We performed a comparison between ActiveBatch by Redwood and Comindware Tracker based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Camunda, Pega, Appian and others in Process Automation."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."
"I found ActiveBatch Workload Automation to be a very good scheduling tool. What I like best about it is that it has very less downtime when managing many complex scheduling workflows, so I'm very impressed with ActiveBatch Workload Automation."
"The REST API adapters and native integrations for integrating and orchestrating the software stack are very flexible."
"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."
"What ActiveBatch allows you to do is develop a more efficient process. It gave me visibility into all my jobs so I could choose which jobs to run in parallel. This is much easier than when I have to try to do it through cron for Windows XP, where you really can't do things in parallel and know what is going on."
"There are hundreds of pre-built steps."
"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."
"Error Handling is one of the best standout features of ActiveBatch."
"The workflow tracker helps us to track our staff's workflow. It helps us to improve the productivity of our team."
"This solution can be useful for tracking the different stages of projects and the people working on them."
"It provides a scalable solution that should allow me to grow my company without too much fuss or further set up required."
"The most valuable feature is that any non-technical personnel can easily work on the solution, redefining processes and creating drag and drop workflows according to the department or cross-department needs."
"It was easy to set up my team with access credentials to their files."
"It successfully routes hand-offs between different teams, adds transparency to workflows, and has a set of social collaboration tools."
"The feature I have found most valuable is the easy synchronization with other tools."
"The ability to access Comindware Tracker from mobile has been greatly valuable to our organization. We are often out of office and this can create timeframe and task management issues. Being able to access tasks and time tracking while on the move is a great asset."
"The interface is not that user-friendly and is a little tough to navigate."
"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."
"It could be easier to provide dashboards on how many jobs are running at the same time; more monitoring."
"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."
"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."
"The help center and documentation are not that helpful."
"There are some issues with this version and finding the jobs that it ran. If you're looking at 1,000 different jobs, it shows based on the execution time, not necessarily the run time. So, if there was a constraint waiting, you may be looking for it in the wrong time frame. Plus, with thousands of jobs showing up and the way it pages output jobs, sometimes you end up with multiple pages on the screen, then you have to go through to find the specific job you're looking for. On the opposite side, you can limit the daily activity screen to show only jobs that failed or jobs currently running, which will shrink that back down. However, we have operators who are looking at the whole nightly cycle to make sure everything is there and make sure nothing got blocked or was waiting. Sometimes, they have a hard time finding every item within the list."
"I would like them to offer a one-time payment plan that one can choose."
"This solution lacks API integration with some popular websites."
"I am expecting new updates to improve the software."
"There are not very many report templates, and if there were more, it would really help."
"Figuring out how to integrate defined teams or groups into this system is difficult, and there are no contextual menus."
"If your organization has only a few team members then this tool is not suitable."
"It would be wonderful to have newer version releases more frequently, but it is quite a minor con."
"The OpenAPI is good, but it is not enough. It lacks out-of-box integrations with popular web services."
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ActiveBatch by Redwood is ranked 6th in Process Automation with 35 reviews while Comindware Tracker is ranked 32nd in Process Automation. ActiveBatch by Redwood is rated 9.2, while Comindware Tracker 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 Comindware Tracker writes "Easy to navigate and great for keeping everybody in the loop". ActiveBatch by Redwood is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Tidal by Redwood, VisualCron and IBM Workload Automation, whereas Comindware Tracker is most compared with .
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