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ActiveBatch Workload Automation

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What is ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

ActiveBatch from Advanced Systems Concepts in New Jersey is IT workload automation software.

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ActiveBatch Workload Automation is a versatile software that allows businesses to streamline their operations by automating various tasks …
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Automation made easy

9 out of 10
May 15, 2023
The pre built job function in ActiveBatch Workload Automation helped the team in accelerate the automation process by facilitating us to …
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Popular Features

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  • Analysis and visualization (21)
    9.7
    97%
  • Logging (21)
    9.7
    97%
  • Alerts and notifications (22)
    9.6
    96%
  • Central monitoring (22)
    9.6
    96%

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ActiveBatch from Advanced Systems Concepts in New Jersey is IT workload automation software.

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Workload Automation

Workload automation tools manage event-based scheduling and resource management across a wide variety of applications, databases and architectures

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Product Details

What is ActiveBatch Workload Automation?

Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. (ASCI) offers its Enterprise Job Scheduling and Workload Automation Solution, ActiveBatch.

ActiveBatch coordinates and consolidates silos of automation within a single framework. The goal is to give businesses the IT agility they need and reduce the time expended on managing and supporting multiple automation tools and silos. ActiveBatch provides users with advanced job scheduling and workload automation capabilities for reliable and adaptable integration with an array of applications, databases, platforms, and technologies. IT organizations can reduce their dependency on custom scripting with the ActiveBatch Integrated Jobs Library, which features hundreds of pre-built, proven, drag-and-drop integrations for commonly-scripted actions and functions in a multitude of different automation areas including workload, business and IT processes, managed file transfer, big data, and more.

ActiveBatch Workload Automation Features

Workload Automation Features

  • Supported: Multi-platform scheduling
  • Supported: Central monitoring
  • Supported: Logging
  • Supported: Alerts and notifications
  • Supported: Analysis and visualization
  • Supported: Application integration

ActiveBatch Workload Automation Videos

Find out how ActiveBatch can simplify your IT complexity with an industry leading job scheduling and workload automation solution! Most organizations have between 3 and 8 different automation tools in place. This results in an increased cost of IT Operations, siloed processes...
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The pace of business is accelerating. Business teams need real-time information faster than ever before. ActiveBatch Self-Service Portal empowers business users to take on daily and ad hoc processes with a business user-friendly, web-based interface for desktop or tablet brows...
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ActiveBatch Workload Automation Integrations

ActiveBatch Workload Automation Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac, UNIX, Mac OS, IBM z/OS, Hyper-V, VMware, and more
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web

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ActiveBatch from Advanced Systems Concepts in New Jersey is IT workload automation software.

Reviewers rate Logging and Analysis and visualization highest, with a score of 9.7.

The most common users of ActiveBatch Workload Automation are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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ActiveBatch Workload Automation is a versatile software that allows businesses to streamline their operations by automating various tasks and workflows. Users have reported that the software is particularly useful in scheduling and automating jobs, eliminating the need for manual monitoring and saving time. With its options for triggers, ActiveBatch reduces the use of boilerplate code and automates actions based on events, making it efficient for running workflows, reports, analytics jobs, and data quality checks.

The software's ability to schedule data refreshes for testing purposes has been highly praised by users as it aids in development and testing priorities. ActiveBatch is also effective in planning daily activities such as managing purchase orders, tracking supplier activities, generating reports, and planning customer orders. Its good display, extensive options, and excellent user interface make it easy for users to perform various activities.

Furthermore, ActiveBatch serves as a centralized platform for managing and automating IT activities like work scheduling, data processing, file transfers, and application integration. It has been successfully utilized across various sectors including IT, manufacturing, healthcare, finance, and banking. By automating complex workflows and business processes, ActiveBatch increases productivity while reducing errors and improving overall efficiency.

Users appreciate the software's flexibility in automating redundant tasks within multiple departments. It has helped organizations set standards, improve security measures, and provide web-based access to end-users. With its powerful scheduling and workflow automation abilities, ActiveBatch has proven to be an invaluable tool for streamlining more complex processes.

Overall, ActiveBatch Workload Automation offers a wide range of use cases across industries, addressing different business problems efficiently with minimal human intervention.

Automatic job scheduling functionality: Users highly appreciate ActiveBatch's automatic job scheduling functionality, as it eliminates the need for manual intervention and ensures that tasks are executed at the desired time. Several reviewers have mentioned that this feature has significantly improved their productivity by reducing the amount of time spent on managing schedules.

Streamlining of workflows: Many users have praised ActiveBatch for its ability to streamline workflows. They find it easy to design and modify processes using the graphical workflow builder, which allows them to visually construct and modify workflows by simply dragging and dropping elements. This feature has been particularly helpful in optimizing resource allocation and minimizing conflicts or bottlenecks in job execution.

Cross-platform compatibility: The cross-platform compatibility of ActiveBatch is highly valued by users who work with multiple systems and applications. They appreciate that the software supports various platforms, enabling seamless automation and management of processes across different environments. This flexibility has been mentioned as a key strength by several reviewers, allowing them to automate complex workflows involving various platforms without any issues.

Triggers Fail: Some users have reported that triggers sometimes fail, causing significant issues in their workflows. These failures can disrupt the automation process and hinder smooth operations, leading to delays or errors in task execution.

Lack of Proper Documentation: A common complaint from reviewers is the lack of proper documentation for new features. Users have expressed the need for more detailed and comprehensive documentation to understand and effectively utilize these features. The absence of clear instructions often results in confusion and difficulty when trying to implement new functionalities.

Confusing User Interface: Several users find the user interface to be confusing and overwhelming, especially for novice users. They believe that simplifying the interface would greatly enhance navigation and improve overall user experience. The complex layout, hidden menus, and multiple clicks required to access certain functions make it challenging to manage jobs and configure processes efficiently.

Users recommend the following for ActiveBatch: Take advantage of the training and support provided by following the academy videos and completing the ActiveBatch boot camp. Seek advice from senior engineers and find a community of users for support. Plan properly before setting up ActiveBatch and ensure you have a good Customer Support representative. Start small with ActiveBatch and gradually expand its use. Design jobs/plans properly to maximize the benefits of the tool. Consider the complexity of automation when choosing ActiveBatch and utilize AB Professional services for software configuration. Review 3rd party integration capabilities in advance and ensure compatibility with existing systems and processes. Use ActiveBatch to reduce manual intervention and automate operational necessities, such as generating and sending data files to vendor solutions.

Overall, users believe that ActiveBatch is a robust tool for IT scheduling needs, offering a wide range of features and excellent support. They emphasize the importance of training, planning, community support, gradual expansion, integration considerations, and automation efficiency when using ActiveBatch.

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We use ActiveBatch to run our DW Informatica workflows, daily tableau reports, analytics jobs, and ICEDQ rules. This allows us to minimize downtime/errors when coordinating data loads, reporting, data quality, and analysis jobs. We can also easily scheduled prod to test data refreshes which helps our team and others with development and testing priorities.
  • Makes scheduling easy to understand, follow, and rerun jobs when necessary.
  • Allows for cross-team coordination of scheduled tasks which reduces errors.
  • Makes stopping jobs easy when needed for server/database downtime.
  • Scripting enables us to easily change email addresses for failed job alerts.
  • Nested plans/jobs make creating and changing dependencies simple.
  • On RARE occasions, have seen scheduling properties changed that don't take effect.
  • Simpler to understand/more robust reporting options would be nice to have.
  • Maybe I'm missing something, but why doesn't the Instances view show completion time? Just execution time and duration.
I can only speak for our environment, but it has allowed us to get away from the unfriendly Informatica PowerCenter workflow schedule. And coordination of Informatica/Tableau/ICEDQ has been a BIG help to us. We have not tried to drill down to the Informatica session-level of detail, just stayed with running workflows. The session-level logic seemed complicated.
  • Scheduling Informatica PowerCenter workflows.
  • Ability to trigger dependent jobs easily.
  • Using the Stop/start queues options for maintenance outages of our databases.
Workload Automation (6)
96.66666666666666%
9.7
Multi-platform scheduling
100%
10.0
Central monitoring
90%
9.0
Logging
90%
9.0
Alerts and notifications
100%
10.0
Analysis and visualization
100%
10.0
Application integration
100%
10.0
  • We have saved time of our development teams when implementing new jobs.
  • Eliminated errors when report jobs would start before data loads.
I was not involved in the evaluation/purchase decision of ActiveBatch as that decision was made at our VP level. So I cannot comment on other product comparison.
We can easily add new plans/jobs in our batch schedules.
Also, coordination with reporting and QA jobs is simple to do.
Building schedules, restarting jobs, triggering dependencies is easy to understand.
The system is very stable and allows us to easily see overall processing times.
  • Adding/updating plans and jobs is very quick and easy to do.
  • Stopping/restarting queues for planned technical outages.
  • Setting and tracking SLA successes/misses.
  • The reporting function is somewhat limited.
Yes, but I don't use it
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