We performed a comparison between ActiveBatch by Redwood and Nintex Process Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Process Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product offers a centralized platform for managing activities across many environments, applications, etc."
"For developers, it is easy to orchestrate the workflows and the integration has been very easy."
"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."
"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."
"ActiveBatch can automate predictable, repeatable processes very well. There is no real trick to what ActiveBatch does. ActiveBatch does exactly what you would expect a scheduling piece of software to do. It does it in a timely manner and does it with very little outside interference and fanfare. It runs when it is supposed to, and I don't have to jump through a bunch of hoops to double check it."
"It is very useful in sending confidential files through FPP servers."
"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."
"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."
"Valuable features include workflows (escalation, reminder, LazyApproval, actions, etc.) and ease of use."
"The solution has helped us to automate our business processes, our approval systems, and automation for quickly developing on SharePoint on-prem and SharePoint online."
"Allows to use workflow for simple approvals and LazyApproval. The feature is easy to implement for mobile approval."
"It leverages the out-of-the-box SharePoint back-end. This means that you don’t need to install or deploy additional infrastructure to support Nintex Workflow, unlike some of its competitors."
"I like the feature of getting an email for a workflow error, then I do not have to go through every instance."
"I really like the visual representation. It actually looks like a flow chart, which is nicer than a SharePoint Designer workflow, which doesn't have that ability."
"I think the initial setup is fine."
"We were able to meet all of the requirements for functionality that were specified, and we did not experience challenges where we had to compromise on functionality."
"Except for the GUI, everything looks good."
"It could be easier to provide dashboards on how many jobs are running at the same time; more monitoring."
"As more organizations are moving towards a cloud-based infrastructure, ActiveBatch could incorporate more capabilities that support popular cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud."
"The product should be improved by providing a customization option."
"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."
"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."
"Providing some detailed training materials could be very helpful for new users who have very limited technical information about the tool."
"The security features for this solution need to be improved."
"The licensing needs to be improved. Right now, we find it's getting more expensive to use the product."
"The management server and the admin page where you can manage processes need improvement."
"The tool lacks to offer support for the Arabic language, and it needs consideration."
"We'd like to have integration with SharePoint."
"User interface could use some improvement. Perhaps integration with Visual Studio or SharePoint Designer would be useful."
"At times, issues arise in certain scenarios. In such cases, the versioning can become quite difficult. There may be no other way but to restart the entire process or rectify it at that point."
"Built-in reporting on-prem is limited and clunky at best."
ActiveBatch by Redwood is ranked 6th in Process Automation with 35 reviews while Nintex Process Platform is ranked 8th in Process Automation with 21 reviews. ActiveBatch by Redwood is rated 9.2, while Nintex Process Platform 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 Nintex Process Platform writes "Offers good integration capabilities and easy to learn and good stability". ActiveBatch by Redwood is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Tidal by Redwood, VisualCron and IBM Workload Automation, whereas Nintex Process Platform is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Appian, Pega BPM and SAP Signavio Process Manager. See our ActiveBatch by Redwood vs. Nintex Process Platform report.
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