lean group to accomplish all the work that we have to do. So, there is not a lot of extra time spent running a job. The job runs when it was designed to run, and that's pretty much every day. It does save us a lot of money, certainly more than doing it manually.

In terms of ROI, the solution has saved manual hours (from ~20 hours to ~5 hours in a month) and increased accuracy by ~17%.

Since we are no longer waiting for an operator to see that a job is finished, we have changed our daily cycle from running in eight hours down to about five. We had a third shift-operator retire and that position was never refilled.

The person who used to run all these jobs now just watches the system run. She is doing other stuff while she is working. On top of that, with the pandemic, we have managed to be able to allow our second shift operator to run everything remotely from home. They don't even have to be in the building anymore to run our cycles.

The central automation hub for scheduling and monitoring brings everything together under a single pane of glass by streamlining everything:

1. It takes less time to run everything.
2. It's less expensive because we no longer have the extra operator running jobs.
3. There is less chance of an operator clicking the wrong button because we run both a test system and production system side by side. In the past, where they might have run the job in the wrong system, this makes sure that the correct system is running the right jobs.
4. It automatically will send an output where it needs to go in real-time. We have management reports that used to have to be run by an operator. Now, if management comes in early, the report is there just waiting for them.

ActiveBatch gave us a good ROI in our organization.

I have absolutely seen ROI. Coming from the admin point of view, it has streamlined the process of being able to just implement something instead of having to teach the software how to do its job. From our point, I know that I have implemented a couple of different processes that were not a migration piece, and it's been fairly easy for us to deploy because we know what the business unit wants to do with it. For us to implement, it takes us about 20 minutes to get it perfected on my side, then I can have developers run with it, test it, and figure out what their code was doing to make it happen. So, the biggest thing is that it is easy to use.

I know that there are enough processes out there that it's worth a gold mine. We can automate just about anything that we would ever want to. If we wanted the lights to turn on at a certain time, we could go ahead and turn the lights on at a certain time, and it would just happen.

ActiveBatch's Self-Service Portal allows our business units to run and monitor their own workloads. They can simply run and review the logs, but they can't modify them. It increases their productivity because they are able to take care of things on their own. It saves us time from having to rerun the scripts, because the business units can just go ahead and log in, then rerun it themselves. 

This solution improves our job success rate percentage. The biggest thing is having built-in capabilities of error detection, retries, and the ability to self-heal.

ActiveBatch has saved us man-hours. We don't have to rerun some of these scripts on behalf of the business unit. Or, if there is a script that fails, it can go ahead and self-heal, fixing itself. That is all unaccounted for troubleshooting time while helping our business units. 

Over the years that I have used this, it has probably saved us several hundred hours of development time for other teams and my own. 

The solution has absolutely resulted in an improvement in job success rate percentage. We can see what the problems are and isolate them sooner. We are able to catch these problems and alert people.

It allows for lower operational overhead.

After automating, we are able to achieve our SLA targets thereby reducing the SLA breach and increasing the KPI by 98% - which is a great ROI.

ActiveBatch has saved a significant amount of manual time (from ~25 hours down to ~5 hours), hence bang for the buck.

It's hard to say how many hours it has saved because it is new. There have been a lot of hours put into learning the product. For instance, putting SSIS packages in has required a lot of Knowledge Base research on ActiveBatch's site. The Knowledge Base is tremendous there. I've really never had an issue finding plenty of information, sometimes more than enough information, to decipher. But in terms of man-hours, at this point, it's just figuring out the system and how to set up these jobs to work together. Those savings will definitely really be seen down the road.

But our return on investment is because it has allowed us to move forward with this project. Even with just using new business, it's allowed us to move incredibly fast when it comes to putting these batch processes in place. So far there's limited data and each cycle runs in 10-20 minutes, but at the same time, on the back end, it's providing that foundation. So we'll know what we need to do when we have more data. For example, currently, load-balancing is counterproductive. There's so little processing going on that it would take longer to load balance this 10-minute cycle than it would be to just run straight through.

The product is definitely worth the money.

I have not been in touch with the financial team who would monitor ROI. This is unknown to me.

I've seen ROI from ActiveBatch Workload Automation. It's a very good tool.

We have seen ROI with the solution. It has simplified the warehouse job flow, our analytics workflow, as well as our business intelligence and data quality workflows. I don't know the exact cost per year of the solution, but it has simplified and made things much easier to understand in terms of dependencies among our data flows.

In terms of ROI, ActiveBatch has given significant value to the organization. There have been reduced operational costs and improved efficiency. It has allowed us to allocate the resources more wisely.

It has helped to achieve a 20% to 30% net revenue increase in the last quarter.

With the automation efforts that we have done over the years, we have gotten our money back. We save thousands of man-hours annually.

The use of the solution resulted in an improved job success rate percentage of 90 percent. It reduces manual efforts. Once you take manual efforts out of the equation and put business rules in, we find the failures that occur are usually external to the company, not internal anymore. Job failures during the day are a handful out of a thousand jobs, and usually an external issue. It is external vendors not following their rules, though we have business rules and alerts set up to inform them. We send emails back to external clients, and say, "Something was supposed to be posted, and it wasn't posted." In that sense, it has eliminated a lot of those manual effort steps as well. It is all self-contained in ActiveBatch.

Use of the solution has resulted in a 60 to 70 percent improvement in workflow completion times. 

We have definitely seen ROI. It's a critical component of how we do things now. It has definitely been worth everything we've paid so far, and more.