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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

    TIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ATIBCO Cloud Nimbus was a business process analysis offering, from Palo Alto-headquartered in TIBCO. The product was sunsetted in 2024.

    $199

    per month

    Pricing
    Fortra’s AutomateTIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Essentials
    $199
    per month
    Professional
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Fortra’s AutomateTIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Features
    Fortra’s AutomateTIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Fortra’s Automate and TIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    Feature
    Fortra’s Automate
    -
    Ratings
    TIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Fortra’s Automate and TIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    Feature
    Fortra’s Automate
    -
    Ratings
    TIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    7.9
    1 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Process designer00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Fortra’s Automate and TIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    Feature
    Fortra’s Automate
    -
    Ratings
    TIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Fortra’s AutomateTIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
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    Process Street
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Robotic Process Automation
    Score8.4 out of 10
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    UiPath Automation Platform
    Score8.5 out of 10
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Fortra’s AutomateTIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Fortra’s AutomateTIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    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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    TIBCO Cloud Nimbus is a business app for process documentation. It gives visualization of how people, processes and systems should interact. People from your organization can generate diagrams and how things should be processed. Good for technical and IT people to draw up diagrams so they know what they can follow for their IT process. Good for big IT teams. Could be little complex for some people. Might not feed everyone's needs but it's helpful for IT teams that want to document and diagram their technical work. You can create a step-by-step workflow management for tech people and also have non technical people follow the diagrams. It takes some time but you get the hang of it sooner or later.
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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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    • Team collaboration.
    • Nice diagrams.
    • Solids functions.
    • Pretty easy to use.
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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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    • Could use more integrations.
    • Customer support could be better.
    • UI could be better.
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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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    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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    Discontinued Products
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    Alternatives Considered
    Fortra
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • Clear documentations.
    • Clear communication to IT team.
    • Quicker workflow.
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