Azure Batch vs. Redwood RunMyJobs

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Batch
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Azure Batch is cloud-scale job scheduling and compute management.N/A
Redwood RunMyJobs
Score 9.4 out of 10
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Redwood Business Process Automation is a workload automation and job scheduling solution designed for and delivered via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). It transforms the digital enterprise with scalability and integration with all technologies in the modern enterprise. Redwood unifies workflows across on-premises, private, hybrid and public cloud environments. It bridges gaps in complex processes that function between mainframe, distributed, virtual and cloud resources. Clients use Redwood to…N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Workload Automation
Comparison of Workload Automation features of Product A and Product B
Azure Batch
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Ratings
Redwood RunMyJobs
9.4
21 Ratings
14% above category average
Multi-platform scheduling00 Ratings9.621 Ratings
Central monitoring00 Ratings9.421 Ratings
Logging00 Ratings9.421 Ratings
Alerts and notifications00 Ratings9.421 Ratings
Analysis and visualization00 Ratings9.621 Ratings
Application integration00 Ratings9.220 Ratings
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ActiveBatch Workload Automation
ActiveBatch Workload Automation
Score 8.6 out of 10
Enterprises
AWS Batch
AWS Batch
Score 7.8 out of 10
ignio AIOps
ignio AIOps
Score 8.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure BatchRedwood RunMyJobs
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(3 ratings)
9.5
(27 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
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9.1
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
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7.1
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure BatchRedwood RunMyJobs
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
To better serve their consumers, businesses that often interact with those clients who rely on Microsoft's software products may consider migrating to Azure. This program would be useful in any installation of a Microsoft product or suite that necessitates a test of the target environment. It is simple to maintain and implement, making it an ideal IT backbone. If a client doesn't have any use for this particular instrument, it's not going to be of any benefit to them.
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Redwood Software
The automation of batch processing operations like file transfers, data backups, and report production is a good fit for Redwood Workload Automation. Organizations' IT operations can be streamlined and made more efficient because to its capacity to automate and schedule these procedures across a variety of platforms. Redwood Workload Automation is highly suited for automating complicated business operations within SAP settings and has a close interaction with SAP systems. Organizations may automate and streamline their SAP processes with the help of its ability to handle SAP tasks, spools, and workflows. Redwood Workload Automation excels at automating workloads on a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Unix, and other cloud environments. This makes it a viable option for businesses that need automation across numerous systems and have complex IT infrastructures. For large businesses with complicated IT environments, Redwood Workload Automation was created. It is the perfect option for enterprises with high-volume transaction processing requirements due to its scalability and capacity for handling large-scale workloads.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Ease of scripting
  • Scheduling
  • Combination of Data Sets
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Redwood Software
  • SAP Batch Scheduling - This is THE BEST tool for triggering SAP jobs, bar none.
  • User management- Other scheduling tools make it much more difficult to manage user access. Redwood user access management is a breeze and take less than half the time it take in other products.
  • Scheduling Flexibility- The ease with which you can make custom time windows with Redwood is one of my favorite pluses. You can build as simple or as complex of a time window as you need to with Redwood.
  • Support- The support that you get from Redwood is in my opinion the best in the world. I have dealt with all the big name players in IT and they all pale in comparison to Redwood. You will never feel like you are in it alone with the best support in the world right at your fingertips.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • The UI could be a little more clearer in my opinion.
  • Password resets would be nice to have in any instance (not just the default area).
  • Easier to migrate repeated account that may have been created.
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Redwood Software
  • A dashboard for checking the overall health of the tool
  • Direct excel export option is unavailable to transport the jobs.
  • Mobile notification is also helpful for those user who worked in 24*7 shift. if this option will available it is very useful for those user who needs to check system again and again
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
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Redwood Software
Being in the cloud is a big help, with less hardware to maintain, the patches and updates are fast and easily done, we have built a good working relationship with Redwood.
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Usability
Microsoft
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Redwood Software
The Redwood user interface is straightforward. The script can be used to renew the Redwood license by just copying the text from the. txt file from start to finish of license. The current page and the status of the work can both be refreshed automatically by setting a timer in Redwood. Redwood software's eye-catching features include online help through documentation and help support, which may be accessed by clicking the "I" button in the top right corner.
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Support Rating
Microsoft
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Redwood Software
It seems many pressing issues have to be escalated to their dev team, which I believe is mostly overseas. The response time isn't always the greatest. I go back to the documentation as well, if that was better there would be less need of support from myself. There are also times when they figure out the resolution, it has to be included with a fix in which you have to wait for the next release, however long that may be. Update - the support response time and quality of answers has greatly increased in the past 6 months or more.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Both are excellent resources that successfully deliver the promised benefits. Two rival businesses, each with its own distinct culture and set of goals. As far as IT assistance goes, I find Azure's user interface to be slightly more intuitive. Both resources are valuable and have their advantages and disadvantages. Both are crucial if you run a fast-paced business with a large consumer base.
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Redwood Software
Hi, We use redwood workload automation for scheduling jobs and for automatic alerts generation in case of long running and failed jobs. It provides easy access of managing jobs and controlling the flow of automation. Alerts generated keeps us up to date of the long running jobs as well as failed jobs. Configuring the jobs is easy and scheduling them through redwood makes it very effective for 24hours monitoring. The Redwood Support team is very helpful and gives prompt response and faster resolution when needed.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • After setting things up we have reduced time in running all of the processing
  • It is promising in allowing us to concentrate on the data rather than the formatting and presentation that can all be automated after it has been processed
  • We have reduced the number of products we used before adopting Batch
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Redwood Software
  • Simple to install Redwood Workload Automation agent servers on every server side and trigger the necessary jobs in keeping with business needs.
  • Allows for the interdependent scheduling of groups of Windows scripts and shell scripts.
  • Many problems have been fixed, such as the ability to gather data on the number of activities that are executed each day, receive email notifications when a job expires, and connect system agents to monitors.
  • capable of adhering to SLAs for complicated order flows
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ScreenShots

Redwood RunMyJobs Screenshots

Screenshot of Dashboard users see when first logging in.Screenshot of Shows a specific process definition, how a user would edit that definition.Screenshot of Built in testing environment to run the definition without leaving the definitionScreenshot of Editing a whole process chain, not just a single processScreenshot of Shows the Process Monitor where we can see the status of the chain execution, this instance is with an errorScreenshot of Shows the Process Monitor where we can see the status of the chain execution, this instance is without an error