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    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

    Stitch, a Qlik product

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AStitch, or Stitch Data, now from Qlik is an ETL tool for developers; the company was spun off from RJMetrics after that company's acquisition by Magento. Qlik recommends users try Qlik Talend Cloud, though the Stitch platform is still available for data pipeline management to those who prefer it.N/A
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    Fortra’s AutomateStitch, a Qlik product
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Fortra’s AutomateStitch, a Qlik product
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    6.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    Fortra’s AutomateStitch, a Qlik product
    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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    Qlik
    Stitch is very cheap and useful for small to medium size companies to ingest data from common apis/platforms in a quick and cheap way.
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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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    Qlik
    • Easy integration with many sources
    • Extensible
    • Not as expensive as fivetran
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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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    Qlik
    • Stitch is not good at replicating document stores like MongoDB to relational databases. To be fair, this is a difficult task. Stitch flattens the objects, but the result is unwieldy.
    • Stitch cannot replicate the same source to multiple sinks, which is inconvenient if you want to replicate some of a datastore's tables to Redshift and others to Redshift Spectrum, for instance.
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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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    Qlik
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    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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    Qlik
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    Alternatives Considered
    Fortra
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    Qlik
    Stitch from Talend is way more cost effective and has a business model that better aligns with our company. From what I can tell Stitch from Talend has a better customer support platform as well and has been very easy to work with when issues have come up. They also seem less pushy when it comes to sales.
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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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    Qlik
    • Good ROI in terms of being able to monitor cost performance from Google, Facebook, etc.
    • Easy to have Salesforce data and Intercom data for dashboards.
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