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.
"The product offers a centralized platform for managing activities across many environments, applications, etc."
"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."
"It is very useful in sending confidential files through FPP servers."
"ActiveBatch provides summary reports and logs for further analysis and improvements in monitoring servers, which is very handy."
"Since I started using this product, I have been able to easily track everything as it mainly monitors, alerts, and looks after all the services - even across platform scheduling - which has helped me immensely."
"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."
"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."
"Easy to configure and simple to develop new features."
"It is really a robust product."
"We have a lot of nightly jobs that need to be run. Therefore, we perform a lot of calculations and processes during nighttime hours."
"The solution is very user friendly so anyone can use it."
"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 automated solution is the most valuable piece. Otherwise, we would have to be doing everything manually on every server."
"The most valuable features of AppWorx Workload Automation are simplicity and reliability. Additionally, they recently transformed the UI which is better."
"Scheduling is a good feature."
"The interface is good."
"The help center and documentation are not that helpful."
"An area for improvement in ActiveBatch Workload Automation is its interface or GUI. It could be a little better. There isn't any additional feature I'd like to see in the tool, except for the GUI, everything looks good."
"One thing I've noticed is that navigation can be difficult unless you are familiar with the structure that we have in place. If someone else had to look at our ActiveBatch console and find a job, they might not know where to find it."
"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."
"They have some crucial design flaws within the console that still need to be worked out because it is not working exactly how we hoped to see it, e.g., just some minor things where when you hit the save button, then all of a sudden all your job's library items collapse. Then, in order to continue on with your testing, you have to open those back up. I have taken that to them, and they are like, "Yep. We know about it. We know we have some enhancements that need to be taken care of. We have more developers now." They are working towards taking the minor things that annoy us, resolving them, and getting them fixed."
"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."
"Whenever there is an overload, we are seeing crashes happening."
"Some improvements can be made to the user interface."
"Reporting, forecasting and intelligence could be improved."
"It is not really scaling per say because they are not putting much into it. They are trying to push their new product."
"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."
"The compliance features are limited to the server and not the entire infrastructure."
"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."
"As a general process automation and integration tool, it has been superseded by other offerings, notably the Workload Automation suite."
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, VisualCron and IBM Workload Automation, 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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