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ActiveBatch Workload Automation Overview

What is ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

ActiveBatch is part of Redwood Software offering the easiest to use job scheduler and an extensible, highly reliable workload automation software. Redwood Software, a 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SOAP Leader, delivers automation fabric solutions for mission-critical business processes. ActiveBatch provides a central IT automation hub for assembling and monitoring end-to-end workflows in data warehouses and across the enterprise. ActiveBatch includes hundreds of direct integrations with major IT and business platforms and a Super REST API Adapter so you can connect to any server, any application or any service. Orchestrate your entire tech stack so that business-critical systems such as data warehousing, CRM, ERP, supply chain management, work order management, project management and consulting systems work together seamlessly with minimal human intervention. The job scheduler is the brain of workload automation architecture, allowing you to build and orchestrate cross-functional workflows. It handles load balancing, scheduling, dependency checking, SLA monitoring, reporting and notifications. Eliminate manual workflows with ActiveBatch automated tasks and accelerate development of high-value services that drive your company forward. ActiveBatch includes a low-code drag-and-drop GUI with dozens of DevOps features to easily build end-to-end business processes in half the time without the need for custom scripting. Users can securely access ActiveBatch from any device with flexible interfaces such as a self-service portal for business and help desk users. ActiveBatch’s proactive support model includes 24/7 global support and predictive diagnostics using AI to keep your environment optimized for reliability and productivity. Disclaimer: GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. MAGIC QUADRANT is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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ActiveBatch Workload Automation offers a powerful automation engine, rich library of integrations, and intuitive workflow designer for improved performance and end-to-end visibility of processes.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

• Extensive library of pre-built connectors, job steps and variables
• Low code Super REST API adapter to get infinite extensibility to third-party services
• Intuitive, no-code/low-code drag-and-drop GUI
• Self Service Portal to empower your business users to run and monitor their own workflows, without the need for IT support
• Health Service that display recommendations for optimization through the Action Center
• World-class 24x7 support, highly-experienced professional services, and on-demand training through Redwood University


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Redwood Software is the leader in full stack automation for mission-critical business processes. With the first SaaS-based composable automation platform specifically built for ERP, we believe in the transformative power of automation. Our...


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Senthil T.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"ActiveBatch User Review"
Learning and creating Job triggers , even based trigger jobs or scheduled.
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David M.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"I have been using ActiveBatch for more than 10 years, starting with version 7"
Tree structure for objects is much more efficient for data separation between Prod and Non-Prod and between clients, projects or groups. Having re...
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Chris B.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
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"Great tool for automation!"
Active batch is a great tool that we use for automation at our company. It is easy to use, reliable and support is helpful.
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ActiveBatch Workload Automation Demo - Managed File Transfer -Download Files and Send Results
ActiveBatch Job that downloads files from an FTP Server and sends a report of the succeeded and failed files to the server owner.
ActiveBatch Workload Automation Demo - Map View Workflow
Map View is a dynamic, real-time graphical display of all workflows and their dependencies within ActiveBatch environments.
ActiveBatch Workload Automation Demo - Views Pane
The Views Pane provides quick access to various graphical and informational views available to users of the ActiveBatch Console application.
ActiveBatch Workload Automation Demo - Machine Load View
The ActiveBatch Machine Load View allows users to graphically monitor the performance of their Execution Agent machines.
ActiveBatch Workload Automation Demo - Daily Activity View
The Daily Activity View provides a dynamic, real-time status of ActiveBatch Job and Plan Instances.
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Pooja P.
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Software Development Specialist
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

Active batch is convenient to control & supervise multi-platform integrations/technologies

easy to operate & understand

Has good scheduling performance & potential

Configures multiple tasks into one complete end-to-end process

has a good workflow management ability

It is low code automation & reduces the need for scripting

Helps to work seamlessly with minimal human intervention

Has good Operational & administrational capabilities such as monitoring, alerting, reporting, security & governance respectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

exporting documents

could be more cost-effective with respect o Licensing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ActiveBatch Workload Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?

The alert feature reduces the need for continuous monitoring

Reduces the need for manual intervention Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

Active Batch was suggested for our project since it included managing 1400+ servers across many time zones, regions, and customers.

Workflow automation: The drag-and-drop workflow was straightforward for any team member to use to produce the ideal workflow. The tool's drag-and-drop option worked wonderfully in designing, testing, and deploying complicated workflows while saving time and effort.

Monitoring and alerts: As the engineers had limited resources, it was challenging to allocate the work, but after the active batch rollout was deployed, each shift's productivity grew consistently. Monitoring and alarms were on the money as they missed out on SLA breaches throughout all the shifts.

Flexible scheduling allowed us to communicate easily with customers, vendors, and consumers in their respective time zones.

Working with a large team and a diverse user base was challenging before the active batch was implemented. Still, once that was done, it became simple to manage the amount of access with each individual and batch-wise access provisioning cut down on time consumption. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

A bit Lag and bug fix would work wonders for the automation tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ActiveBatch Workload Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cross-platform integration was useful to track and perform the work parallelly without any delay, as many tasks were interlinked, shifting between were cake walk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prapulla K.
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What do you like best about ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

1. We can connect it to any server/application.

2. Ease to use.

3.Easy to monitor and schedule the jobs.

4. Alerting mechanism Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

There's nothing I dislike about this product, but some feature could be improved such as default reports, automatic creation of incidents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ActiveBatch Workload Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used to do manual monitoring of the jobs and there were chances that we may miss few critical jobs but after using Active batch it reduced the manual work, whenever any job fails we get immediate email alert, also it's easy to schedule and monitor the jobs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

ActiveBatch can connect to any server, any application, any service .. giving you the flexibility to choose any other softeware along with this.

Also liked the ability of this tool to centralize the automation and job scheduling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

Though user manuals are available, they can give detailed documentation in order to get the exact idea for non technical folks and to make it easier for them to understand quickly and to handle without any issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ActiveBatch Workload Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?

There were lot many jobs we had to schedule. Many ETL processes to handle which were running on different different servers . Using this software made the scheduling very easy and also the dependency we could define regardless the servers the jobs were running on!

Reduced manual efforts of monitoring as the alert system of this tool is exactly how it should be. We could set up the alert system without any complecations which informs our support team about the performance of the system, the step where the job failed .. making it easier to concentrate on other tasks on their bucket which needs their attention. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

Reuse of same job template.

Multiple users can log in and work on the same object to resolve the issue and for faster performance.

less code/ no code, it is completely automated.

It has more than 150+ drag-and-drop tools which eliminates the use of script and coding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

Nothing much negative on Activebatch end. Because it has all the necessary integrations like active backups, messaging queues, flow control, user-customized reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ActiveBatch Workload Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?

Best part of Activebatch automation is the monitoring and alerting mechanism, which proactively monitors for failed processes and sends alerts to dedicated functional team, and they acknowledge it. This customized alerting system reduces the risk of breaching SLAs, which is an important part of business. Unlike in Redwood automation, this Ativebatch sends alerts to different systems like normal text sms , skype etc so even in off business hours; everybody is kept notified. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

Increased productivity as coding is done faster using the ready objects which gives more time to work on project functionality.

Managing jobs is made easy as job handling is automated which makes workload equally distributed increasing efficiency. Allows multiple scripting languages which makes room for diversified expertise to work on the tool. Integration is made easy as it works on multiple tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

ActiveBatch user interface is a bit complicated for anyone trying to use it for the first time. Would be better if there is any guide or reference for any new function or features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ActiveBatch Workload Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?

Previous job scheduling tools used in our project involved manual job triggers but with Activebatch Workflow the automation is made the job handling much easier than ever before as it automates the entire job workflow and also expands the feature of triggering events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sam S.
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What do you like best about ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

Our organization has used Activebatch for several years now for workload automation and I can say it is the best orchestration tool I have ever used. Once you understand some of the quirks and nuances, it is an excellent tool. What I enjoy most is it is a modular tool that supports many programming languages and cloud platforms. Having ActiveBatch has allowed us to create automation that would have otherwise been more cumbersome with another tool. Also, I love that you can easily create API endpoints to call your workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

I think the permissions model for Activebatch could be improved. Maybe because I am not the admin of the server, but I have found the permissions model to be cumbersome. But that should not be a dealbreaker as it is a great tool! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ActiveBatch Workload Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?

- We use it for refreshing lower environments with SnapCenter and VMWare

- Running restore scripts in our lower environments

- Querying data from multiple database engines

- Sending data to AWS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

It wasn't easy to Schedule the jobs Earlier as we required a resource to run and monitor them. With ActiveBatch, We can schedule our Job at a particular time, and also it gives us alerts and we can also monitor them. The cause Failure can also be easily identified and entire workflow is mad simpler. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

When we are working with triggers it is not working as expected the main use of triggers is to eliminate boiler plate code and it is not functioning properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ActiveBatch Workload Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were having trouble with transfers with ActiveBatch Parallel Transfer Capabilities we were able to transfer files of high volumes without investing much time along with that built in checks providing authentication with automatic restarts has helping alot in our projects. Anyhow, ActiveBatch has Streamlined entire workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

As an enterprise-wide tool, ActiveBatch (AB) is difficult to beat. It allows for coordinated automations across multiple systems that are easy to configure, monitor, and follow. It provides many built-in functions and allows for both internal and external scripts (eg. VBS, PS1, BAT, CMD, etc.). Vendor support is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

SFTP is a tough area. AB doesn't play well with AWS hosted FTP sites. Some of the extensions (API) are not fully implemented, they have the basic features, but some bells and whistles might be missing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ActiveBatch Workload Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?

AB is providing a cohesive interface across multiple operating systems and application systems for automation needs. It supports very complex scheduling and alerting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

ActiveBatch Workload Automation is a stable platform it provides an intuitive user interface ActiveBatch will help quickly build and monitor processes that orchestrate data center workflows, IT operations and infrastructure tasks, Business applications, and batch jobs. It supports remotely all the environments like Windows, Unix, Linux and cloud environments etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

ActiveBatch Workload Automation is a bit complex for beginners other than this; I have nothing much. I love ActiveBatch Workload Automation. It allows businesses to automate and manage processes across many systems and applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ActiveBatch Workload Automation solving and how is that benefiting you?

Active Batch Workload Automation enables us to manage data across multi-cloud and hybrid environments; we integrate and automate workloads across multiple platforms from a single point of control, increasing productivity. It makes our job easy and quick. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.