We performed a comparison between ActiveBatch by Redwood and HCL Workload Automation 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."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."
"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."
"From a scheduling point of view, it is pretty good."
"It has helped with scheduling complex jobs with simple scripts."
"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."
"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 user interface is really incredible."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is the versatility of the prebuilt jobs."
"Easy to set up, it doesn't require a lot."
"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."
"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."
"They should offer pricing that is more affordable."
"A cloud option is not provided as a free feature, making it a costly solution for smaller organizations."
"The interface is not that user-friendly and is a little tough to navigate."
"Some of the advanced features in the user interface are a bit confusing even after referring to the documents."
"They could provide an easier installation guide or technical support to the organizations during the installation process."
"I have faced struggles to understand, set up the tool, and implement it in my early days as a new user."
"The interface needs some improvements."
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ActiveBatch by Redwood is ranked 4th in Workload Automation with 35 reviews while HCL Workload Automation is ranked 25th in Workload Automation. ActiveBatch by Redwood is rated 9.2, while HCL 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 HCL Workload Automation writes "Easy to set up, good support, and helps to decrease project costs". ActiveBatch by Redwood is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Tidal by Redwood, VisualCron and IBM Workload Automation, whereas HCL Workload Automation is most compared with IBM Workload Automation, Control-M, Stonebranch, AutoSys Workload Automation and Automic Workload Automation.
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