ActiveBatch Workload Automation vs Broadcom Automic Automation (formerly CA Automic Automation Platform)

Likelihood to Recommend

I used to work in a company that only used SQL Server Agent to handle imports and exports of ETL data. ActiveBatch is far more powerful and easy to use, so I definitely would recommend it. I would think of three questions: (1) Do you handle a large volume of exports and imports in a given week? (2) Do you need a lot of configurable options, such as with scheduling? (3) Do you utilize a variety of ETL processing tools (such as GlobalScape EFT and Microsoft SSIS) but want one tool to work with them all? If yes to those questions, then ActiveBatch would well fit the bill for you then.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Information Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Automic One Automation Platform (formerly CA Automic Automation Platform) is well suited for applications such as SAP and operating systems such as windows, Linux. It can be used to automate these applications as it can be done through remote function calls and business application peripheral interfaces. It can also be used to run scripts on remote machines, which further enables automation of ms office applications such as ms Excel and MS Word.

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Shreyash Rangarajan

Senior Analyst

CapgeminiInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

ActiveBatch Workload Automation

Broadcom Automic Automation (formerly CA Automic Automation Platform)

Multi-platform scheduling

Central monitoring

Logging

Alerts and notifications

Analysis and visualization

Application integration

Pros

Everything in one place
Easily manage multiple machines and their scripts
Supposed to allow for more in-depth schedule 'chaining', e.g. when this job ends it kicks off another

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Sean Ford

DBA

MU HealthCareHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 5001-10,000 employees

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Job execution
Job chaining

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Gregory Hanson

Lead Middleware Engineer

The OCCInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

The manual could provide more examples of how to create certain jobs, otherwise you will need to check the site or call support to aid with creation.
Dashboard presentation could be worked on, to help present an overview for management.

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Ron Zermeno

Network Engineer

LINN Energy, LLCOil & Energy, 1001-5000 employees

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Could improve the framework.
Could improve the underlying coding standards.

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Shreyash Rangarajan

Senior Analyst

CapgeminiInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

ActiveBatch Workload Automation 5.0

Based on 2 answers

ActiveBatch's usability is where it shines. It is pretty straight-forward to learn and administer. Our engineers like it because you can use a GUI to manage it or leverage the command line & api's. You can also create templates or clone existing "jobs" so you don't have to recreate the wheel. It is easy to chain jobs together to make them run in a specific sequence as well.

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Mark McCully

Senior Network Administrator

University HealthSystem ConsortiumHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Support Rating

ActiveBatch Workload Automation 4.0

Based on 2 answers

We have been pretty happy with ActiveBatch support so far. Luckily, we have not had any major issues with it - so we haven't logged a lot of support tickets. The response time to tickets is about average and the level of expertise of the support engineers seems about average as well. Our sales team has been helpful in getting faster responses when necessary as well.

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Mark McCully

Senior Network Administrator

University HealthSystem ConsortiumHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees

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Broadcom Automic Automation (formerly CA Automic Automation Platform) 4.5

Based on 4 answers

I have not used Automic One Automation Platform (formerly CA Automic Automation Platform) support.

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Gregory Hanson

Lead Middleware Engineer

The OCCInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

N/A - It was already in place when I was on the scene, but like I said earlier it is much more powerful than SQL Server Agent and probably anything we would've come up with from scratch using .Net. However if your needs are small and traffic is light, then maybe SQL Server Agent or something smaller and less powerful (and less expensive) than ActiveBatch would work just fine.

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Professional in Information Technology

Information Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Since other tools are all user interface based, they are prone to errors in terms of application exception, and the dependencies are comparatively higher for the automation to run successfully. This is not the case with the Automic One Automation Platform (formerly CA Automic Automation Platform) as the contact with application happens at the network layer and does not depend on the user interface of the application.

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Shreyash Rangarajan

Senior Analyst

CapgeminiInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

I have not been involved in the purchase or contract negotiation of our Active Batch purchase, therefore am unable to comment on the ROI.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Utilities Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Hours of server operations given over to end-users.
Single pipelines for job plan execution reduced the operational overhead.

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Gregory Hanson

Lead Middleware Engineer

The OCCInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

ActiveBatch Workload Automation

Broadcom Automic Automation (formerly CA Automic Automation Platform)

ActiveBatch Workload Automation

Broadcom Automic Automation (formerly CA Automic Automation Platform)

ActiveBatch Workload Automation

Broadcom Automic Automation (formerly CA Automic Automation Platform)