We performed a comparison between ActiveBatch by Redwood and Rocket Zeke based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, Tidal Software by Redwood, Redwood Software and others in Workload Automation."ActiveBatch has reduced work by providing automated workflows across several different applications."
"One of the valuable features is the ability to trigger workflows, one after another, based on success, without having to worry about overlapping workflows. The ability to integrate our BI, analytics, and our data quality jobs is also valuable"
"We use the main job-scheduling feature. It's the only thing we use in the tool. That's the reason we are using the tool: to reduce costs by replacing manual tasks with automated tasks and to perform regular, repetitive tasks in a more reliable way."
"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 and and rerun it themselves."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is the versatility of the prebuilt jobs."
"The REST API adapters and native integrations for integrating and orchestrating the software stack are very flexible."
"It is very useful in sending confidential files through FPP servers."
"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."
"Two features are valuable. One is Rocket Zeke's ability to integrate with the mainframe, which is the main processor using the agent. It works on any computer, so users don't have to wait. They can use their laptop or any other way to connect and securely access all the necessary information. The other valuable feature is automation, which is an integral part of batch processing."
"They should offer pricing that is more affordable."
"The documentation is very limited, and it can be improved."
"Setting up the software was hard."
"ActiveBatch UI could use a little more help, and video tutorials would be greatly appreciated for user guides."
"ActiveBatch is a little complex."
"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."
"The user interface can be improved so that it is more appealing and accessible to new users."
"I have faced struggles to understand, set up the tool, and implement it in my early days as a new user."
"I work a lot with the support side when there are issues. I see a lot of confusion about the various licenses. The licensing model is somewhat complicated. The product license has to be installed. Sometimes, when a license is expiring and I need a new one, it's hard to understand where those licenses are in the guest support portal. I've discussed this with Rocket Zeke, and they've acknowledged that it's too complicated."
ActiveBatch by Redwood is ranked 4th in Workload Automation with 35 reviews while Rocket Zeke is ranked 18th in Workload Automation with 1 review. ActiveBatch by Redwood is rated 9.2, while Rocket Zeke 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 Rocket Zeke writes "It's a reliable solution that gets a lot done quickly". ActiveBatch by Redwood is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Tidal by Redwood, Redwood RunMyJobs and VisualCron, whereas Rocket Zeke is most compared with Rocket Zena, Control-M, Tidal by Redwood, AutoSys Workload Automation and CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence.
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