# BatchMan Reviews **Vendor:** HONICO by Stonebranch **Category:** [Workload Automation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/workload-automation) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 21 ## About BatchMan BatchMan from HONICO by Stonebranch is a comprehensive job scheduling and process automation tool designed to enhance the efficiency of IT operations. It is tailored for SAP environments but can also integrate with other systems. Here are some key features and benefits of BatchMan: Key Features: Automated Job Scheduling: Schedule and manage background jobs and processes within SAP and other connected systems. Support for complex job chains and dependencies. Real-Time Monitoring: Provides real-time monitoring and control of scheduled jobs. Alerts and notifications for job status changes or failures. Centralized Management: Centralized interface for managing all job schedules across various systems. Simplified administration and reduced manual intervention. Integration with SAP: Seamless integration with SAP NetWeaver, SAP HANA, and other SAP components. Ability to manage SAP background jobs and integrate with SAP Solution Manager. Scalability: Scalable solution to handle large volumes of jobs and processes. Suitable for both small and large enterprises. Reporting and Analytics: Comprehensive reporting tools to analyze job performance and system utilization. Historical data analysis for trend identification and optimization. Security and Compliance: Adherence to security standards and compliance requirements. User and role-based access controls to ensure secure operations. Benefits: Increased Efficiency: Automates repetitive tasks, freeing up IT resources for more strategic activities. Improved Reliability: Ensures jobs are executed accurately and on time, reducing the risk of errors. Enhanced Visibility: Real-time monitoring and detailed reporting provide greater insight into job performance. Cost Savings: Reduces the need for manual job scheduling and monitoring, leading to cost savings in IT operations. Flexibility: Adaptable to various IT environments and easily integrates with existing systems. BatchMan is widely used in industries where reliable and efficient job scheduling is critical, such as manufacturing, finance, and retail. It helps organizations streamline their IT operations, improve system performance, and achieve better control over their processes. ## BatchMan Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **responsive and knowledgeable customer support** from BatchMan, enhancing their experience with the software. (1 reviews) - Users find BatchMan to be a **robust and user-friendly** scheduling solution that simplifies SAP job management. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **robust job scheduling** capabilities of BatchMan, making it essential for their SAP processes. (1 reviews) ## BatchMan Reviews ### 1. Efficient, User-friendly and Reliable Job Scheduling for SAP **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mayur S. | Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2024 **What do you like best about BatchMan?** Our organization has been using BatchMan for managing our SAP batch processes. Whenever we've faced challenges or needed assistance, the support team was responsive and highly knowledgeable. Given the scope of our SAP environment, we rely on BatchMan daily for all our job scheduling requirements. Overall, Batchman is a robust and user-friendly scheduling solution for SAP environments. **What do you dislike about BatchMan?** The Batchman management UI can only be accessed from within SAP. There is no independent client. **What problems is BatchMan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Batchman helps us schedule all our batch processes with complex scheduling requirements. ### 2. BatchMan support and easy to use with SAP not much training is needed for Business team **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** rajan c. | WLA Infra Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2024 **What do you like best about BatchMan?** Reporting and details of all the jobs easy to share with all business users. **What do you dislike about BatchMan?** more knowledge article for known issues. **What problems is BatchMan solving and how is that benefiting you?** SAP and BW job scheduling and access to users for self service ### 3. More than 20 years of good experiences **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bernhard G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2024 **What do you like best about BatchMan?** However, the range of functions goes far beyond SAP standards. A projection of all planned/executed jobs can be called up using a graphical display, which also enables direct jumps to control the processes. Various alerting options eliminate the need for permanent monitoring of daily job processing and can limit activities and interventions to exceptional situations, indicated by email notification. **What do you dislike about BatchMan?** I can't say I'm missing any functionality. **What problems is BatchMan solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Scheduling simulation for jobs and job networks - Import/export of job definitions for transfer to other SAP systems - Send print lists via email ### 4. It's good product for Scheduling **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Virendra K. | Workload Automation Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2024 **What do you like best about BatchMan?** Scheduling, SAP job setup, Monitoring , Admin **What do you dislike about BatchMan?** i am not much aware of the this scheduling tool **What problems is BatchMan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scheduling the Batch Jobs ### 5. Good usefull batch management tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike G. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2024 **What do you like best about BatchMan?** The great scheduling options. Building complecate job chains **What do you dislike about BatchMan?** User menu is a little old fashion and sometimes hard to find the rigth options **What problems is BatchMan solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is reducing the number of steps in the currnet jobs and scheduling is made easier and we can make dependicies ### 6. After recently implementing BatchMan I am impressed with its features and functionality **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2022 **What do you like best about BatchMan?** Netweaver Addon, Simple installation, Great Support **What do you dislike about BatchMan?** Scheduling jobs can be a little confusing due to schedule required Standard Order / Warehouse Order would be good if scheduling can be setup all under the master data **What problems is BatchMan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Migrating from an external windows based schedular ### 7. BatchMan - a special experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Outsourcing/Offshoring | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2022 **What do you like best about BatchMan?** The requirement to map the automation of processes in a cost-efficient way. BatchMan offers standardized communication possibilities between the worlds of non-SAP and SAP, as part of SAP. In particular, the potential lies in the Workload Automation. The development team is very committed to the further development of BatchMan. The support is typically German. Fast and competent with trained staff. **What do you dislike about BatchMan?** Rarely, some functions/options change due to a version change of the BatchMan. It remains your task to inform yourself beforehand. **What problems is BatchMan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Processes in the company are mapped in a comprehensible way and processed automatically. Depending on size and scope, BatchMan can be adapted to individual requirements at any time. ### 8. HONICO Batchman review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2023 **What do you like best about BatchMan?** It is accessed from SAP GUI. It has many options for reporting. Generating email alerts are much more easier in batchman. **What do you dislike about BatchMan?** User interface is not so user friendly . **What problems is BatchMan solving and how is that benefiting you?** It can be accessed from SAP Logon pad. Configuring email alerts is more easier in batchman. Reporting options are more. Importing the jobs using the excel is good. ### 9. Best tool for SAP Workload Automation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2021 **What do you like best about BatchMan?** No additional hardware, Inbuilt within SAP. Easy to customize based on the one-to-one requirement as it is ABAP based tool. Better pricing with many features like Batch job management, Workload Management, spool management, FTP data transfer, webservices. Also, support S4 HANA. **What do you dislike about BatchMan?** Best fit for SAP batch management, nothing to comment on dislikes. **Recommendations to others considering BatchMan:** Best SAP and NON-SAP Workload Automation. **What problems is BatchMan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Batch job management. File transfers with FTP\SFTP\SCP. Easy to integrate between silo SAP systems with master\client concept. With Batchman, SLA is always >99% with alerting and integration with ticket management tools like ServiceNow. ### 10. Job handling **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andreas B. | Business Liason Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2022 **What do you like best about BatchMan?** Alert handling / Email notification/leverage the system load via background jobs / Check point with sub.systems **What do you dislike about BatchMan?** Reporting functionality could be enhance / concerning dependencies **What problems is BatchMan solving and how is that benefiting you?** It supports our batch job monitoring and provides us a possibility to determine dependencies within a job net & sub systems ### 11. Simple, user-friendly, and great support for issues. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2022 **What do you like best about BatchMan?** The complexity of batch process handling has been brought to a user-friendly level. The lack of clarity and inflexible handling of SM36 in SAP is thus eliminated. **What do you dislike about BatchMan?** Overall, there is nothing to complain about. Of course, one can always do something better. **What problems is BatchMan solving and how is that benefiting you?** The interconnected batch processes are made transparent in a simple way - both graphically and in tabular form. Monitoring is also simple and clear. Maintenance windows for planning in and out entire systems can be done with a few clicks. Multiple systems can also be viewed in parallel and clearly. ### 12. Best Workload Automation Software developed in SAP ABAP **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aarti P. | Associate Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2021 **What do you like best about BatchMan?** I have been using Honico BatchMan for the last 7.5 years. As this tool developed in SAP, no additional infrastructure is needed to run the tool. It’s a fantastic platform for monitoring and processing a large number of SAP/NON-SAP jobs. The ability to run different kinds of jobs such as SAP R3, Process chains, file transfer interfaces... The platform has the best alerting options in case of Batchplan issues, and its internal programs(/BTCMAN) itself provides a much different scheduling functionality. It makes it easy to define, schedule, manage and monitor Net/jobs, ensuring visibility and reliability and improving SLAs. **What do you dislike about BatchMan?** Not sure if that is possible- But if there would be a web service link/portal functionality which can be open outside SAP, where users can directly monitor their batch jobs. **Recommendations to others considering BatchMan:** I believe it is one of the best schedulers available in SAP. **What problems is BatchMan solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are scheduling critical batches by maintaining batch dependencies with other job/applications. ### 13. work-relieving **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Building Materials | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2022 **What do you like best about BatchMan?** central tool for job control / documentation Simple mapping of complex requirements (calendars, intervals) **What do you dislike about BatchMan?** currently the WDH jobs which will not be around for much longer ;) no search for menu entries available. **What problems is BatchMan solving and how is that benefiting you?** no one can start jobs directly unplanned anymore, unless they are authorized in the BM Job chains across systems accelerate processes ### 14. Batchman is very useful and very easy to understand the background processes. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Furniture | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2022 **What do you like best about BatchMan?** the interface of Batchman is very nice . **What do you dislike about BatchMan?** as of now i dont have anything to dislike **What problems is BatchMan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Batchman solving the problems of background jobs of all SAP and non SAP systems and ensure the business processes are optimized efficiently and securely. ### 15. SAP & NON-SAP Workload Automation with File transfer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2021 **What do you like best about BatchMan?** Inbuilt SAP batch automation. Easy to operate and support with less time to onboard. Master and scheduler job concepts. Stable with good performance. **What do you dislike about BatchMan?** I don't find any dislike with Batchman tool. Nothing found related to not working. all is good. **Recommendations to others considering BatchMan:** Easy to onboard for new resource. Best SAP BATCH Automation. Easy to maintain calendar and scheduling. **What problems is BatchMan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scheduling critical batches and alerting ### 16. Good prduct with extraordinary support **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2022 **What do you like best about BatchMan?** Fast contact good solutions for problems **What do you dislike about BatchMan?** There are no points tohat i can dislike everything is well **What problems is BatchMan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Planning and conrolling Batch in S4/Hana ### 17. Batchman - a fantastic tool for SAP workload automation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2021 **What do you like best about BatchMan?** Completely developed in SAP, no additional infrastructure is needed to run the tool. **What do you dislike about BatchMan?** Run time variant update with dynamic values are still not that good. **What problems is BatchMan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation of business processes(SAP). Pretty robust and stable scheduling tool ### 18. All Batch jobs Runs via Batchman tool in SAP **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2021 **What do you like best about BatchMan?** I like the Batchman application toll following are the points. 1.Once the jobs is scheduled, it will run automatically without any manual action. 2.if the job is aborted then alert sent based on priority set. 3. flexibility to create multiple nets which can be run under various order type. 4. if any plan break in Production system then stop/skip/lock the orders is very good option. 5. it provide the run time histrogram for the jobs/nets for many number of year or for require duriation which help to prepare the maintaince break planning. **What do you dislike about BatchMan?** I don't find any issue with this tool. sometimes i fill tool to complex for the new user/consultant, but as soon as the users is familiar with the tool all is ok.And users/consulatant will realize the benefits of Batchamn. The version updates process for this tool could be smoother. **What problems is BatchMan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Business process related various batch jobs running with batchman. i can say it is very good centrally control the business process its planning and control tool. ### 19. Great tool! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in International Trade and Development | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2020 **What do you like best about BatchMan?** Central and transparent management of the objects. As a supplement to the standard, the use of networks and orders (especially repetitions) is great! Additionally, the manufacturer always has an open ear... **What do you dislike about BatchMan?** When using BatchMan in the limited scope as we do, the pricing is quite challenging. Licensing is not transparent. However, the manufacturer is open to feedback here as well. The costs of BatchMan for ECC vs. BatchMan for S/4HANA are disproportionate. **What problems is BatchMan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Job planning with the SAP standard is not usable! We have all (99%) jobs in BatchMan. ### 20. Senior Systems & Network Technology Specialist **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2020 **What do you like best about BatchMan?** I like the complexity of BATCHMAN !! It's a very stable application. **What do you dislike about BatchMan?** I don't find samething for disliking !! **What problems is BatchMan solving and how is that benefiting you?** I know BATCHMAN since a long time. I was requested at BorgWarner to create a solution for our Supplier score card that are reponsible for all BorgWarner subsidiaries .So I had decidet to take the BATCHMAN. To start this monthly evaluiation I've created a SAP Transcation that are launching an event and the event starts the SCORE CARD evaluuation that are steered by vey complex variants. To cover all this required parameter fore the variants, I used with success BATCHMAN's TVARV solution. All the colleagues were very happy. ### 21. 16 years with BatchMan. The 100 % imbedded Scheduler for SAP. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Sporting Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2020 **What do you like best about BatchMan?** BatchMan is completely developed in ABAP code, so the look and feel is 100 % SAP like. BatchMan is a graphical Scheduler who provide a high visibility of the processes and chains. BatchMan has an imbedded file transfer interface. **What do you dislike about BatchMan?** BatchMan has very less Agent connections to non-SAP Systems. This has to be scripted. That could be a good option to be implemented for the future **Recommendations to others considering BatchMan:** BatchMan is the easyest to use SAP Scheduler **What problems is BatchMan solving and how is that benefiting you?** With BatchMan we were able to build complete end to end processes in SAP. Also a very complex execution setup is easy to realize. We were able to reduce human activities to a minimum with adding TVARV variables. ## BatchMan Discussions - [What is BatchMan used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-batchman-used-for) - [View BatchMan pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/batchman/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-20+02%3A07%3A36+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=b64d47be-1d24-4c09-837e-717675f247cd&secure%5Btoken%5D=df8d6be4fbdccb053f209a1e4a043e01a4ce6ceb7f188ce832e46c757dee1fee&format=llm_user) ## BatchMan Features **Automation** - Workload Processing - Scalability **Administration** - Administration Console - Workflow Management - IT Issue Identification - Proactive Workflow - Error Alerts - Service Management **Functionality** - Job Scheduling - API / Integrations - Integrations **Agentic AI - Workload Automation** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top BatchMan Alternatives - [PagerDuty](https://www.g2.com/products/pagerduty/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (913 reviews) - [Tines](https://www.g2.com/products/tines/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (392 reviews) - [RunMyJobs](https://www.g2.com/products/runmyjobs/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (310 reviews)