ActiveBatch alternatives

Eliminate complexity — Replace Broadcom Automic Automation

With ActiveBatch by Redwood, you get faster onboarding, less custom scripting and self-service dashboards — the same (or greater) automation coverage in less time with fewer resources.

  • Simple, usage-based pricing: Scale your automation alongside your business.
  • Comprehensive, in-house support: Get direct access to experts, a knowledge base and hands-on training.
  • Flexible licensing: Add unlimited users and development environments.

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Truly future-proof workload automation

Leave legacy tech behind and pivot to a solution built for the demands of today and tomorrow.

First-rate security standards

Protect critical systems and data with modern security protocols, including Kerberos and Active Directory, to manage access with existing Windows accounts and groups.

Low-code GUI

Focus on the function, rather than the coding, of workflows using hundreds of production-ready job steps and an intuitive graphical development environment.

High availability

Avoid downtime — ActiveBatch gives you dynamic and manual failover options if you lose connectivity with an application, server or database.

Audit-ready features

Implement policy-driven governance with capabilities such as revision history, policy authorizations, auditing and advanced SLA management.

Event-driven triggers

Reduce slack time and improve job success rates with ActiveBatch's rich, event-driven architecture and advanced, customizable date/time scheduling options.

Templated job steps

Speed up development with a rich content library of out-of-the-box building blocks for commonly scripted actions, ready for IT and business workflows.

Boost visibility with centralized workflows

Bring together job scheduling and monitoring for all your critical IT and business systems in a single pane of glass.

ActiveBatch provides a flexible, policy-driven framework that unifies transformation efforts across functions and use cases: business process management (BPM), IT process management (ITPM), low-code assembly, script lifecycle management and more.

Eliminate bottlenecks with comprehensive audit trails, get dozens of easy-to-digest views that provide critical information in real time and manage automated processes from dozens of environments, whether cloud-based, on-premises or hybrid.

Build and automate jobs in hours, not weeks

Configure complex jobs faster using ActiveBatch’s Integrated Jobs Library, with hundreds of production-ready job steps. Drag and drop pre-built steps into workflows for everything from SAP and Oracle processes to file transfers and Kubernetes and Microsoft Azure tasks.

  • End-to-end business automation
  • No custom scripting
  • Proven, effective job steps

Keep SLAs on track — automatically

ActiveBatch’s SLA Monitor makes it easy to track and protect mission-critical workflows with visual alerts, real-time updates and automated responses when thresholds are at risk. Prevent breaches by:

  • Building a priority fence around SLA-marked job(s) to allow only SLA-sensitive jobs to proceed for execution
  • Increasing the OS priority of executing workflows when they exceed a defined percentage of expected/historical runtimes
  • Allocating additional compute resources to SLA job(s)
  • Increasing queue priority for SLA-marked job(s), so any SLA-tied workflows receive critical-path priority
  • Using dynamic, user-defined queue characteristics to identify which execution queues best fit the needs of SLA-dependent workflows

Go live faster with proven migration

Redwood Software has spent 30 years refining the workload automation (WLA) migration process, completing more than 1,000 successful transitions with minimal disruption. A team of migration experts with decades of experience and proven migration tools will confidently navigate your automation transfers while protecting your organization’s operations in three easy steps:

  1. Configuration: First, Redwood will migrate your least risky processes, enabling your teams to build trust and familiarity with the migration process, before progressing to other workflows.
  2. Data import: Proprietary Mercury conversion tools efficiently transfer your workload automations, allowing your teams to gain hands-on exposure to the process and start building their ActiveBatch expertise.
  3. Test and go-live: Ensure successful implementation by following a comprehensive go-live checklist, guaranteeing the successful launch of your new platform.
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One automation platform, limitless potential

Choose a comprehensive Automic workload automation alternative.

Data warehousing and ETL

Optimize ETL processes for real-time data flows and simplify governance across database operations, ETL tasks and big data workloads.

IT process automation

Eliminate repetitive tasks and accelerate strategic initiatives with an advanced, easy-to-use process automation solution for IT operations.

Business process automation

Increase efficiency and reduce risk by automating manual, time-consuming business workflows across departments.

Script lifecycle management

Support both business and IT end-users with versioning and control for scripts in PowerShell, Python, Java, VBScripts and shell.

Digital infrastructure automation

Maximize resource utilization and maintain flexibility to meet fast-changing business demands with infrastructure-wide automation.

Cloud infrastructure automation

Tie into cloud providers like Google Cloud, Rackspace and other SaaS/PaaS platforms with no-code API connectors for provisioning and service orchestration.

"If we were still relying on scripting and manual automation of these processes, we would have had to expand our team. ActiveBatch has allowed us to do more with the same without the need of hiring an additional developer or architect."

Truly future-proof workload automation

Leave legacy tech behind and pivot to a solution built for the demands of today and tomorrow.

WLA designed to scale

RunMyJobs by Redwood enables you to reliably and accurately run millions of jobs per day, with unlimited connections to systems and apps.

  • Predictive analytics: Apply machine learning to analyze activity and identify potential breaches based on data and/or configured SLA rules.
  • Hybrid architecture: Automate across hybrid environments (on-premises, cloud, XaaS) without dependency on legacy control or access methods such as distributed agents.
  • Full stack connectivity: Orchestrate workflows across your application, data and infrastructure layers to align with business solutions, and connect RunMyJobs to your new and bespoke systems.
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The preferred job scheduler for SAP customers

RunMyJobs is the only WLA solution that’s an SAP Endorsed App, Premium certified and included in the RISE reference architecture. Backed by 20+ years of partnership and co-innovation, RunMyJobs maximizes the value of your SAP investment — now and into the future. SAP and RunMyJobs

Workload automation and job scheduling FAQs

What is the best scheduling software?

The best scheduling software does more than just run jobs — it unifies workflows across your enterprise with built-in reliability, extensibility and ease of use. While tools like Broadcom Automic require heavy custom scripting, manual configuration and complex licensing, modern workload automation platforms like ActiveBatch by Redwood simplify orchestration with a low-code interface, hundreds of pre-built job steps, event-based triggers, centralized monitoring and self-service dashboards. You get faster time-to-value, full visibility and strong governance without sacrificing power or control.
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What is enterprise job scheduling?

Enterprise job scheduling automates the execution of IT and business processes across systems, applications IT ecosystems. Unlike basic task schedulers, enterprise-grade tools coordinate complex workflows, support high job volumes and ensure reliability through features like real-time monitoring, alerts and audit trails. They're essential to streamline operations and reduce manual effort.
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What is the difference between job scheduling and workload automation?

Job scheduling refers to automating individual tasks based on a set time or trigger. Workload automation builds on this by managing entire workflows, supporting event-based triggers and dynamically orchestrating dependencies across diverse systems and environments. Workload automation platforms are more scalable, resilient and capable of supporting real-time business operations.
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What is the future of workload automation?

The future of workload automation lies in intelligent orchestration, leveraging event-driven automation, AI insights and seamless integration across hybrid infrastructure. As enterprises modernize, workload automation has evolved into a broader category known as Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (SOAPs). These unify automation across applications, data pipelines and infrastructure, enabling real-time responsiveness, predictive analytics and governance at scale. SOAPs are becoming the strategic backbone of enterprise IT, powering digital transformation and helping organizations do more with less.
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