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VisualCron pros and cons

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Pros & Cons summary

VisualCron reduces manual steps and operational costs, improving efficiency within organizations. It allows business departments to perform tasks independently, reducing IT bottlenecks. VisualCron enables automation without coding, making it accessible to non-programmers. It integrates with various databases and systems, supports scheduling interactive jobs with dependencies, and enhances task management. However, error handling, mail trigger conditions, audit logs, SQLCE use, and the command console could be improved.

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PROS

Reduces manual tasks and facilitates automation, thus lessening the load on IT departments and empowering other business departments to perform tasks independently.
VisualCron's cloning capability significantly shortens time to implement processes, while its flexibility allows for handling complex workflows.
Requires no coding skills for operation, effectively making automation accessible to non-programmer users.
Direct integration capabilities with databases, user accounts, and credentials allow for seamless connectivity and operations across various platforms, including cloud environments.
Significantly cuts operational costs, with reported reductions up to 40%.

CONS

Error timeout and info could be better, especially with web request calls timing out without useful error responses.
Conditions in the mail trigger can only be used as "AND", not as "OR", requiring multiple jobs for the same task.
Audit log expansion is needed to show who changed job variables initialized per job run.
Performance degradation occurs when scaling up, as VisualCron takes too much memory or CPU power, necessitating increased hardware resources.
Command console is difficult to understand and needs improvement.
 

VisualCron Pros review quotes

YM
Jun 22, 2022
We don't have to do any coding. We just plug and play and it works.
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reviewer1982277 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 6, 2022
What I like about VisualCron is that like its name, it's a very visual tool. In my previous company, there were a lot of scripts for all kinds of services, and through VisualCron, you get to group all flows and get a nice visual overview. VisualCron also has an alerting feature, so you receive alerts from it. VisualCron makes everything clearer and easier to maintain. Every other solution that I was looking for almost always needed a programmer, but with VisualCron, you can do what you need to do without programming skills, so this is another valuable feature of the tool.
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SS
Oct 24, 2022
What I found most beneficial from VisualCron is that you can directly connect it with different databases, user accounts, and credentials. You can run queries from one machine to another using the credentials, unlike PowerShell, that's run by the machine itself. With VisualCron, you can directly ask other machines and run requests through user credentials. Suppose you have an AWS or Azure environment. In that case, you can maintain the connection between on-premises and cloud-based machines, which is the type of setup in the organization I'm working for. You can directly call some of the services via VisualCron on your local on-premises machine, and I found that an excellent feature of the tool.
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reviewer1365099 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 4, 2020
The ability to clone jobs to shorten the time it takes to implement a process has been invaluable, but its flexibility also gives us the ability to create a job that can handle a multifaceted process with a complex workflow.
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reviewer1360629 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 28, 2020
've only had a few cases where I've had to request support in the past 12 years of use, but the support response time and resolution were was extremely quick.
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reviewer1349754 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 13, 2020
It has improved our organization with more automation within the business departments and less administration and development in the IT department. Usually, as the IT department, we are the bottleneck for many requirements within the business. With this tool, the business departments are able to perform many task themselves.
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reviewer1356075 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 23, 2020
VisualCron is a very powerful program to automate different steps in your business processes. We use it to automate replacing files and inform departments about the replacement.
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Sourav-Dutta - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 26, 2023
I love VisualCron because we previously spent a lot of time writing Power switches to connect to SQL Server. VisualCron makes it easier to execute services or connect to FileZilla by only adding the credentials to the master credentials stored in the solution.
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Paul_Anderson - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 26, 2023
The most valuable feature of VisualCron is its ability to schedule interactive jobs so that you can have interdependencies within the job and interdependencies of a job on another job, and so on.
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reviewer1346658 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 8, 2020
It helped us reduce manual steps.
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VisualCron Cons review quotes

YM
Jun 22, 2022
The only problem I face when I use the tool is that it doesn't contain much documentation or it doesn't have many video tutorials on its features.
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reviewer1982277 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 6, 2022
An area for improvement in VisualCron is its cluttered interface. It isn't always easy to find all functionalities, so what VisualCron needs is a user interface expert who can improve the interface. There's a learning curve in terms of finding what you need from the interface of VisualCron. The technical support for VisualCron also needs improvement in terms of response time. Currently, there's no live support or hotline you can call to get quick answers, so this is what I'd like to see in the next version of VisualCron. A less cluttered and more streamlined interface, where you don't need to hunt for some of the features, is also what I'd like to see in the next VisualCron update.
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SS
Oct 24, 2022
I want to improve the UI in VisualCron, as it's not as user-friendly, particularly when setting up the task scheduler. If you're familiar with the tool, then no problem, but if not, you'll have a problem typing text because sometimes, the cursor points to other places, so there's an issue with text box alignment in VisualCron. That was painful for me when I was just a VisualCron novice, but when you become used to it, there won't be a problem.
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reviewer1365099 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 4, 2020
VisualCron seems to operate like an efficient machine when it comes to improvements and enhancements and new features. I always appreciate the quick response I get when bringing up an issue or coming up with suggestions. I've mentioned before that it would be great to see a move away from SQLCE and XML configuration files.
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reviewer1360629 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 28, 2020
I would like for VisualCron to expand audit log to show who changed job variables that are initialized per job run.
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reviewer1349754 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 13, 2020
Our suggestion to make it better and more manageable in terms of GDPR: Implement it in a very partnership way.
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reviewer1356075 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 23, 2020
There are some conditions in the mail trigger, but you can only use them as an "AND" condition, not as an "OR" condition. This is an improvement that could be useful. For example, some people put "invoice" in the subject and others put "invoice" in the body. If I want to make a trigger for everybody whose sending invoices, I have to make two jobs for this now.
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Sourav-Dutta - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 26, 2023
VisualCron is software, and you will experience performance degradation when you scale up. VisualCron takes too much memory or CPU power. We have to increase the hardware resources of a specific server or system.
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Paul_Anderson - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 26, 2023
VisualCron's command console is a little bit difficult to understand and needs to improve.
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reviewer1346658 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 8, 2020
The error timeout and info could be better. When making web request calls, it will time out sometimes and we won't get any useful info out of the error response.
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