We performed a comparison between ActiveBatch Workload Automation and Redwood Software Workload Automation Edition based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: ActiveBatch Workload Automation offers a wide range of valuable features such as its flexibility, user-friendly interface, ready-made job templates, automated scheduling, live monitoring, and exceptional customer assistance. Redwood Software shines in its robust job creation, seamless job importing, user access control, error management capabilities, and efficient task scheduling.
ActiveBatch can enhance its managed file transfer, user interface, reliability of triggers, monitoring dashboard, documentation, support service, cloud capabilities, and integration with DevOps tools. Meanwhile, Redwood Software can improve its reporting features, monitoring and alert service, user interface, outage identification, customer support, security standards, and application integration. Both products recognize the need for improvement in various aspects of their offerings.
Service and Support: Users have praised ActiveBatch Workload Automation's customer service for being helpful, reliable, and responsive. They appreciate the support team's ability to provide workarounds, a clear knowledge base, and useful information. However, some users believe that there is room for improvement in certain situations. Redwood's customer service has also received positive feedback for being good and helpful, with consistent and well-delivered support.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for ActiveBatch Workload Automation was straightforward and uncomplicated overall. However, it did present some challenges when configuring it on various operating systems. The initial setup for Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition was deemed intricate and time-consuming, mainly due to the large number of tasks and the complexity of the pre-existing system.
Pricing: ActiveBatch Workload Automation has a straightforward and quick setup process, and users find the pricing to be reasonable and competitive. Redwood Software has a unique pricing model based on job executions, which is considered cost-effective. Although the setup cost may be a bit pricey, users believe it is worth it.
ROI: ActiveBatch Workload Automation has proven to be highly effective in generating a notable boost in net revenue, with estimates ranging from 20% to 30%. Redwood users have experienced a return on investment of 10% and have expressed appreciation for its ability to meet client needs.
Comparison Results: ActiveBatch Workload Automation outperforms Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition. Users appreciate ActiveBatch's straightforward setup, flexibility, user-friendliness, ready-to-use jobs, intuitive interface, real-time monitoring, exceptional customer support, scalability, and extensive library of prebuilt job steps.
"We leverage the solution's native integrations regularly. We have to get files from a remote server outside the organization, and even send things outside the organization. We use a lot of its file manipulation and SFTP functionality for contacting remote servers."
"It is very useful in sending confidential files through FPP servers."
"It has helped with scheduling complex jobs with simple scripts."
"The REST API adapters and native integrations for integrating and orchestrating the software stack are very flexible."
"The Jobs Library has been a tremendous asset. For the most, that's what we use. There are some outliers, but we pretty much integrate those Jobs Library steps throughout the process, whether it's REST calls, FTP processes, or file copies and moves... That has helped us to build end-to-end workflows."
"The product offers a centralized platform for managing activities across many environments, applications, etc."
"ActiveBatch provides summary reports and logs for further analysis and improvements in monitoring servers, which is very handy."
"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."
"It can centralize and support on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments seamlessly."
"By automating the job processes it has saved us a lot of time and resources."
"REL expressions are quite helpful for setting up the preconditions."
"It's a very powerful tool. It has a lot of flexibility for how you can define jobs and build them. There are different ways in which you can construct jobs depending on your specific needs and requirements."
"It saves us a lot of time and money by doing jobs automatically."
"It has advanced features like dashboards where users can see all statistics."
"Error handling and the recovery feature ensure that my job processes are not stopped if any error occurs."
"There are various ways in which you can construct jobs depending on your business needs and requirements."
"Except for the GUI, everything looks good."
"The interface is not that user-friendly and is a little tough to navigate."
"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."
"The user interface can be improved so that it is more appealing and accessible to new users."
"They should offer pricing that is more affordable."
"A nice thing to have would be the ability to comfortably pass variables from one job to another. That was one of the things that I found difficult."
"Some of the advanced features in the user interface are a bit confusing even after referring to the documents."
"It could be easier to provide dashboards on how many jobs are running at the same time; more monitoring."
"Currently, our developers aren't able to access their own objects in the user acceptance testing server and production system server as they are assigned the developer access role, which is kind of a solid role, and no changes or additions can be made to it."
"The only issue at first was that we had to manually delete or raise the event in order to run some of the events and wait for jobs, even if the file was kept at the correct AL11 position."
"Redwood RunMyJobs should add more good features."
"They should be made more cost-effective in comparison to similar software services."
"We'd like to see an integration with ServiceNow to raise the tickets/incidents in ServiceNow."
"It lacks some of the common reporting features. I'm a bit surprised that there aren't some standard reports to be able to extract any data on usage. They've described to us that customers have different reporting needs, so they let them develop those, but reporting is a common need. It would be helpful to have it as part of the solution."
"Adding machine learning and AI capabilities would enable Redwood to automate more complex business processes and tasks."
"Enhancing the user interface would make it more appealing and accessible to a wide range of users."
ActiveBatch by Redwood is ranked 4th in Workload Automation with 35 reviews while Redwood RunMyJobs is ranked 3rd in Workload Automation with 30 reviews. ActiveBatch by Redwood is rated 9.2, while Redwood RunMyJobs 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 Redwood RunMyJobs writes "Simple to use, increases CPU speed, and reduces the cost of machine time". ActiveBatch by Redwood is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Tidal by Redwood, IBM Workload Automation and VisualCron, whereas Redwood RunMyJobs is most compared with Control-M, Stonebranch, Tidal by Redwood, AutoSys Workload Automation and Automic Workload Automation. See our ActiveBatch by Redwood vs. Redwood RunMyJobs report.
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