# ActiveBatch Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is ActiveBatch the right Workflow Management solution for you? Explore 56 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/16100/ActiveBatch-Workload-Automation/reviews --- ActiveBatch 4.7 (56) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of ActiveBatch Ease of use 4.6 Customer Service 4.5 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews gk girish k Software Test EngineerComputer Software, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “Active Batch highly secured and end to end Encrypted, It Prevents un authorised access, It can perform quick actions on Problem workflows, It Is a Job Scheduler and Batch Scheduling too.“ May 4, 2023 JV Jyothi V Sr. Catalog Specialist IILogistics and Supply Chain, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “The only downside is cost for annual license upgrade is higher, apart from that it provides solution to all the manual tasks.“ August 11, 2023 Mahesh R Sr. System EngineerLogistics and Supply Chain, 501 - 1,000 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “As a logistics company, activebatch is very useful in planning your daily activities, providing the purchase order for raw materials, track the activities from supplier side, easily generate the reports as required and plan for customer orderOther good feature are good display, has enormous options to work, under interface is excellent“ May 5, 2023 sk sravan k ConsultantInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “Some times we find difficulty to download the report as per needed format.“ April 24, 2023 DR Devansh R AnalystInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “ActiveBatch is a user-friendly Automation tool that has a functionality of automatic scheduling of messages from single source to multiple targets and vice-versa.“ April 18, 2023 Aravind k Application development associate Information Services, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “Also getting other users to manage their jobs was getting difficult. “ April 18, 2023 VS Venkatesh S Quality Engineering AnalystInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “Businesses may monitor operations in real-time with the help of the software's sophisticated scheduling and monitoring functions, which also make it easy to find and fix any problems that may develop.“ April 18, 2023 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 56 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Keerthi R. Devops Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Active Batch - New best Automation Tool in market!" April 9, 2023 5.0 Basically, it helps me to automate scheduling, monitor all my servers, and look after logs and alerts!This has been very time-saving and because of this now I can focus on larger targets! Pros Many services, Noticeably some are-Workload ProcessingScalabilityIntelligent AutomationAdministration ConsoleWorkflow Management Cons The only thing I least like is pricing and apart from that this is the best tool. Switched from [ServiceNow](https://www.capterra.com/p/254088/ServiceNow/)[AWS for Data](https://www.capterra.com/p/251481/AWS-Cloud-Databases/) Because the above tools perform only particular functions and Active Batch is a combination of everything so, in turn, helps me to perform all the functions at once. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Application development associate Information Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Overall Best Tool for all sort or monitoring and scheduling task tool !!" April 18, 2023 4.0 Very good user interface and best event-based automation for real time accurate data. Good Customization for all alerts. Due to version change, old jobs running had few issues' apart form that, all seems good. Pros The good features of Active batch is real time processes and accurate data capturing on tool. Very easy to use , good user interface, Not much pre-requisite needed, very handy. Very good user interface and best event-based automation for real time accurate data. Good Customization for all alerts. Due to version change, old jobs running had few issues' apart form that, all seems good. Cons The data cannot be easily exported out easily to a excel format making it a bit difficult to extract data. Also getting other users to manage their jobs was getting difficult. Alternatives considered [Amazon S3](https://www.capterra.com/p/174285/Amazon-S3/)[Google Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/268690/Google-Cloud-Platform/) Reason for choosing ActiveBatch Good tool for startup, Cost friendly, Very easy to get started, quite less effort required initially for usage of tool. The easy user interface helps boost the quality of experience in using the tool. Review Source bC bhasker C. Workload automation administrator Financial Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Active Batch to orchestrate your workload" December 12, 2019 3.0 The product is well thought, well priced, offering lot of features, I can understand with such a lot of features it is hard to introduce a change without breaking other functionalities, but if they can tighten their testing before releasing it covering all scenarios, that will be great. Pros lots of features..flexibility on how to orchestrate your workload. Cons sometimes, the behaviors are unpredictable. not a major blow up so far. but it can get on your nerves as why certain things work the way it works and why would it not work for other cases given both are similar situations. Reason for choosing ActiveBatch Each of the software are scored against the following categories. The scores range from 1 to 10 with 10 being most favorable and 1 being least favorable. Total score High total score is favorable. Software \\ Categories ease of use licensing cost maintainability Learning curve functionality Support Total score BMC - Control-M 9 4 8 9 8 8 46 Advanced Systems - Acive batch 7 7 7 6 9.5 8 44.5 Helps Systems - JAMS Scheduler 4 9 7 8 5 6 39 Red hat Ansible ( IBM ) 2 5 5 4 2 4 22 Review Source yC yogesh C. Senior software engineer Financial Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "ActiveBatch is the ideal solution if you want quick and complete automation." April 22, 2023 5.0 we at Justwicks used active batch for making our product more reliable, since we started using it our ROI nearly increased to 80% within short span of time, and reliability or our product is also increased to a great extent Pros In our organisation we have implemented activebatch into our end to end automation, we have utilized the real time analytics and alerting feature a lot which gave us more insights ahead and able to fix the issue before the clients report it. Cons The documentation and initial setup was bit fuzzy it could be been more details and few more video tutorials would have reduced our time a lot. Reason for choosing ActiveBatch Since i have previously worked with activebatch software in my previous organsiation, it was my first goto software so we choose activebatch. Switched from [Postman](https://www.capterra.com/p/188497/Postman/) All the different tools we used were jumbled and required lot of resource to maintain them, but using active batch a single resource can handle our end to end automatin. Review Source Arjuna S. Cloud Security Engineer Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Capterra: The Leaders in establishing relationship between the buyers and the IT industry" May 2, 2023 5.0 My overall experience with active batch to date is very good and it provides smooth and it is user-friendly.Any user who uses this for the first will be able to understand it very easily without any difficulties. Pros it's an automation tool that helps the administrator to schedule, monitor and view the logs without or with very less manual intervention. Cons The cost is the only factor that i would like to highlight. However, it is worth it. Alternatives considered [ServiceNow Customer Service Management](https://www.capterra.com/p/225960/ServiceNow-Customer-Service-Management/) Reason for choosing ActiveBatch Obviously, the cost factor and the user-friendliness. Review Source Praveen N. QA engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "The tool that enhances automation workflows to reach their peak level is ActiveBatch." August 8, 2023 5.0 As per my experience this tool became one of best partner in my office, this made my work in easier by alerting and by self re-run capabilities. because of this robust automation workflow automation this made our team proud in the organization by deploying our project on time. Pros ActiveBatch tool has been incredibly beneficial in elevating my testing efficiency to its highest level, thanks to its strong monitoring and scheduling features and this automatically re-runs failed tasks, this provides timely completion alerts, and also suits for various project types, saving me from the burden of learning new tools for the different assigned projects. Cons Barely touchable for start-up companies. Review Source Gowtham S. Process Engineer Aviation & Aerospace Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best software worked ever" April 29, 2023 4.0 Overall it was very good working in this software, one of the best software i have worked ever Pros What i liked the most is that its graphic design, transfer many confidential files through FPP server, which has data theft proof protection, authentication for every process carried out and the most important thing is handling production, inventory, materials, alert notification for any expiry materials to be used as earliest and work order planning and closing details Cons I would like to get some customization where we ourself can customize some of the functions as perour requirements and use it Review Source Khoa N. Senior Application Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Automating manual, repetitive tasks have never been easier!" March 8, 2023 5.0 Active Batch handles all of our nightly batch jobs including but not limited to file transfers between SFTP sites, SSRS report generation, file encryption/decryption and much more. We have several use cases for using Active Batch but one of the main drivers was having a solution to house all of our Windows Task Scheduler jobs, while task scheduler is great, it was a pain to manage and support. With Active Batch, we now have a single solution where we can see which jobs are running, how long they are running for, if they failed, and when they would run next, etc. We currently have about 1000 jobs in different Active Batch environments. Pros ActiveBatch treats all items as objects; this allows for object reuse when building jobs and also reduces the overhead of maintaining and supporting multiple objects. Cons Having to upgrade each of the execution agents, there needs to be a process where the agents are automatically updated when there is a new version available. Review Source Mahesh R. Sr. System Engineer Logistics and Supply Chain Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Very impressive and Best software worked on" May 5, 2023 5.0 Overall experience working in this software felt life changing tool which almost do everything you required for any organization you work (IT, manufacturing, logistics etc) This tool has made our life so easy that, we can easily look after inventory stock and take decisions for future procurements and under customer orders and plan accordinglyAs an IT it became so easy to procure electronics items required by having approved supplier list and tracking it Pros As a logistics company, activebatch is very useful in planning your daily activities, providing the purchase order for raw materials, track the activities from supplier side, easily generate the reports as required and plan for customer orderOther good feature are good display, has enormous options to work, under interface is excellent Cons The only cons i felt in this software is that, it should been a bit user friendly with detailed user manual how exactly different functions works, also by having a authorization for customization options to tweak the software as per our requirements Review Source Tiffany E. Writer Writing and Editing Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "My experience with ActiveBatch" July 12, 2021 5.0 This application is a amazing force in it a own right. It easily runs processing jobs and rea..y helps us to see trends in our overall performance . Hands down such an amazing software ,and I'm so happy to be a user ! Pros The automation that this tool provides is amazing you almost have no need to add any members ,our team has increased triple in size. Its amazing ,its so flexible without having to rely on much Cons Powershell has been a little bit of a problem, so its hard to get people to manage their own things. There is small problems with scheduling and job dependency issues. Review Source AR Anthony R. Programmer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "All the tools you need under one roof" May 31, 2019 5.0 Biggest problems solved are scheduling and job dependency issues. ActiveBatch allows you to make sure jobs run in the order you need them to. Building a workflow on job step dependency where on job kicks off the next as expected. Or utilizing constraints to not run a job multiple times a day if it has already run. It also has a great feedback alert system. to send emails, text messages, etc to let you know when a job has succeeded or failed. New apps allow you to manage jobs from your phone. Pros It has tons of features, and options to integrate it's automation into many third party platforms for backups, email, sharepoint, tracking systems. The options for coding automation in your comfort zone is also great. Whether you script in ksh, bsh, cmd, bat, powershell, js, or vb; you can take existing workflows and start scheduling them into ActiveBatch seamlessly. Or do as I do; and integrate all those skills into a jobs library and create a custom ActiveBatch workflow. Cons Some of those third party integration point cost extra. Probably expected. There is some challenges with security tokens when migrating to new systems. Review Source SN Shraddha N. Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Efficient, Powerful and Scalable Workload Automation Solution " September 4, 2023 5.0 ActiveBatch Workload Automation has been of great asset to our organization. It has made the workflow management very easy. It has improved overall efficiency and reduced human errors. It's a complete automation solution that is user- friendly, reliable and easily adaptable. The customer support team is responsive and outstanding. They are always ready to assist with any questions or issues. The platform has improved the productivity and overall efficiency. Pros ActiveBatch has transformed the way we manage our organization's workflows and processes. It is robust automation platform and has made the work much more easier and efficient. It's user-friendly interface is what makes it standout. The platform does not require in-depth technical knowledge . This is a great choice for those who need to automate a wide range of tasks. The adaptability and flexibility it offers is remarkable. It can easily take up any tasks. It can be data backups, file transfers or it can be database maintenance , ActiveBatch always gives it's best. Cons Enhancing the analytics and reporting features of the software could provide in-depth knowledge of job processes and their performance. Debugging complex workflows can be challenging sometimes. Enhancing or improving the debugging tools would benefit the users. Review Source DS Deepthi S. Project Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Streamline Your Workflow with Active Batch Automation" April 10, 2023 5.0 ActiveBatch user-friendly interface, extensive documentation, and support resources, which make it easier for them to design, visualize, and manage workflows in a centralized and streamlined manner. Its flexibility, versatility, and ease of use make it a popular choice among enterprises and businesses looking to automate their workflows and streamline their operations. Pros It is simpler to monitor and improve automation processes because to Active Batch intuitive and user-friendly interface, which enables users to design, view, and manage workflows in a centralised and streamlined manner. The flexibility and adaptability of ActiveBatch automation in automating complicated procedures across many platforms and systems Cons ActiveBatch offers a wide range of features and customization options, it can take some time for users to get familiar with all the capabilities of the platform and the best practices for designing and executing workflows. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer senior analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "A-Z of automation process management" May 11, 2023 5.0 Pros ActiveBatch Workload Automation is a user friendly and easy to use tool with unified platform to integrate the entire the process at one go. The features such as pre defined job steps helps save time and effort required to identify and analyze the requirements and accordingly prepare a script. The job scheduler is another wow feature in the tool which helps allocate and monitor the tasks. Overall the tool helps the team to run the process in agile mode with all the teammates working at a single place. Cons ActiveBatch can provide installation support or quick installation video guide to help in easier installation Review Source AD April D. Senior Systems Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "ActiveBatch is scalable and has the flexibility we needed" December 12, 2019 5.0 We use ActiveBatch for everything from simple file movement to system administration. Thanks to the automation this tool provides, though our company has quadrupled in size, our team has not had to add any members. Pros I love that in addition to its many built-in functions, it can execute scripted steps in any language using a simple XML config file. Cons Some advanced features such as failover have external dependencies, and can't auto-recover in all circumstances. Review Source BB Brent B. Senior Solution Architect Entertainment Used the software for: 2+ years ### "ActiveBatch Orchestration Software Works Well" May 31, 2019 5.0 Pros It is easy to use and they are constantly innovating and adding new features. The scheduling functionality is reliable and consistent. It makes it easy to automate software. Cons Customer support could be better. This reflects them being a pretty small shop without a lot of resources to put into support. Review Source Shalini B. software engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "versatile automation system." September 2, 2023 5.0 Pros Its scripting versatility and automation capabilities such as file event automation. Cons There is a wealth of information and instructions available on the internet. Everything is in a cumbersome PDF or hidden behind their unfriendly website. Review Source Rowan N. Senior Business Intelligence Developer Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Rich features with access to variables in stream and API config allows us to replace other ETL tools" June 21, 2018 4.0 Cuts down time spent creating custom solutions with other tools using critical features right in the tool (API, file trigger, constraints) Pros Rich features and flexibility Access to variables in stream, can replace other ETL tools API config is straightforward File triggers work well Constraints and SQL based variables Decent documentation Cons Some bugs in UI Some features in UI are confusing and documentation doesn't always help Review Source SS Shivjit S. Developer Investment Banking Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Automation with full control" May 31, 2019 5.0 Pros Active Batch is a beast when it comes to running any type of script or package, with varying parameters and varying environments. It has advanced scheduling capabilities and has support for many different runtime frameworks/environments. Cons It can be a bit complex to understand once you are working under the layers. Some UI and flow functionality can be improved. Review Source TM Tejaaswini M. Software Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "ActiveBatch Workload make your Automation job simple and effortless." April 22, 2023 4.0 One of the best Automation tool i have used and this helped to reduce my manual work and improved my efficiency and productivity at work this is 9/10 and i prefer every organisations to make use of this tool and reduce their manual efforts. Pros As a QA engineer monitoring logs in production environment was on of the tedious task. This was time consuming and required lots of manual efforts, but using “ActiveBatch Workload” it minimised the downtime and maximised the productivity. Cons Setting-up the software was hard this could be made still more easier.At times the email alerts won’t work properly there should be a proper documentation for the email workflow.The new version looks good but with lots of lag and often crashes unlike the older versions. Exporting the documents in jpg format was bit difficult.Customer Service could be better. Review Source TH Tyson H. Senior Software Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Top Notch Automation Capability" June 18, 2019 4.0 Overall, ActiveBatch is a very solid and capable package that gives you almost everything you could ever want in automation. Pros ActiveBatch is the backbone of our automation operations. We use it to automate a wide variety of tasks from running our own custom data processing software to retrieving FTP to monitoring server status. \* The scheduler has amazing variety and flexibility for automating tasks: jobs within plans, variables that change parameters dynamically, constraints on other tasks, triggers for other tasks. \* Monitoring status of jobs and plans can be done in a variety of ways, through a UI, through email or other communication, even automated reporting. Almost however you want to look at status, ActiveBatch has you covered. \* Great support for integration with other technologies and services. They have a number of packages for integration with third party systems. You can fairly easily integrate with command line tools, custom libraries or web APIs to create custom links. We've even used Powershell to automate ActiveBatch itself. \* Their tech support has always been quick to respond and genuinely willing to dig deep to help solve the problem. Cons Only a couple cons come to mind. \* With increased flexibility and capability come increased complexity. It's easy to get a couple jobs going, but there is a learning curve to use the full capability. There is no free training (like self-guided course), though perhaps that's changed since the last time I looked, and the documentation is difficult to wade through. \* We do see quirky behavior indicative of small bugs that will manifest themselves after weeks of operation. Although I would consider it stable, every now and again something strange happens (weeks between occurrences) and it's time to restart the service. It's not the same thing every time and support has always helped us navigate unexpected behavior. Review Source gK girish K. Software Test Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Active Batch is inclining!!" May 4, 2023 4.0 Its good, Cost effective, Its Pro active Support Pros Active Batch highly secured and end to end Encrypted, It Prevents un authorised access, It can perform quick actions on Problem workflows, It Is a Job Scheduler and Batch Scheduling too. Cons It Should be carry through third party vendors, More Social Marketing is Required to Explore and enhance the Application Review Source LP Lourens P. DEVOPS Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "My experiences over the years in ActiveBatch" June 24, 2019 4.0 We have used ActiveBatch for the last 5 years and are we happy. So happy that we have moved all our Automation and scheduling to ActiveBatch and that shows the trust few have in the product Pros Previously we have used a few scheduling systems but in recent years we have moved all our automation and scheduling to ActiveBatch. Which shows the confidence we have in the product The central location of all our workflows and an operation to view running, failed and successful jobs make ActiveBatch an outstanding product. The execute agent and job scheduler is very stable. ActiveBatch scheduler is brilliant and the use of custom dates and calendars makes scheduling powerful. The PowerShell script option in AB makes scheduling of PowerShell scripts easy. Reuse and reference of scripts in workflows make development quicker. The use of variables on Jobs, schedulers, folders, triggers and task gives us a lot of variety and flexibility. The support team is very good and always eager to help. The only issues we have is the difference in time zones in response from the support team due to that. But it has imporved over the last few months. Cons What I found over the years is when a new version of AB has been released, jobs that were working in the previous release not working in the new version. The new GUI of v12 looks good but is a lot slower and crashes more often than the previous version. To do a simple task and using the internal steps like reading a from DB, loop through the records, setting values to a condition can be a confusing thing. Lately, we have been switching all our jobs that were using job steps to PowerShell scripts because we have more control and options in Powershell. Review Source HV Haripriya V. DevOps Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The right software solution for your business" May 14, 2023 5.0 Pros Its an open-source platform to review about choosing a software and we have access to read the reviews of all customers just to plan before getting into it.It helps a lot in my day to day activities like automation of my workloads.Its user-friendly (easy-to-use) UI so any non IT person can easily get hands-on on this software.Its compatible with different organizations and Active Batch can easily integrate with other applications which makes it easy to access and automates all workloads in different platforms.Customer support team is excellent which makes us resolve our queries in short span of time Cons Cost is something which is a con if its for small organizations.Needs bit more detailed documentation and improvement in the UI part to make it more user-friendly.Comparing to other software, the reporting capabilities are bit less which should be improved better with IT experts. Review Source PC Philip C. Web Developer Consumer Goods Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Very robust platform for workflow managed and scheduled jobs" May 30, 2023 4.0 Very useful but sometimes-tough-to-navigate tool. Most users will not ever utilize it to its full potential since there are so many options and areas of configuration. There is a web version and an installed application version, which have most if not all of the same features. Pros The ability to manage workflows is intuitive once you know how things work. Being able to hit external endpoints or platforms (e.g. web API, Azure cloud functions, etc) is very handy and being able to control the timing is important for doing things during off-hours. Cons The learning curve is fairly intense, as there are many types of objects that do different things. I haven't found any great video tutorial series that cover the basics, but maybe there are some trainings available directly from AB. For our team it was imperative that we had some knowledge transfer from more senior members who know their way around the platform. Review Source Similar Products Featured