Fortra’s Automate vs. Foxtrot RPA (discontinued)

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

Nintex is well-suited for any application that does not have record import features.

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

Incentivized

• Mass updating of account records.
• Works well scraping data from web sites.
• Can update any type of electronic record/application.

• 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 could use better handling of emulator response times and states. For example, oftentimes the tool moves faster than the emulator can perform tasks and the whole process can crash, forcing the user to start over.
• It could use a drag and drop workflow interface, which might make it easier to create complex scripts.

Incentivized

Foxtrot is the best data automation software on the market. Especially for the price and cost savings. I have been able to do so much data integrity clean up over the years to keep our system clean.

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

Foxtrot does not have nearly as much in terms of functionality and workflow tools. It is primarily meant for automating and creating scripts that help with mainframe-based maintenance and migration tasks. In addition, it is very efficient in simulating the actions of an individual for daily and manual tasks. We selected Foxtrot because it was the tool that was recommended by the main vendor we needed to interface with, and industry-wide it was the main tool being used by other financial institutions with similar platforms to perform the tasks that we bought the platform to perform.

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

• As previously mentioned, Foxtrot has allowed us to become infinitely more efficient in handling mass maintenance scenarios within the organization. It has allowed us to go from development to deployment often within a couple of days including testing.
• It has further allowed for the remote automation of manual tasks performed on a daily basis and freed up that time so that the resources can be more efficient within their functions and get more things done.
• The tool has allowed for the creation of several template scripts that can be utilized anytime for similar situations, which has made us even more efficient in that the development of the script only happens one time and provides for infinite uses without any additional overhead.

Incentivized