We performed a comparison between ActiveBatch by Redwood and vCenter Orchestrator 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."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."
"The user interface is really incredible."
"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."
"The software offers real-time monitoring and reporting features that let IT teams keep tabs on the progress of their batch operations and workflows."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is the versatility of the prebuilt jobs."
"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."
"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."
"The REST API adapters and native integrations for integrating and orchestrating the software stack are very flexible."
"If I need to do DR, VMware can enable me to use vMotion, which requires use of vCenter. You cannot do vMotion without vCenter. We do a lot of automation, orchestration, and simplification for that purpose."
"vCenter Orchestrator is easy to use."
"User-friendly and easy to deploy."
"I like the tool's DNS feature."
"The solution was easy to install."
"The most valuable feature is affinity rules."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"We can scale the solution."
"The monitoring dashboard could have been more user-friendly so that in the monitoring dashboard itself we can see the total number of jobs created in the system and how many were currently active/scheduled/chained."
"ActiveBatch is a little complex."
"Except for the GUI, everything looks good."
"Some improvements can be made to the user interface."
"Whenever there is an overload, we are seeing crashes happening."
"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."
"Providing some detailed training materials could be very helpful for new users who have very limited technical information about the tool."
"ActiveBatch UI could use a little more help, and video tutorials would be greatly appreciated for user guides."
"This is an expensive solution."
"I would like to see a greater ability to do mobile administration."
"We would like more flexibility in sizing data storage and virtual machines, as the current options aren't very adaptable."
"The product’s cost needs improvement."
"I would like to see, from within the Web Console, being able to define the project and custom templates per user; almost like how CloudSpec has approached the solution."
"Using this solution requires a lot of experience."
"It is practically difficult at this stage to really comment on the improvisations of V central. But more tech events and PoC cases would help the EA to design better solutions and utilization."
"The solution needs to integrate with Cloud facilities like AWS and Azure."
ActiveBatch by Redwood is ranked 6th in Process Automation with 35 reviews while vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 44 reviews. ActiveBatch by Redwood is rated 9.2, while vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of ActiveBatch by Redwood writes "Flexible, easy to use, and offers good automation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCenter Orchestrator writes "Enables us to do administration on a centralized layer when using multiple VMware ESX servers". ActiveBatch by Redwood is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Tidal by Redwood, VisualCron and IBM Workload Automation, whereas vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Cisco UCS Director and ServiceNow Orchestration. See our ActiveBatch by Redwood vs. vCenter Orchestrator report.
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