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.
"Easy to configure and simple to develop new features."
"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."
"We are able to integrate it into multiple third-party tools like email, backup, tracking systems, SharePoint, Slack alerts, etc."
"The nice thing about ActiveBatch is once we have created a specific job that can be easily be replicated to another job, then minimal changes will have to be made. This makes things nice. Reduction of coding is substantial in a lot of cases. The replication of one job to another is just doing a few minor tweaks and rolling it into production. This decreases our development costs substantially."
"One of the valuable features is the ability to trigger workflows, one after another, based on success, without having to worry about overlapping workflows. The ability to integrate our BI, analytics, and our data quality jobs is also valuable"
"It is very useful in sending confidential files through FPP servers."
"Approximately ~20 hours of manual effort have been reduced to ~5 hours with the help of ActiveBatch."
"By implementing a sophisticated scheduling mechanism, the system allows for the precise triggering of jobs at user-selected frequencies, enabling a seamless and automated execution of tasks according to specified time intervals."
"We can create and test micro-workflows to find defects sooner."
"Installing and configuring Redwood agents are easy, and scheduling jobs on Redwood helps in triggering the batches as per business requirements."
"Multi-platform scheduling makes it easier this way rather than accessing one platform at a time."
"Redwood is of value to our organization due to of its ease of use and the ability to automate and orchestrate any platform that we utilize today."
"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 can centralize and support on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments seamlessly."
"It has advanced features like dashboards where users can see all statistics."
"REL expressions are quite helpful for setting up the preconditions."
"Providing some detailed training materials could be very helpful for new users who have very limited technical information about the tool."
"Some of the advanced features in the user interface are a bit confusing even after referring to the documents."
"Setting up the software was hard."
"Between version 10 and version 12 there was a change. In version 10, they had each object in its own folder. But on the back end, they saw it at the root level. So when we moved over to version 12, everything was in the same area mixed together. It was incredibly difficult and we actually had to create our own folders and move those objects—like schedules, jobs, user accounts—and manually put those into folders, whereas the previous version already had it."
"ActiveBatch UI could use a little more help, and video tutorials would be greatly appreciated for user guides."
"They have some crucial design flaws within the console that still need to be worked out because it is not working exactly how we hoped to see it, e.g., just some minor things where when you hit the save button, then all of a sudden all your job's library items collapse. Then, in order to continue on with your testing, you have to open those back up. I have taken that to them, and they are like, "Yep. We know about it. We know we have some enhancements that need to be taken care of. We have more developers now." They are working towards taking the minor things that annoy us, resolving them, and getting them fixed."
"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."
"We have faced a couple of issues where we were supposed to log a defect with ActiveBatch. That said, the Active batch Vendor Support is very responsive and reliable."
"The solution should have more focus on security standards."
"I have not noted any downsides."
"There is a lack of resources and product documentation which, if included, would help to gain more knowledge about the application."
"The reports are downloaded in .CAR file format, which makes it difficult to convert to an Excel file."
"The price wise, it is not affordable. When we compare with other industry leading softwares and even the same scale, there are certain softwares that can compete with Redwood, but Redwood is very highly paced.So it is more SAP friendly, I would say, at this point. Since it was owned by SAP for very long time, they have made it SAP friendly. But if you look at the tool as a enterprise tool. Like, in general, it is not really that great as a tool. So you can you have better options when you couple it with SAP. But if you would like to control your enterprise level applications, anything after that, like, Azure AWS and things like that Oracle."
"They should be made more cost-effective in comparison to similar software services."
"The addition of machine learning capabilities could help Redwood Workload Automation Software better predict job and workflow performance, detect anomalies, and optimize operations based on historical data."
"We need the automatic creation of incidents for failed jobs."
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 JSCAPE by Redwood, whereas Redwood RunMyJobs is most compared with Control-M, Stonebranch, Tidal by Redwood, AutoSys Workload Automation and Automic Automation Intelligence. See our ActiveBatch by Redwood vs. Redwood RunMyJobs report.
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