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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Fortra’s Automate

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AFortra'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

    Pega Platform

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/APega Platform is a combined business process management and robotic process automation (RPA) platform with advanced workforce analytics from Pegasystems.

    $0.45

    one-time fee per case**

    SAP Replication Server

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASAP's Sybase Replication Server is database development and management software.N/A
    Pricing
    Fortra’s AutomatePega PlatformSAP Replication Server
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Low-code Factory Edition
    $0.45
    one-time fee per case**
    Standard Edition
    $0.80
    one-time fee per case**
    Enterprise Edition
    Custom Quote
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Fortra’s AutomatePega PlatformSAP Replication Server
    Free Trial
    YesYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details**350,000 cases / year minimum. Additional cases available in blocks of 150,000.
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    Key User Insights
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    90%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    78%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Fortra’s AutomatePega PlatformSAP Replication Server
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Fortra’s Automate and Pega Platform and SAP Replication Server
    Feature
    Fortra’s Automate
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    5.3
    63 Ratings
    37% below category average
    SAP Replication Server
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards00 Ratings4.062 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings6.062 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings6.061 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Fortra’s Automate and Pega Platform and SAP Replication Server
    Feature
    Fortra’s Automate
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    8.0
    66 Ratings
    4% below category average
    SAP Replication Server
    -
    Ratings
    Process designer00 Ratings9.065 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings7.957 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings10.065 Ratings00 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings7.151 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings7.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings5.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings9.059 Ratings00 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings8.956 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Fortra’s Automate and Pega Platform and SAP Replication Server
    Feature
    Fortra’s Automate
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    9.0
    50 Ratings
    8% above category average
    SAP Replication Server
    -
    Ratings
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings9.050 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Fortra’s Automate and Pega Platform and SAP Replication Server
    Feature
    Fortra’s Automate
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    4.4
    9 Ratings
    59% below category average
    SAP Replication Server
    -
    Ratings
    Content management00 Ratings4.49 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Fortra’s Automate and Pega Platform and SAP Replication Server
    Feature
    Fortra’s Automate
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Replication Server
    10.0
    3 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Fortra’s Automate and Pega Platform and SAP Replication Server
    Feature
    Fortra’s Automate
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Replication Server
    10.0
    3 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Simple transformations00 Ratings00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Complex transformations00 Ratings00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Fortra’s Automate and Pega Platform and SAP Replication Server
    Feature
    Fortra’s Automate
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Replication Server
    7.6
    3 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Metadata management00 Ratings00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow00 Ratings00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Collaboration00 Ratings00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Testing and debugging00 Ratings00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Fortra’s Automate and Pega Platform and SAP Replication Server
    Feature
    Fortra’s Automate
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Replication Server
    8.0
    3 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings00 Ratings6.03 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Fortra’s AutomatePega PlatformSAP Replication Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    7.9
    (74 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Fortra’s AutomatePega PlatformSAP Replication Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Fortra
    It's great for repetitive or regularly scheduled activities like reports or file transfers. However, it's not so good for on-demand activities. It doesn't support task shortcuts to run specific tasks. If it did it would be perfect.
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    Pegasystems
    Pega Platform has introduced the low code feature, using app studio seasonal and professional developer can develop application easily and quickly. The initial application can be build by Business analyst and product owner who has less knowledge of Pega Platform, further application can be enhanced/extended by professional developer. We can develop end to end application and promote to higher environment. Easily we can perform parallel development using branch.
    Incentivized
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    SAP
    I asked questions about a warm standby and multicast replication. We ended up using bi-directional replication and a warm standby db. Having 3 or more live OLTP DB's where each was read-write was going to be difficult to manage for contention if the same table was being updated. We stuck with an easier solution to have only two OLTP's, and then used additional DB's as read-only DW's.
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    Pros
    Fortra
    • Very detailed task builder. Easy to read step by step a task's operation even if you don't have much programming knowledge.
    • Scheduling for automation jobs is very flexible. Allows us to create all kinds of job schedules as needed.
    • Organization of jobs, tasks, conditions is done well. Allows us to easily manage our items.
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    Pegasystems
    • Quick development time. Much of the Pega "rules" are easy to configure and implement.
    • Visually friendly and modern. Much of the UI/UX elements in the system are continuously supported and updated, giving a nice feel to the apps.
    • Many of the configurations and rules Pega gives to the developers can also be delegated to business users. The organization and structure of the client's business can easily be adapted in the Pega platform.
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    SAP
    • guaranteed delivery
    • high availability
    • scalable
    • low latency
    • data transformation
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    Cons
    Fortra
    • A reporting capability on tasks: enabled, disabled, by folder, by trigger, etc. Currently there is none.
    • An "OR" in their conditional statements - currently there is only "AND".
    • Some kind of temporary backup when changing a task - separate from the current back up/restore functionality (which works well).
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    Pegasystems
    • Need more learning materials. For Beginners who have previous programming experience with another language takes more time to learn.
    • If the developer is met with an issue in pega platform , they have to rely on Pega supporting team to fix it.
    • Customization is available but is not encouraged. Pega does not support faults that occur in customized solutions.
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    SAP
    • Data Reconciliation Functionality.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Fortra
    No answers on this topic
    Pegasystems
    Pegasystems has continued to demonstrate a strong partnership with our organization and investment in their product that aligns with our overall vision and need. Pegasystems has engaged us at every level, with the assistance of minor defects to the overall roadmap planning and alignment of our goals
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    SAP
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    Usability
    Fortra
    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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    Pegasystems
    Pega Platform is enhancing its product and launching new features day by day which help to achieve customers needs. If I talk about the earlier version of Pega Platform (i.e. pega v5 and 6.3) there were many numbers of limitations in Pega Platform and if we need to do some customization then needed to write custom java and jave scripts to achieve the functionally. Now I can say Pega Platform is running with market trends and demand. Pega Platform is giving all the options which support the current technologies like decisioning capabilities, real time processing, mashup, process fabrics etc..
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Fortra
    Support is very helpful and responsive, although using the tool is very user-friendly, so I hardly use the service.
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    Pegasystems
    It’s very slow sometimes, but that may be our servers. Also the Knowledge Library needs some work - again, not sure if it’s our setup or what- but I’m unable to search the body of an article for content, so I have to be very intentional with tagging, but it’s not ideal.
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    SAP
    SAP support has been outstanding. They have quick response times and always meet their SLAs. Any time we have an issue that needs to be researched they are able to get back to us quickly with resolution.
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    Online Training
    Fortra
    No answers on this topic
    Pegasystems
    The online training is an excellent one, but still it is missing hands on development.
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Fortra
    No answers on this topic
    Pegasystems
    Implementation is totally depend up on the requirement
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Fortra
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    Pegasystems
    We did evaluate multiple products offerings with Pega Platform capabilities and observed that Pega PRPC rules engine and case management capabilities are better over so many BPM Tools. We also conducted a detailed study with developers to identify the best products out of Suite of BPM products. It's observed that Rules engines integration is very streamlined with forms in Pega whereas other tools multiple have powerful data model capabilities but lacks the ease of creating business rules.
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    SAP
    Hands down Sybase has the best replication
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    Return on Investment
    Fortra
    • It's been a net positive as AutoMate requires less eyes on specific tasks so that people can focus attention elsewhere and do more analysis.
    • Less manual work also decreases the chances of mistakes and/or missed jobs. Since Automate can schedule everything, send email notifications, etc., there is less time wasted.
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    Pegasystems
    • For one of the applications we worked on, we were able to reduce the processing time on a case from 2 days to 20 minutes by utilizing Pega
    • We were able to resolve the issue of the routing of cases to users based on a specific algorithm by use of Pega
    • Pega case management feature was extensively used in one of the application to establish a parent-child relationship which was very helpful for all the business users
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    SAP
    • A positive is that it allow quick business decision making on the basis of real time data. Huge time saving for business.
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