Fortra’s Automate vs. The Bot Platform

Fortra’s Automate

Fortra’s Automate

15 Reviews and Ratings

The Bot Platform

The Bot Platform

0 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Fortra’s Automate	Score 9.0 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
The Bot Platform	Score 0.0 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	To support a better employee experience, The Bot Platform is presented as an easy to use, no-code platform allows anyone to build their own bots, digital assistants and automated work tools on communication channels like Microsoft Teams, Workplace from Facebook and Messenger. With it, users can build apps, automate workflows and integrate processes into communication channels and digital environments being used by staff and customers in a trusted, secure and scalable environment.…	$1,300 per month

Pricing

Fortra’s Automate

The Bot Platform

Editions & Modules

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Starting license fee: $1300.00
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Fortra’s Automate	The Bot Platform
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	Yes

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Fortra’s Automate	The Bot Platform
Top Pros	Pro Easy to use Pro Different format Pro Legacy system	No answers on this topic
Top Cons	Minus Memory management Minus Memory leaks Minus Reporting capability	No answers on this topic

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User Ratings
	Fortra’s Automate	The Bot Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Fortra’s Automate	The Bot Platform
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. Incentivized Kwame H. Baptiste IT Dept. Manager Read full review	The Bot Platform No answers on this topic
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The Bot Platform No answers on this topic
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). Incentivized David Croney Operations Analyst Senior Read full review	The Bot Platform No answers on this topic
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. Incentivized Kwame H. Baptiste IT Dept. Manager Read full review	The Bot Platform 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. Incentivized Kwame H. Baptiste IT Dept. Manager Read full review	The Bot Platform No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Fortra Incentivized Farjad Habib Senior Software Engineer Read full review	The Bot Platform No answers on this topic
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The Bot Platform No answers on this topic
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