Fortra’s Automate vs. Redwood RunMyJobs

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
Redwood RunMyJobs
Score 9.4 out of 10
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Redwood Business Process Automation is a workload automation and job scheduling solution designed for and delivered via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). It transforms the digital enterprise with scalability and integration with all technologies in the modern enterprise. Redwood unifies workflows across on-premises, private, hybrid and public cloud environments. It bridges gaps in complex processes that function between mainframe, distributed, virtual and cloud resources. Clients use Redwood to…N/A
Pricing
Fortra’s AutomateRedwood RunMyJobs
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Fortra’s AutomateRedwood RunMyJobs
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Features
Fortra’s AutomateRedwood RunMyJobs
Workload Automation
Comparison of Workload Automation features of Product A and Product B
Fortra’s Automate
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Ratings
Redwood RunMyJobs
9.4
21 Ratings
14% above category average
Multi-platform scheduling00 Ratings9.621 Ratings
Central monitoring00 Ratings9.421 Ratings
Logging00 Ratings9.421 Ratings
Alerts and notifications00 Ratings9.421 Ratings
Analysis and visualization00 Ratings9.621 Ratings
Application integration00 Ratings9.220 Ratings
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User Ratings
Fortra’s AutomateRedwood RunMyJobs
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(4 ratings)
9.5
(27 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.1
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Fortra’s AutomateRedwood RunMyJobs
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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Redwood Software
The automation of batch processing operations like file transfers, data backups, and report production is a good fit for Redwood Workload Automation. Organizations' IT operations can be streamlined and made more efficient because to its capacity to automate and schedule these procedures across a variety of platforms. Redwood Workload Automation is highly suited for automating complicated business operations within SAP settings and has a close interaction with SAP systems. Organizations may automate and streamline their SAP processes with the help of its ability to handle SAP tasks, spools, and workflows. Redwood Workload Automation excels at automating workloads on a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Unix, and other cloud environments. This makes it a viable option for businesses that need automation across numerous systems and have complex IT infrastructures. For large businesses with complicated IT environments, Redwood Workload Automation was created. It is the perfect option for enterprises with high-volume transaction processing requirements due to its scalability and capacity for handling large-scale workloads.
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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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Redwood Software
  • SAP Batch Scheduling - This is THE BEST tool for triggering SAP jobs, bar none.
  • User management- Other scheduling tools make it much more difficult to manage user access. Redwood user access management is a breeze and take less than half the time it take in other products.
  • Scheduling Flexibility- The ease with which you can make custom time windows with Redwood is one of my favorite pluses. You can build as simple or as complex of a time window as you need to with Redwood.
  • Support- The support that you get from Redwood is in my opinion the best in the world. I have dealt with all the big name players in IT and they all pale in comparison to Redwood. You will never feel like you are in it alone with the best support in the world right at your fingertips.
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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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Redwood Software
  • A dashboard for checking the overall health of the tool
  • Direct excel export option is unavailable to transport the jobs.
  • Mobile notification is also helpful for those user who worked in 24*7 shift. if this option will available it is very useful for those user who needs to check system again and again
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Likelihood to Renew
Fortra
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Redwood Software
Being in the cloud is a big help, with less hardware to maintain, the patches and updates are fast and easily done, we have built a good working relationship with Redwood.
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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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Redwood Software
The Redwood user interface is straightforward. The script can be used to renew the Redwood license by just copying the text from the. txt file from start to finish of license. The current page and the status of the work can both be refreshed automatically by setting a timer in Redwood. Redwood software's eye-catching features include online help through documentation and help support, which may be accessed by clicking the "I" button in the top right corner.
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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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Redwood Software
It seems many pressing issues have to be escalated to their dev team, which I believe is mostly overseas. The response time isn't always the greatest. I go back to the documentation as well, if that was better there would be less need of support from myself. There are also times when they figure out the resolution, it has to be included with a fix in which you have to wait for the next release, however long that may be. Update - the support response time and quality of answers has greatly increased in the past 6 months or more.
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Alternatives Considered
Fortra
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Redwood Software
Hi, We use redwood workload automation for scheduling jobs and for automatic alerts generation in case of long running and failed jobs. It provides easy access of managing jobs and controlling the flow of automation. Alerts generated keeps us up to date of the long running jobs as well as failed jobs. Configuring the jobs is easy and scheduling them through redwood makes it very effective for 24hours monitoring. The Redwood Support team is very helpful and gives prompt response and faster resolution when needed.
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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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Redwood Software
  • Simple to install Redwood Workload Automation agent servers on every server side and trigger the necessary jobs in keeping with business needs.
  • Allows for the interdependent scheduling of groups of Windows scripts and shell scripts.
  • Many problems have been fixed, such as the ability to gather data on the number of activities that are executed each day, receive email notifications when a job expires, and connect system agents to monitors.
  • capable of adhering to SLAs for complicated order flows
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ScreenShots

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Redwood RunMyJobs Screenshots

Screenshot of Dashboard users see when first logging in.Screenshot of Shows a specific process definition, how a user would edit that definition.Screenshot of Built in testing environment to run the definition without leaving the definitionScreenshot of Editing a whole process chain, not just a single processScreenshot of Shows the Process Monitor where we can see the status of the chain execution, this instance is with an errorScreenshot of Shows the Process Monitor where we can see the status of the chain execution, this instance is without an error