Open-Source Orchestration

Open-Source vs. Closed-Source

When an application, management tool, or other solution is open-source, it means the code exists in the public domain, allowing anyone to access and edit the source code of the application. Users of open-source software can benefit from lower costs and can expect bugs to be quickly fixed because anyone improve the code.

Because open-source tools often lack full-time employees, updates can be infrequent, and capabilities and features can be limited. Plus, whereas a closed-source orchestration tool is backed by a dedicated team of professionals and support personnel, finding support for open-source software use cases is usually limited to Google searches and online message boards.

Closed-source software means that a person or institution owns the source code and therefore has a dedicated team to develop new features, test new releases, and provide professional support to users.

ActiveBatch Workload Automation

ActiveBatch is a workload automation and job scheduling management system that enables IT teams to automate and orchestrate cross-platform processes, data center operations, DevOps initiatives, and more. ActiveBatch is script language agnostic and supports everything from Python to Ruby.

ActiveBatch also supports connecting to API endpoints and can perform command line functions. That means anything you might have already downloaded from GitHub, including open source runbook or orchestration platforms, can be consolidated into ActiveBatch if it can’t be outright replaced.

ActiveBatch readily integrates with virtually every solution and technology on the market, including:

All major operating systems, including Windows, Linux, UNIX, and IBM iSeries AS/400

Other job schedulers, including cron jobs and Windows Task Scheduler

Applications from IBM, Microsoft, SAP, VMware, and Amazon, Apache Hadoop, and more

Cloud platforms for seamless cloud orchestration (public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud) and virtual machines

Multiple back-end databases like SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Oracle DBs

ActiveBatch's powerful automation and IT orchestration capabilities:

Provide data in real-time

Protect existing script investments through lifecycle management capabilities

Manage the provisioning of on-premise and cloud infrastructure resources

Use load balancing to reduce wait times

Execute database procedures and integrate with data warehousing and ETL platforms

Frequently Asked Questions

⤷ What is an orchestration engine?

An orchestration engine is a platform that enables IT to coordinate and manage data, processes, applications across disparate IT systems. Orchestration engines are designed to integrate a wide range of technologies using a mix of programmatic integrations and low-code API accessibility. Explore ActiveBatch’s orchestration capabilities.

⤷ What can ActiveBatch integrate with?

ActiveBatch can integrate virtually any digital technology. ActiveBatch provides dozens of direct integrations with major IT vendors including Amazon, Microsoft, SAP, and Informatica, plus prebuilt, universal integrations for common IT actions. ActiveBatch users can load and execute APIs, and seamlessly assemble those APIs into resilient, end-to-end workflows. Explore ActiveBatch’s integration capabilities.

⤷ Can ActiveBatch support multiple dependencies?

Yes. ActiveBatch Jobs can support almost any number of dependencies including constraints, conditional logic, and variables. Dependencies can be passed to other jobs and workflows. Explore ActiveBatch’s job scheduling capabilities.

⤷ What databases does ActiveBatch connect to?

ActiveBatch’s back-end database supports Windows SQL Server, Azure SQL Server, and Oracle databases for storing system and user-created objects and instances. ActiveBatch can integrate and automate almost any database using direct integrations, scripts, or low-code API accessibility. ActiveBatch offers additional integrations with IBM, Informatica, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, Hadoop Ecosystem, and Hadoop subsets. Explore ActiveBatch’s integrations and capabilities.