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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    OpenText Process Automation

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AOpenText Process Automation is an enterprise-scale Business Process Management (BPM) and Digital Process Automation (DPA) platform designed to orchestrate complex, data-heavy workflows. The solution specializes in Content-Centric Automation, natively integrating with enterprise content management systems to automate processes that require deep document understanding and regulatory compliance.N/A

    VisualCron

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AVisualCron is an automation, Integration and Task Scheduler tool. VisualCron combines many features into one product. VisualCron was founded in 2004. Through scheduling users can set Jobs to run on a specific time or event with the help of Triggers. The Tasks in each Job automate scripts to eliminate human errors. Through various Tasks users can integrate different systems through file transfer, encryption, compression and…N/A
    Pricing
    OpenText Process AutomationVisualCron
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    Pricing Offerings
    OpenText Process AutomationVisualCron
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$1,499 per Server
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    Features
    OpenText Process AutomationVisualCron
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of OpenText Process Automation and VisualCron
    Feature
    OpenText Process Automation
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    4% above category average
    VisualCron
    7.7
    1 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Dashboards8.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Custom reports8.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of OpenText Process Automation and VisualCron
    Feature
    OpenText Process Automation
    8.8
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    VisualCron
    4.2
    1 Ratings
    54% below category average
    Process designer9.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Process simulation9.01 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Business rules engine9.01 Ratings2.01 Ratings
    SOA support9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process player9.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form builder8.01 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Model execution8.01 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of OpenText Process Automation and VisualCron
    Feature
    OpenText Process Automation
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    4% below category average
    VisualCron
    -
    Ratings
    Social collaboration tools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of OpenText Process Automation and VisualCron
    Feature
    OpenText Process Automation
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    1% below category average
    VisualCron
    -
    Ratings
    Content management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of OpenText Process Automation and VisualCron
    Feature
    OpenText Process Automation
    -
    Ratings
    VisualCron
    3.5
    1 Ratings
    70% below category average
    API for custom integration00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Plug-ins00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Business Process Automation
    Comparison of Business Process Automation features of OpenText Process Automation and VisualCron
    Feature
    OpenText Process Automation
    -
    Ratings
    VisualCron
    4.3
    1 Ratings
    45% below category average
    Business Process Modeling00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Decision Modeling00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Code-Based Automation00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    No-Code Automation00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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    Score8 out of 10
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    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    OpenText Process AutomationVisualCron
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OpenText Process AutomationVisualCron
    Likelihood to Recommend
    OpenText
    Especially for telecom sector, AppWorks handling huge data and transform it easily and very quickly to send it to target systems with in seconds. At a time communicate more than one systems.
    Incentivized
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    NetCart DBA VisualCron
    VisualCron does accommodate continuous file processing. Like packing and unpacking compressed files, splitting or merging files, sending E-mail's and executing queries on databases. VisualCron in less suitable for performing very complex operations on files like, arithmetic with numbers, dates or amounts. Very complex job scripts become cluttered. Debugging Job scripts is not easy.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    OpenText
    • Entity model
    • BPM
    • User interface GUI
    • Integrations
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    NetCart DBA VisualCron
    • VisualCron can pack and unpack files from many types of packing methods.
    • Clear job scripts with complex constructions can be written in VisualCron
    • VisualCron provides a clear graphical overview of the situation of all jobs.
    • VisualCron clearly indicates when a job has run into an error.
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    Cons
    OpenText
    • Few Controls which needs improve from user interface
    • Custom controls
    • Data transformation
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    NetCart DBA VisualCron
    • VisualCron should more specifically indicate the root cause of an error.
    • If copying a file goes wrong, VisualCron reports 'can't copy file'. I expect 'no read permissions from original' or 'no write permissions from destination'.
    • VisualCron offers no way to execute a Job script line by line
    • In VisualCron, nested loops cannot be created.
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    Support Rating
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    NetCart DBA VisualCron
    Questions and problems can be addressed to VisualCron 's support department via E-mail. I usually get a good answer from them fairly quickly. There is also a VisualCron forum where you can ask questions that will be answered by other VisualCron users.
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    Alternatives Considered
    OpenText
    AppWorks platform is very user friendly which will help us to develop the components quickly and deploy it easily. Flows can be developed quickly compared to others platform where business users can view the flow easily.
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    NetCart DBA VisualCron
    For simple processes, VisualCron is easier to use and maintain. For complicated processes, Quadient Inspire offers more options. The graphical representations of waiting, running or completed jobs is adequate for both products. The logging of job actions is better in Quadient Inpire as in VisualCron.
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    Return on Investment
    OpenText
    • Integration management
    • Rapid development
    • SOA
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    NetCart DBA VisualCron
    • With VisualCron, I need 3 times less time to get file processing right.
    • If a VisualCron job goes wrong I need twice as much time to find the problem.
    • Visualcron does not run on Linux but on Windows which can make an upgrade and reboot take up to 6 times as long.
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