ActiveBatch by Redwood Reviews

ActiveBatch helps in scheduling the job processes in a great manner and also helps in executing various tasks. The tasks can be related to data processing, file transfers, or system management. 

It arranges all the complex tasks in the correct order and looks after the dependencies of tasks on one another. This is very useful for businesses involving many or multiple systems. 

The tool facilitates integration between various other databases, systems, or applications. Integrated systems work together very smoothly. ActiveBatch provides a real-time analysis and monitoring feature that ensures that users are informed of any issues in the automated execution process.

ActiveBatch Workload Automation is truly a powerful tool when it comes to automation. The way we manage work has completely changed after using this tool. 

Execution of workflows has become smooth and simple. The overall result after using ActiveBatch at our organization is fabulous. The business processes have improved more than ever before. 

The user interface is really incredible. It is easy to use even with limited technical expertise. This tool allows us to create any type of complex workflow with ease. 

Built-in job steps and integrations are some of the best features of ActiveBatch. This single feature has saved a lot of time for me. Real-time monitoring ensures that the user is aware of the status of the workflows. 

ActiveBatch has strong security and access control options. We can easily define who can access and modify the automation processes. 

It ensures that data is safe from intruders. It makes sure that there is no data leakage during the automation process. The tool has an exceptional documentation and support team. 

The customer team is always responsive and they are available to resolve any type of issues faced by the users. The documentation is very well-organized and it helps the users to find answers to any of their questions without taking any other help. 

This powerful tool has saved us a lot of time and resources. This is a feature-rich solution that delivers outstanding results.

Providing some detailed training materials could be very helpful for new users who have very limited technical information about the tool. 

Enhancing the features of cybersecurity could be of great use. Scalability and adapting to the changing demands can be improved. The user interface can be enhanced so that it can be accessible to beginners. Providing customizable dashboards and tools can be helpful. 

Integration with other platforms can be improved. Allowing users to create their own custom job steps can be of great use.

I have been using this automation tool for the past nine months.

The scalability it provides is fabulous and reliable.

I switched to this automation tool due to the fact that ActiveBatch had all the features I was looking for. The automation process was smooth and error-free with ActiveBatch. This saved a lot of time and resources and has improved the overall performance.

The task scheduling was manual earlier, and it was a very difficult and time-consuming task to schedule jobs. Even after this process, it was difficult to find out what was wrong if the job/task has been failed. With the help of ActiveBatch Workload Automation, the entire workflow automation has been automated, and we can schedule our entire process from a single point of contact with features like real-time monitoring. We're streamlining IT operations, getting centralized security, and having quick and reliable integration features that are game changers in the industry.

Active Batch has helped us in a lot of ways. For example, earlier, the process was very time-consuming, and we needed to always have some resources to monitor everything. We needed a resource to schedule, and the entire workflow was not easy. With ActiveBatch, we schedule the tasks automatically and monitor them efficiently to track the tasks in real-time. Mainly, we have streamlined our entire IT operations. Now, we don't always need a resource to schedule or manage things. It does its tasks on its own, and even we can track and audit them efficiently and effectively.

There are many features I found very useful. It was the automatic scheduling of jobs and monitoring in real-time that were very useful. It has streamlined the entire IT operations. A lot of organizations are getting help from this. For developers, it is easy to orchestrate the workflows and the integration has been very easy. We can easily integrate ActiveBatch workload with any tool without any headache. We can optimize existing scripts also. Auditing is made simpler for administrators now.

Whenever there is an overload, we are seeing crashes happening. It is something that has to be taken care of. 

Triggers play a predominant role in doing an automated task after an event. It was eventually used to erase the boilerplate code, however, unfortunately, the triggers are not very reliable in ActiveBatch. It is not performing what it had to do at certain times. 

The application is a bit complicated and it is not very user-friendly for beginners. That might be a disadvantage until they get familiar with it.

I've used the solution for six to 12 months.

We did not previously use a different solution. 

ActiveBatch is the best in terms of reliability and helps with cost-cutting. The licensing was a complete green flag for the product from my side.

We did not evaluate other options.

We used this solution for automating our batch processing which includes data load, refreshing data marts and refreshing the Power BI reports. We were using it for end-to-end automation, primarily for data delivery to reporting. We used every end-to-end process. The company is a customer of ActiveBatch. 

The solution is easy to configure and it's simple to develop new features, batch processing, or set up new process automation. It's also user-friendly for the operations team. I had experience on both sides working initially in operations, supporting the batch processing, and later on in development. Configuration is straightforward and it's easy to integrate with any system. All systems can be connected under one product rather than having to buy different tools to automate batch processing. The PowerShell feature or automatically using VBScript and the like offers good value. 

We haven't explored the cloud aspect of the solution because it's very costly. I think it should be provided as a free feature, which would be wonderful for organizations unable to take on the added expense of moving to the cloud. 

I used this solution for eight years up until a month ago when I moved to a different company. 

Yes, it is a stable solution but there are ongoing legacy issues that have carried through over the last few versions and which haven't yet been resolved. If there is too much batch processing happening some processes don't run properly. It doesn't happen all the time and we're able to manage it. 

The solution is scalable. We had around 50 people in the company using ActiveBatch as a tool. It was embedded more into the business side so it was used by the finance department, and the risk department, and it was used in customer marketing.

Customer support was helpful in providing the workarounds. Their knowledge base is very clear and they were very helpful for us in terms of creating more options. They provided a lot of the APIs and we were able to do our own DIY kinds of things. We created our own solutions using ActiveBatch and did our own monitoring so we could get enriched reporting. They were very helpful and provided us with good information.  

The product can be installed on any machine and it's very straightforward. If you know what you're doing it doesn't take long at all. Our implementation was all carried out in-house.

I'm unaware of the licensing costs but I know there is an additional fee for connecting to an SAP environment. 

This is a very good tool and I'm really missing it in my new company because I don't have a robust enterprise-wide scheduling tool and a really good tool for automating end-to-end.

I rate this solution eight out of 10.