Fortra’s Automate vs. ListGrabber

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Fortra’s Automate
Score 9.0 out of 10
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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
ListGrabber
Score 4.0 out of 10
N/A
ListGrabber is a Data Extraction Software that enables users to capture name, company mailing address, email, phone and fax number, etc. of likely prospects or business contacts. The Internet has many sources of free leads that users can use to market products and services. ListGrabber is a sales lead generation software that allows users to build lead and prospect lists from various publicly available sources of free leads on the Internet. This data extraction software can be…
$249.95
per user
Pricing
Fortra’s AutomateListGrabber
Editions & Modules
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ListGrabber Standard 2020
$249.95
per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Fortra’s AutomateListGrabber
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsOne Purchase Version License - Unlimited Data Extractions
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User Ratings
Fortra’s AutomateListGrabber
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(4 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Fortra’s AutomateListGrabber
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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eGrabber
Since we use ListGrabber basically only for mail outs and extractions out of Yellow Pages, our organisation is probably not the best one to provide such information.
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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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eGrabber
  • Easy to use - Pretty user friendly.
  • Compatible with Australian Yellow Pages.
  • Extracts information into Excel which helps us to create mail outs.
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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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eGrabber
  • Drivers are updated constantly by Yellow Pages. Since we use ListGrabber only twice or thrice a year it is not really worthwhile to purchase new versions each year. The product should come with at least a couple of years of free updates.
  • Product crashes from time to time when extracting a large amount of information.
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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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eGrabber
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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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eGrabber
No answers on this topic
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eGrabber
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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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eGrabber
  • Increased efficiency - ListGrabber helps us get pages of contacts in a few hours, which would probably take days if done manually.
  • Since the product extracts to Excel, it is easy to convert into mail out formats.
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ListGrabber Screenshots

Screenshot of List Grabber captured a list from YellowPages.com in a single clickScreenshot of ListGrabber extracts the list of contacts from yellow pages directories to excel