AutomationEdge vs. Fortra’s Automate

Anything where automation would be helpful, I'd recommend. If you're doing a task over and over again, Automate can likely work and do it for you. It helps to keep things running exactly the same so that when failures occur, they can easily be traced to their source.

Incentivized

• Wiki pages
• Blogs
• Articles
• Triggers
• Building crons
• Automating daily tasks

Incentivized

• There should be more tools around system stability and recovery.
• Better ways to manage resources to prevent OS crashes.
• Automate backups internally without tasks.
• System failure alerts if the machine crashes or reboots.

Incentivized

It's just very easy to use, extremely versatile, and very reliable. It's hard to find use cases where it won't work.

Incentivized

Support is very helpful and responsive, although using the tool is very user-friendly, so I hardly use the service.

Incentivized

It has similar usage cases and functions. However, many tools are stuck behind paywalls and always try to upsell you to the next version. It's very upsetting. Even if it's cheaper, whenever I try to replicate the functionality, I get that annoying message, "not available in this version." As an IT professional who needs approval for every purchase, I can't keep asking for upgrades to existing tools.

Incentivized

• Positive: Reliability on FTP jobs - really important on bank files.
• Negative - annual support a little pricey - but not unusual for this level of software.
• Positive: Does not require a dedicated administrator, especially after the jobs are created and tested. I perform other job duties and this rarely interferes with them.
• Positive - Since it is easy to learn and use it makes it easy to have a back up administrator

Incentivized