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.
"From a scheduling point of view, it is pretty good."
"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."
"One of the most valuable features is the job templates. If we need to create an FTP job, we just drag over the FTP template and fill out the requirements using the variables that ActiveBatch uses. And that makes it reusable. We can create a job once but use it for many different clients."
"Easy to configure and simple to develop new features."
"ActiveBatch helped us automate and schedule routine tasks such as data backups, file transfers, database updates, and report generation, which frees IT staff to focus on other studies."
"The REST API adapters and native integrations for integrating and orchestrating the software stack are very flexible."
"Error Handling is one of the best standout features of ActiveBatch."
"ActiveBatch can automate predictable, repeatable processes very well. There is no real trick to what ActiveBatch does. ActiveBatch does exactly what you would expect a scheduling piece of software to do. It does it in a timely manner and does it with very little outside interference and fanfare. It runs when it is supposed to, and I don't have to jump through a bunch of hoops to double check it."
"The automated alert response is very useful for long-running and failed jobs during off-business hours."
"This tool helps us to monitor the job related to SAP modules."
"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."
"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."
"It can centralize and support on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments seamlessly."
"Redwood RunMyJobs has been very useful for job scheduling and checking and monitoring jobs."
"It has advanced features like dashboards where users can see all statistics."
"Our team was able to integrate it with the ITSM tool as well as security monitoring tools to make the incident creation process automatically feasible."
"They could provide an easier installation guide or technical support to the organizations during the installation process."
"The help center and documentation are not that helpful."
"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."
"It could be easier to provide dashboards on how many jobs are running at the same time; more monitoring."
"The interface is not that user-friendly and is a little tough to navigate."
"There is this back and forth, where ActiveBatch says, "Your Oracle people should be dealing with this," and Oracle people say, "No, we don't know anything about ActiveBatch." Then, it all falls back on me as to what happens. Nobody is taking responsibility. This is the biggest failing for ActiveBatch."
"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."
"Having a graphical user interface for the dashboard would be great."
"There is a lack of resources and product documentation which, if included, would help to gain more knowledge about the application."
"The user interface of Redwood can be improved a bit to make it more user-friendly and interesting."
"Customer support should be enhanced so that we can automatically raise tickets and incidents in customer service."
"We need the automatic creation of incidents for failed jobs."
"The solution should have more focus on security standards."
"The reports are downloaded in .CAR file format, which makes it difficult to convert to an Excel file."
"The documentation for this product is limited, which can be improved in the future."
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, VisualCron and MOVEit, whereas Redwood RunMyJobs is most compared with Control-M, Stonebranch, Tidal by Redwood, AutoSys Workload Automation and Automic Workload Automation. See our ActiveBatch by Redwood vs. Redwood RunMyJobs report.
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