ActiveBatch vs other solutions

Cost-friendly alternative to Broadcom AutoSys

ActiveBatch by Redwood is a powerful workload automation solution offering innovative intelligence features that optimize and dynamically scale resources.

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Demand more from your workload automation

Rise to any business challenge with ActiveBatch’s modern feature set.

Straightforward data warehousing and ETL

Streamline data warehouse operations and processes while improving your data quality and consistency. Cleanse, validate and improve data accuracy in workflows.

Consistent auditing and compliance

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

User-friendly low-code design

Use a drag-and-drop GUI to easily develop and deploy new end-to-end workflows and get full command-line support for ad-hoc purposes — via REST API, PowerShell Module, COM or legacy web services methods.

Comprehensive reporting and monitoring

Maintain control with SLA monitoring, customizable alerting and reporting, designed to prevent job failures and delays. Get multiple views, including forecasting and Gantt charts.

Automated DevOps facilitation

Enable quicker app release cycles by consolidating your scheduling and IT orchestration in one solution with object locking, complete audit trails, built-in change management and more.

Democratized workflow creation

Reduce IT’s workload and enable business users to trigger and monitor jobs and workflows via the Self-Service Portal, to which your organization’s security protocols apply.

Easy migration and dedicated support

A proven, low-disruption approach and a vendor 100% invested in your success. 24/7 availability from a dedicated in-house team.

Flexibility and reliability

Unlimited automation scalability and extensibility. Fully managed with 99.95% uptime.

  • Automate across hybrid cloud environments

    A comprehensive workload automation (WLA) and job scheduling platform, ActiveBatch enables IT teams to automate and coordinate cross-platform processes or job chains.

    Achieve efficient IT and business process automation via seamless integration across your entire environment — multi-cloud, hybrid cloud or on-premises.

  • Orchestrate from a single pane of glass

    Bring together job scheduling and monitoring and reduce IT complexity with a central automation hub for business-critical systems and applications.

    Connect ERP, ETL, supply chain management, work order management, project management and more.

  • Break free from the limits of time

    Build smooth end-to-end automated processes and increase job success rates with ActiveBatch's robust event-driven architecture and advanced date/time scheduling.

    • Trigger jobs based on various external conditions with flexible scheduling options
    • Use a universal job type for end-to-end orchestration on any server, service or application
    • Apply intelligent load balancing to reduce slack time and bottlenecks
    • Perform and manage enterprise file transfers via FTP, SFTP (SSH) or FTPS (TLS)
    • Execute database procedures and integrate with ETL and data warehousing applications
    • Stay up and running with automatic failover to standby schedulers in the event of a production environment failure

  • Let your IT team focus on innovation

    Automate in half the time with ActiveBatch’s Job Steps Library. Choose from hundreds of production-ready job steps: out-of-the-box building blocks for commonly scripted actions and functions.

    Drop them into your IT and business workflows in an intuitive GUI.

"ActiveBatch is reliable and accessible … we can give anyone in the business the ability to trigger and monitor their own jobs. Giving this power to the business allows the IT department to focus more time on other business needs."

Looking for SaaS? Leading enterprises choose RunMyJobs by Redwood

Redwood also offers a workload automation solution for enterprises in need of the most robust capabilities. The #1 job scheduler for SAP customers, RunMyJobs helps you keep pace with evolving demands.

Striking performance in SOAP capabilities

Redwood ranked first in three and tied for a fourth out of five Use Cases in the 2024 Gartner Critical Capabilities for SOAP report, which Redwood believes is a strong demonstration of its leadership in:

Data orchestration

Automate data pipeline scheduling, execution and monitoring to deliver reliable and timely end-to-end data pipeline operations that meet your business objectives.

IT workload automation

Automate any IT workload from end to end. A workload automation solution for your mission-critical business outcomes. RunMyJobs is the first SaaS composable platform built for ERP.

Citizen automation

Use a self-service automation portal to empower your users to independently initiate predefined processes, customize parameters and execute task sequences with enhanced autonomy, flexibility and speed.

IT workflow orchestration

Easily orchestrate end-to- end workflows with an event-driven automation platform that gives your team visibility into every business process with real-time monitoring from a single pane of glass.

DevOps automation

Seamlessly integrate with various continuous integration and delivery tools and real-time monitoring and notifications of DevOps workflows.

RunMyJobs is a unified, cloud-native SOAP that enables seamless connection to all applications, processes and data

Despite Automic’s presence in the 2024 Magic Quadrant™ for SOAPs report, Broadcom does little to innovate with Automic or AutoSys, providing product updates only every six months or so.

Workload automation FAQs

Is AutoSys outdated?

AutoSys is still widely used, but many IT teams consider it outdated compared to modern workload automation tools. Originally built for on-premises environments, it requires significant manual scripting and has limited support for hybrid cloud, real-time orchestration and self-service capabilities. As enterprise needs shift toward scalable, API-driven platforms that support containerized workloads and dynamic provisioning, AutoSys may not meet current demands without extensive customization.

Broadcom’s development pace and support model have also led organizations to explore AutoSys alternatives with broader cross-platform support, improved user interfaces and lower operational overhead. Many of these tools offer native integrations for AWS, Azure, SAP and VMware, along with low-code options for building and managing jobs. These key features help you streamline complex workflows, align with DevOps practices and support automation use cases across diverse IT environments.

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What is the difference between AutoSys and ActiveBatch?

AutoSys is a job scheduling tool from Broadcom that primarily supports on-premises environments with batch processing and scripting. Its architecture often relies on manual configurations and lacks out-of-the-box integrations for modern platforms like AWS, Azure and SaaS tools. AutoSys requires more effort to scale across hybrid cloud environments and doesn’t provide low-code options for job creation, making it more complex to adapt to dynamic IT operations or DevOps pipelines.

ActiveBatch by Redwood, on the other hand, is a workload automation platform with broader cross-platform compatibility and support for drag-and-drop workflow design. It includes built-in connectors for ERP systems, file transfers and ETL tools across multi-cloud and on-premises environments. ActiveBatch emphasizes self-service, real-time orchestration and end-to-end process automation with dashboards and APIs that simplify provisioning, SLA management and job execution across diverse operating systems like Linux, Microsoft and Unix.

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What is workload automation software?

Workload automation software is used to schedule, trigger and manage a wide range of IT tasks across systems, applications and environments. It replaces manual scripting with centralized control over job scheduling, workflows and dependencies, helping teams coordinate complex processes across cloud, on-premises and hybrid infrastructures. These tools often include support for file transfers, batch processes, real-time job status alerts and SLA tracking.

Modern platforms offer low-code or no-code user interfaces, making it easier to connect business applications, data pipelines and ERP systems without deep scripting knowledge. With built-in integrations for tools like SAP, Oracle and VMware, workload automation solutions help optimize process automation, reduce delays and support orchestration across cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure. They’re designed to support scalability, cross-platform functionality and API-based automation for evolving IT environments.

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