Upgrade from Prefect Cloud to advanced workload automation
Orchestrate limitless use cases beyond data pipelines when you move to ActiveBatch by Redwood.
Simplify workflow orchestration with pre-built job steps
Connect to any data source or application via API
Automate resource provisioning to minimize costs
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Streamline your data flows and business processes
ActiveBatch is a workload automation platform that manages data automation tasks and offers greater flexibility for modern enterprises compared to Prefect. With event-driven scheduling, you gain enhanced control over dependencies and complex workflows.
Centralized monitoring provides real-time insights into job performance across your organization, ensuring efficient and predictable operations.
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Low-code/no-code automation While Prefect offers customizable workflow configurations, ActiveBatch provides pre-built job steps and allows you to create your own reusable components for simple automation design.
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Sophisticated job scheduling Unlike Prefect, which only offers cron, interval and RRule scheduling, ActiveBatch supports event- and calendar-based settings to trigger actions and workflows.
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Automated resource optimization Rather than relying on manual adjustments, ActiveBatch leverages machine learning to distribute jobs efficiently and improve success rates based on usage patterns.
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Broad connectivity Integrate your essential tools across any environment, with any mix of legacy and modern systems, to seamlessly drive end-to-end processes — not just data workflows.
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Detailed auditing and compliance ActiveBatch offers robust compliance tracking and security features, including AES 256-bit encryption, to support large enterprises that must adhere to strict regulatory requirements.
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Cross-functional automation
Coordinating resources and steps to build efficient workflows that work for every department can be time-consuming and costly. With ActiveBatch, you can consolidate your automations for multiple business functions in one easy-to-use platform.
Without custom scripting, set up processes for managing ETL processes, driving security verification and more 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.
Round-the-clock 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.
“It’s about scalability, and ActiveBatch provides that. Could I go and write scripts for everything we want to do? Yes, but it would take forever, and centrally managing the workflows would be nearly impossible. ActiveBatch provides us with that single point of control.”
No matter what the future holds, stay confident in your workload reliability.
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.
Managing all your processes, data-specific or otherwise, from one place gives you ultimate control and boosts efficiency.
Endless integration options
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.
