We performed a comparison between ActiveBatch by Redwood and IBM Sterling File Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Progress Software, BMC, IBM and others in Managed File Transfer (MFT)."It can connect to a number of third-party/legacy systems."
"The REST API adapters and native integrations for integrating and orchestrating the software stack are very flexible."
"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."
"It has helped with scheduling complex jobs with simple scripts."
"From a scheduling point of view, it is pretty good."
"The product offers a centralized platform for managing activities across many environments, applications, etc."
"The most valuable feature is its stability. We've only had very minor issues and generally they have happened because someone has applied a patch on a Windows operating system and it has caused some grief. We've actually been able to resolve those issues quite quickly with ActiveBatch. In all the time that I've had use of ActiveBatch, it hasn't failed completely once. Uptime is almost 100 percent."
"We are able to integrate it into multiple third-party tools like email, backup, tracking systems, SharePoint, Slack alerts, etc."
"The most valuable aspect is that it has good functionality."
"Very high functionality with the ability to plug in your own code."
"I have found almost all the features valuable."
"It offers easy utilization of resources for smooth transfers."
"It's highly configurable, there is no need for standalone scripting."
"This product has been a leader in the field of secure file exchange."
"It could be easier to provide dashboards on how many jobs are running at the same time; more monitoring."
"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."
"The product should be improved by providing a customization option."
"ActiveBatch UI could use a little more help, and video tutorials would be greatly appreciated for user guides."
"The documentation is very limited, and it can be improved."
"They should offer pricing that is more affordable."
"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."
"The interface is not that user-friendly and is a little tough to navigate."
"The API capabilities could be expanded to make integration more versatile."
"I would like to see auto-deployment without service disruptions."
"IBM is advising not to use the IT translate anymore but this is going to be an extra cost to the customer to use the alternative."
"Too many features; UI is not good."
"Not a ten because it's a bit complex, not so simple. It's one product but there are many screens."
"The admin console needs some work."
ActiveBatch by Redwood is ranked 5th in Managed File Transfer (MFT) with 35 reviews while IBM Sterling File Gateway is ranked 4th in Managed File Transfer (MFT) with 6 reviews. ActiveBatch by Redwood is rated 9.2, while IBM Sterling File Gateway is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of ActiveBatch by Redwood writes "Flexible, easy to use, and offers good automation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Sterling File Gateway writes "Easy to use with good validation and monitoring of the file transfer". ActiveBatch by Redwood is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Tidal by Redwood, Redwood RunMyJobs and IBM Workload Automation, whereas IBM Sterling File Gateway is most compared with MOVEit, Sterling Commerce Connect:Direct, Aspera Managed File Transfer, BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer and Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT.
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