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Beyond Dagster Cloud: Drive all IT operations from one limitless platform
Unify data pipeline and business process orchestration with ActiveBatch by Redwood.
- Protect efficiency with dynamic resource allocation
- Design and automate workflows with pre-built job steps
- Connect to any data source or application via API
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Stay in control of data quality and end-to-end processes
ActiveBatch is both an accessible data orchestration platform and an effective business process automation solution.
Use flexible, event-driven scheduling to ensure your data pipeline deployments and operations remain uninterrupted no matter how large and complex your workflows become.
Choose the most robust data platform
| Feature | ActiveBatch | Prefect |
|---|---|---|
| Low-code/no-code automation While Dagster promotes modularity to simplify the developer experience, ActiveBatch’s Integrated Jobs Library makes it easy for non-technical users to design automations. | ✔ | ✖ |
| Automated resource optimization Unlike Dagster, which only offers abstraction for compute resources, ActiveBatch leverages machine learning to distribute jobs efficiently and improve success rates based on usage patterns. | ✔ | ✖ |
| Centralized visibility of all processes Dagster may be known for its detailed metadata tracking, but ActiveBatch gives you complete observability of all your data assets and end-to-end workflows in a single control plane. | ✔ | ✖ |
| Universal connectivity Envision and build your perfect data and business process management environment using the execution variables you create with ActiveBatch’s Service Library and Super REST API Adapter. | ✔ | ✖ |
| Powerfully secure job scheduling ActiveBatch is a complete workload automation solution with industry gold-standard security and compliance features, including AES 256-bit encryption, for all jobs — data-related or not. | ✔ | ✖ |
Organization-wide automation
Coordinating resources and steps to build efficient cross-departmental workflows can be time-consuming and costly. With ActiveBatch, you can consolidate your automations for multiple business domains in one easy-to-use platform.
Without custom scripting, set up processes for managing systems and networks, driving security verification and performing other key actions while maintaining your core data management workflows.
Rely on real-time monitoring and predictive notifications to preempt issues, plus inspire informed decisions with detailed analytics.
Market-leading support
Reflective of the Redwood Software standard for first-rate customer support, ActiveBatch’s Support team is here for your team 24/7, with 15-minute response times.
You’ll also get in-depth platform training, dedicated account management with regular health checks and access to a growing library of on-demand learning resources via Redwood University.
Low-risk scalability
No matter what the future holds, stay confident in your workload execution for data-specific and all other IT and business processes.
As your data and business needs become more complex, ActiveBatch helps you keep up without worry. It automatically scales your resources based on demand so you can run all jobs on time and with minimal idling.
Provisioning resources only when needed reduces costs and further drives business growth.
Pre-built and custom integrations
ActiveBatch’s extensibility is second to none. Connect to all your essential data platforms and tools, including:
- Cloud and virtualization services like Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure
- Big data solutions, including open-source frameworks such as Apache Hadoop
- System, network and data center management tools like Microsoft Orchestrator.
Use ActiveBatch’s library of integrations and extensions, or apply the power of the Service Library and full API accessibility to create your own reusable job steps.
Learn more
Read about ActiveBatch’s most notable features.
Event-driven automation
With job steps and templates, anyone on your IT team can quickly and easily spin up automation — no development expertise or custom scripting required.
Secure access and activity
Meet business and industry requirements with role-based access control, audit logs and more.
Advanced SLA monitoring
Track critical jobs and processes and create alert thresholds to notify your team of potential SLA breaches.
Cloud resource provisioning
Adapt to changing demands and optimize each resource to drive efficiency and reduce costs.
