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Build, monitor and manage end-to-end processes with ActiveBatch by Redwood, an intelligent workload automation platform.

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Engage powerful features to optimize your IT operations

True workload automation (WLA) and orchestration go far beyond traditional job scheduling and batch processing. Here’s a glimpse of what you get with ActiveBatch.

Complete workflow orchestration

Build and manage complex, multi-step workflows across your systems, applications and endpoints.

Event-driven scheduling

Trigger automated workflows with real-time events so you can respond quickly to inevitable changes.

Convenient pre-built job steps

Build cohesive, end-to-end processes like order-to-cash or procure-to-pay without custom development.

Smart resource allocation

Leverage ActiveBatch’s Smart Queue or Heuristic Queue Allocation to provision the right resources at the right time.

Vast extensibility

Connect your business-critical systems and applications via pre-built integrations or the Super REST API adapter.

Empowered users

Allow your team to execute and monitor specific processes while IT handles compliance and governance.

Achieve consistent job execution

Seamless automation can’t get any easier than with ActiveBatch. With event-driven and advanced date- and time-based scheduling, pre-built job steps and a web-based self-service portal, your team can develop automations quicker than ever.

Powerful drag-and-drop integrations make it simple to manage:

Business process automation: Connect to your ERP, HR platforms, BI tools and more.
Cloud automation: Integrate with major cloud vendors, including Amazon, Microsoft and VMware.
Incident management: Enjoy two-way integrations for ServiceNow and Microsoft Service Manager.
Secure file transfers: Set up managed file transfers with support for SFTP, FTPS and web tunneling.

This is workload automation

Simplify any enterprise use case

Basic job scheduling solutions have too many constraints for large organizations. Rather than investing in siloed automation tools to make up for what your job scheduler can’t do, choose workload automation and drive efficiency across core functions, from data pipeline management and ETL to infrastructure automation and DevOps.

ActiveBatch supports all your automation needs with:

Customizable templates for your unique systems and processes
Dashboards for single-pane-of-glass visibility across the whole environment
User-friendly tools for business users to run and monitor workflows
The option to deploy in an on-premises, hybrid or cloud environment

Elevate your job scheduling

Drive efficiency with event-based triggers

Time-based scheduling that’s limited to jobs within a given operating system, such as those created in Windows Task Scheduler, can leave your processes — and business — vulnerable to human error. Instead, experience the freedom of running batch jobs and workflows with as little manual intervention as possible. In ActiveBatch, you can:

Use a wide range of event triggers for batch scheduling business and IT tasks, including email, file events, social media posts, web services events and data modifications.
Choose constraint-based and date/time scheduling, factoring in custom holidays, fiscal calendars and multiple time zones.

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Have confidence in your SLA monitoring

Meeting service-level agreements (SLAs) is non-negotiable, but it’s also one of the most stressful factors of IT management. ActiveBatch takes away the worry, engaging in continuous monitoring to prevent job failures and overruns that jeopardize your SLAs. With high availability and non-cluster failover, jobs and plans can be redirected to standby resources, and auto-remediation workflows can be initiated.

Users can also monitor workflows in real time, access in-depth reports and count on notifications to stay informed and stop wasting time fighting fires.

Boost your SLA compliance

Real Results, Real Experiences

See how ActiveBatch is making teams across many industries more efficient and confident.

Restaurant chain reduces time building and updating data workflows by 75%.

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Energy company achieves end-to-end automation of data warehousing

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The prepaid finance program supplier maintained IT resource availability despite a 50+% annual growth rate.

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All the connections you need

Access 100+ integrations for third-party applications, databases and platforms, including those by AWS, Oracle, IBM, SAP and more.

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Enterprise job scheduling FAQs

What is an enterprise job scheduler?

An enterprise job scheduler is a sophisticated software solution that automates and manages the execution of complex IT processes, tasks and workflows across an entire organization. It acts as a central control point, ensuring jobs run efficiently and on schedule, regardless of the underlying platform or whether you use Linux, UNIX, Windows or another operating system. By consolidating job scheduling and monitoring into a single interface, it streamlines operations, handles dependencies between tasks and provides alerts for any issues, freeing up IT teams for more strategic initiatives.

Learn how to choose the best enterprise job scheduling software for your company.

What is the role of a job scheduler?

The core role of a job scheduler is to automate tasks that would otherwise require manual intervention. This automation significantly reduces the burden on IT teams, freeing them from repetitive, time-consuming tasks, such as managing cron jobs, and allowing them to focus on higher-value projects. By automating these processes, job schedulers also minimize the risk of human error, which is common in manual execution, leading to more reliable and predictable operations.

Learn why it’s time to upgrade from manual workflows to an enterprise job scheduler.

What is the difference between job scheduling and workload automation?

While the terms job scheduling and workload automation are sometimes used interchangeably, there’s a key distinction. Job scheduling focuses on setting specific tasks to run at predetermined times. Workload automation, on the other hand, takes a broader approach. It manages a sequence of interconnected tasks, often spanning multiple systems, and incorporates conditional logic and dependencies to orchestrate larger business processes.

Think of job scheduling as scheduling individual appointments, while workload automation is like managing the entire doctor’s office schedule, including patient flow, resource allocation and complex procedures. Workload automation is a more comprehensive and sophisticated approach.

A robust platform like ActiveBatch encompasses both functionalities, enabling users to schedule individual jobs and create complex, dependent workflows.

Learn more about how job schedulers and workload automation help the modern workplace.