Reseñas y detalles del producto de ActiveBatch Workload Automation

AB has a ton of features and functionality. I've been using it for about 2 years and anytime I wonder whether AB is capable of doing something, it often turns out that it is. We use it to automate SSIS jobs, upload files to SFTP servers, run powershell scripts, manage encryption and compression, and automating archival procedures to make sure that we don't fill up shared drives. Overall, I think it's a great tool. You can read about my opinion on the drawbacks in the next question, but in general, if you have a ton of jobs to manage or automate, it's a tool that I would recommend. Reseña recopilada por y alojada en G2.com.

The UI is a bit quirky and takes some getting used to. Some basic features can be a bit buggy and while support is often helpful, some workarounds don't make a lot of logical sense. The UI makes it easy to set up completion triggers and constraints for your jobs and job plans, but getting an overall picture without having to drill into the properties of all of your plans and jobs can paint an incomplete picture (I think this is due to bugs in the View -> Map feature). Cost has come into question lately in my org, but I don't personally think this is overpriced to the point of excluding it from the conversation. Reseña recopilada por y alojada en G2.com.

Software multiplataforma y agnóstico al lenguaje que nos permite automatizar trabajos y flujos de trabajo con registros de auditoría y monitoreo. Dado que es agnóstico al lenguaje, podemos aprovechar trabajos escritos en una variedad de lenguajes, desde python y bash hasta java y ruby. Además, podemos ejecutar cosas como playbooks de ansible y capturar todo el output en una ubicación centralizada.

Con ActiveBatch, hemos podido desplegar rápidamente nuevos sistemas en la nube de AWS, configurar despliegues automatizados y agilizar nuestras actividades administrativas diarias. También hemos podido ahorrar dinero en la nube al centralizar trabajos programados de sistemas dispares en el entorno de ActiveBatch.

Al desplegar agentes de ejecución dentro de cada entorno, podemos segregar trabajos, aumentando la seguridad al minimizar o eliminar el tráfico entre entornos.

Cuando hemos tenido problemas que requerían soporte, el personal de soporte ha sido rápido en proporcionar documentación para guiarnos por el camino correcto. Si eso no era suficiente para resolver el problema, han sido bastante útiles al proporcionar soporte remoto a través de teleconferencias de compartir pantalla. Reseña recopilada por y alojada en G2.com.

Windows es necesario para ejecutar el software del programador. Principalmente somos una empresa que utiliza Linux, por lo que tener que ejecutar Windows y MSSQL no es lo ideal, pero fue lo suficientemente fácil de implementar en AWS y configurar para ActiveBatch. Además, tuvimos que encargar otra instancia para ejecutar IIS con el fin de servir la Consola Web de ActiveBatch. La configuración inicial no fue trivial para nosotros, ya que no estamos íntimamente familiarizados con IIS, pero pudimos seguir la documentación y poner las cosas en funcionamiento de manera relativamente rápida. Reseña recopilada por y alojada en G2.com.

Great support and resources around the product. Can most likely find everything on the support portal when help is needed. Reseña recopilada por y alojada en G2.com.

Product is complex, but does the job well with automation once learned. Reseña recopilada por y alojada en G2.com.

ActiveBatch is easy to use, but still has many capabilities. In my role doing development and release management, I use ActiveBatch on a daily basis. I love the Job Steps library for creating jobs that can automate multiple different tasks. The ActiveBatch change management tool makes promoting code easy. Reseña recopilada por y alojada en G2.com.

There is nothing that stands out as a negative. For my purposes, ActiveBatch has all that I need. Reseña recopilada por y alojada en G2.com.

UI is really clear, and some default dashboards are pretty well build Reseña recopilada por y alojada en G2.com.

We need to manually refresh the LOG view in order to get the result, there is not direct steam as baretail would do.

Maybe you should improve the queuing system of your jobs.

take this example:

we can avoid having one job running multiple times, but we would like to be able to restart it if there is event trying to start it while it is running.

In order to process the new data.

we found a workaroung with two different plan to queue the events in order to skip all the other events. and keep only two (one running, and another one pending the end of the current one) Reseña recopilada por y alojada en G2.com.

The built-in features make it easy to create automation tasks. I use the Powershell addin a lot as I am able to just copy and paste a script in and it works. Reseña recopilada por y alojada en G2.com.

The queuing feature could use some improvement. Sometimes jobs get hung up and don't always run at the exact times they are configured too and it is difficult to tell when it will actually run when it is in this "hung" or "pending" state. Reseña recopilada por y alojada en G2.com.

We enjoy the automation features that we are allowed to use with daily business functions. Reseña recopilada por y alojada en G2.com.

Our biggest issue we run into is that we have to wait for larger updates or service packs to come out to resolve sometimes critical issues. We would like hotfixes if possible or a way to resolve issues in current environments. Reseña recopilada por y alojada en G2.com.

Fairly easy to use and replicate jobs once you get acquainted. Flexible, with a lot of options to integrate with other systems, platforms, and scripting languages. Jobs can be scheduled, triggered, and more. The management is centralized and installs and upgrades are fairly seamless and harmless. Reseña recopilada por y alojada en G2.com.

Slight learning curve to start, not all options are entirely intuitive. Slightly confusing model with how agents versus workload managers work and such. We have had some jobs that work fine through SQL Server as an example, but fail using AB, without any noticeable reason as to why. Support is generally very helpful and resolves issues, but they were a bit stumped with the SQL Server example above. Training is very expensive, wish they had more available for free, especially when first on-boarding. Reseña recopilada por y alojada en G2.com.

Downloads, uploads, sftp options, transparency Reseña recopilada por y alojada en G2.com.

just wish I had more time to explore other option Reseña recopilada por y alojada en G2.com.

Me gusta el hecho de que puedo dormir más profundamente por la noche sabiendo lo sólida que realmente es Active Batch. ¡Es como el iPhone y la navaja suiza de la automatización! Si es digital, entonces Active Batch puede automatizarlo. Lo hemos estado usando desde 2012 y ha permitido que mi empresa crezca rápidamente y no se preocupe por el aumento de la carga de trabajo. ActiveBatch nunca se ha ralentizado bajo el aumento de actividad. Simplemente maneja todo lo que le lanzamos. Es una de las mejores aplicaciones que usamos y se escala fenomenalmente. Las actualizaciones también son sin preocupaciones. Reseña recopilada por y alojada en G2.com.

Hay una curva de aprendizaje con ActiveBatch que lo hace un poco desafiante al principio, pero una vez que entiendes los fundamentos es como si se encendiera la luz más brillante. Honestamente, no puedo encontrar ningún otro inconveniente. Reseña recopilada por y alojada en G2.com.