ActiveBatch Reviews & Product Details

What I love most about the ActiveBatch Workload Automation is the simplicity of this tool despite the amount of complexity it is managing. Simple to use feature help in its quick adoption and its process workflows are in a good state because of its straight forward integration with other tools. In the department, the adoption rate is high as it speeds up the processes and omits errors. Although the abundance in choices is good news, the significance of the customization feature which makes automation fit in our personalized needs is instrumental. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Even tho ActiveBatch Workload Automation has many great features, it may still require for their customer service to be a little more responsive. Delays in solving technical problems taken aback our work procedure sometimes. Besides that, the quite complex UI might be another obstacle for some individual users who have to put in additional time to get acquainted with the tool and training for its usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

User friendly and easy to manage automation tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing specific, it's a powerful tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Active Batch is easy to pick up quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Change Management is a bit clunky. you can't search for the path you are trying to get to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am using ActiveBatch Workload Automation for a while now, and it definitely made the process of task management and execution easier for me as a mobile application development engineer. The availability of templated jobs has brought me remarkably time-saving, especially with the approach of variable replacement that fits perfectly with dynamic data handling in app creation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nevertheless, script management on Active Batch is somehow complicated, especially with regard to handling power shell scripts as well as planning automation for the larger and more complex systems. At times the interface is a bit heavy what means that it can slow down my workflow when I have to perform tasks fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ActiveBatch workload automation can integrate with a wide variety of platform and programming/scripting languages. Their customer support is flexible and fast. We run over 12,000 jobs daily with a rate of failure of less than 0.1 %, which we have never accomplished before with other scheduling products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some documentation are outdated, mainly their documentation about the COM API object. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is an open source platform for reviewing software options and we have access to all client feedback in order to plan ahead of time.It greatly assists me in my daily duties such as workload automation. It has a user friendly  UI thus any non IT person can quickly get their hands on this software. It is compatible with various organizations and Active Batch may simply interact with other apps making it easy to access and automate all tasks across multiple platforms. The customer service team is fantastic allowing us to fix our issues in a timely manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To make it more user friendly more extensive documentation and improvements to the UI are required.In comparison to other software the reporting capabilities are a little limited, which should be expanded with the help of IT specialists. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is easy to use, UI is good and have extensive options to automate and schedule the jobs and batches as per need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some features are not working in V12 update like list view in the batch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Activebatch Workload Automation is an outstanding tool with a great features, It has exceeded the productivity and efficiency of our organization. It has a user-friendly Interface and setting up this tool is so gentle. Scheduling the batch jobs and managings the tasks are efforless by using ActiveBatch. It has simplified the complex workflows and decreased the Manual involvement, this also helped to get the accuracy in outcomes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Oncall assistance and support needs to be Improved, Training videos and product documents are lacking to understand more about the software. Cost for the licence upgrade is higher compared to other automation tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have implemented ActiveBacth Workload automation to perform Automated Endpoint security scans on our severs and networks components to have a complete picture of the environment and the endpoints are secured or need and upgrade to reduce the surface area for attach by threat actors. It is a faster, more efficent and also reduces the error scope for not scanning the endpoints correctly and reporting it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The integration with our security monitoring tool was little hassel as it had little hiccups while integrating leading to confusions and frequent calls with customer support. They can probably make the integration simpler and also prvide detailed documentation to perform the integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Majorly i faced issues while creating and scheduling file transfer jobs in UC4 tool(which was asking for different host name, scripts , paths etc) . but where as when i started using activebatch things went smotther with managed file transfer, which moved files on time and more complex files were also transferred with ease. Also activebatch has advanced event trigger feature which allows to create or send small or huge files to any SFTP server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Annual recurring license for activebatch is quite high. apart from that it provides best service with easy to migrate jobs from any automation scheduler. Need to extract jobs from scheduler database and convert them into XML format and upload into activebatch. it gives best solution for any complex structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.