We performed a comparison between Automic Workload Automation and Fortra's Automate 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."The most valuable features are the predefined templates for application-specific jobs and the access for different users."
"The ability the system has to dynamically create groups, schedules, and workflows is crucial to us. In a fast-paced, agile environment, our teams are very lean. Monitoring and maintaining of all the approximately 2,000,000 executions of Automic jobs are managed by only three employees. The system has been designed to be as dynamic and versatile as the business processes and teams that own them."
"The night processing helps to have data just-in-time for the morning."
"We can take something from crontab, something that's very nitty-gritty and low-level, and be able to put it into a nice interface, and be able to track it at every junction along the way, add alerting, interdependencies."
"Automic is 99 percent stable. We've never had a problem with stability."
"Being able to script, create something I want the software to do for a specific job. This allows me to do that. Very powerful."
"It has its own object-oriented scripting language and you can reload your object in many different places."
"It is flexible. We can do additional scripting in Automic script, in combination with JSL language."
"The most valuable feature is the drag-and-drop interface, which is very Windows-like."
"The ability to connect to websites and pull data is the solution's most valuable feature."
"I like the interface; it makes managing automation easy. We can set different schedules and templates for each task."
"A great feature that you seldom see in these kind of systems is the ability to use a database as trigger to launch a task. This is something I asked for a few years ago and that was added."
"The interface is simple, user-friendly, and very intuitive."
"The pricing is excellent. I would give them perfect marks in that regard."
"The solution is continuously adding more integrations to help with workflows and bot and task creation."
"It gives us a central place to schedule tasks and run them distributed."
"The tool lacks interoperability features."
"I hope in the next release that they will solve all the bugs which they have found in development."
"I should be able to grant a user access to execute a job without having to directly list every include, prompt set, output scan, script, login, etc. An inherited read for execution purposes would accomplish the same results without making the admin list every single object every time, as well as deny the user the ability to edit."
"The stability is not as good as it was in former years. Stability has gone down from version to version."
"I would also like to see a little bit more connectivity, more, "Play nice with other toys." For instance, we have IServ as our primary tool for our service request tickets. In order for it to play nice with Automic, we had to actually create a file and put it somewhere, where Automic can see it. I would like to see more connectivity with other tools, or more compatibility with other tools."
"We would like to have some features with the AWI with the founding technique, which cannot currently be delivered."
"In terms of what can be improved, we are in Israel, so we work in Hebrew. Now they are starting to move it also from English to Hebrew and to support the language, but for us it has been very difficult because the Hebrew looks like gibberish. So there are language issues."
"I would like to see more types of Calendars in the next release of this solution."
"The OCR for Hebrew text needs to be improved."
"Some companies have asked for voice integration. This is likely part of the roadmap."
"Fortra's Automate is not as reliable as I would like it to be."
"There is room for improvement regarding cloud functionality; there are a few missing features, and the logging could be better, especially air logging. We can go into logging events and create our own task, but it would be nice if this were more detailed."
"The documentation is not that great."
"The solution has a very weak knowledge base."
"The documentation for errors needs improvement as many of the error messages we receive are very vague."
"Error messages should be better. For error status, there should be better documentation because a lot of times, error messages that you get are quite vague. For example, you get a message saying that the workflow has run into an unknown status, which is vague. It just tells you that it failed, but you don't know how or why it failed. It makes debugging difficult."
Automic Workload Automation is ranked 7th in Workload Automation with 85 reviews while Fortra's Automate is ranked 5th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 21 reviews. Automic Workload Automation is rated 8.2, while Fortra's Automate is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Automic Workload Automation writes "A tool requiring an easy setup phase that provides its users with flexibility and flow chart visibility ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortra's Automate writes "Can automate several processes with only one bot and is easy to implement, administer, and use". Automic Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Dollar Universe Workload Automation and AppWorx Workload Automation, whereas Fortra's Automate is most compared with Microsoft Power Automate, UiPath, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, MOVEit and Automation Anywhere (AA).
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