Flip vs. Fortra’s Automate

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Flip
Score 0.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Flip is an Employee Experience Platform (EXP) and Employee App designed to serve as a centralized, mobile-first interface for frontline and non-desk workforces. The solution unifies Internal Communications, HR Self-Service, and Operational Workflow Automation into a single application to eliminate the digital gap between corporate headquarters and frontline personnel.
$1,400
per month
Fortra’s Automate
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Fortra's Automate (formerly HelpSystems Automate) is a robotic process automation platform for desktop applications. According to the vendor, it offers the ability to automate almost any business process, and no technical expertise is required—IT and business users alike can understand the drag-and-drop interface.N/A
Pricing
FlipFortra’s Automate
Editions & Modules
Starting license fee
$1400.00
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FlipFortra’s Automate
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
FlipFortra’s Automate
Considered Both Products
Flip

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Fortra’s Automate
Chose Fortra’s Automate
It has similar usage cases and functions. However, many tools are stuck behind paywalls and always try to upsell you to the next version. It's very upsetting. Even if it's cheaper, whenever I try to replicate the functionality, I get that annoying message, "not available in …
Chose Fortra’s Automate
At an older job we used to use SSIS as kind of an automation tool as well as it could also be used to connect to FTP sources, read files, etc. AutoMate is simply centrally designed to be true automation software. It is much more robust, can work with a variety of software …
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User Ratings
FlipFortra’s Automate
Likelihood to Recommend
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10.0
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Usability
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10.0
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Support Rating
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10.0
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User Testimonials
FlipFortra’s Automate
Likelihood to Recommend
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Anything where automation would be helpful, I'd recommend. If you're doing a task over and over again, Automate can likely work and do it for you. It helps to keep things running exactly the same so that when failures occur, they can easily be traced to their source.
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Pros
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  • Wiki pages
  • Blogs
  • Articles
  • Triggers
  • Building crons
  • Automating daily tasks
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Cons
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  • There should be more tools around system stability and recovery.
  • Better ways to manage resources to prevent OS crashes.
  • Automate backups internally without tasks.
  • System failure alerts if the machine crashes or reboots.
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Usability
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It's just very easy to use, extremely versatile, and very reliable. It's hard to find use cases where it won't work.
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Support Rating
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Support is very helpful and responsive, although using the tool is very user-friendly, so I hardly use the service.
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Alternatives Considered
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It has similar usage cases and functions. However, many tools are stuck behind paywalls and always try to upsell you to the next version. It's very upsetting. Even if it's cheaper, whenever I try to replicate the functionality, I get that annoying message, "not available in this version." As an IT professional who needs approval for every purchase, I can't keep asking for upgrades to existing tools.
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Return on Investment
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  • Positive: Reliability on FTP jobs - really important on bank files.
  • Negative - annual support a little pricey - but not unusual for this level of software.
  • Positive: Does not require a dedicated administrator, especially after the jobs are created and tested. I perform other job duties and this rarely interferes with them.
  • Positive - Since it is easy to learn and use it makes it easy to have a back up administrator
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ScreenShots

Flip Screenshots

Screenshot of a display of all of the messages that make up a botScreenshot of the bot building interfaceScreenshot of the interface to schedule broadcasts and send alerts to all or specific segments of staffScreenshot of where to set up drip campaigns to send content to staff over a defined period of timeScreenshot of where to automatically send relevant content to staff based on associated keywordsScreenshot of the interface that displays ignored messages and where to add new keywords and auto replies

Fortra’s Automate Screenshots

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