Fortra’s Automate vs. Worksoft Connective Automation Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Fortra’s Automate
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Fortra's Automate (formerly HelpSystems Automate) is a robotic process automation platform for desktop applications. According to the vendor, it offers the ability to automate almost any business process, and no technical expertise is required—IT and business users alike can understand the drag-and-drop interface.N/A
Worksoft
Score 7.3 out of 10
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The Worksoft Connective Automation Platform is a suite of products that automates business processes from discovery, to testing to RPA. Worksoft Analyze and Worksoft Capture support automated process discovery. Worksoft Certify allows users to create, maintain, share, and consume automated end-to-end business process tests as part of continuous testing, integration, and delivery cycles. Finally, the Connective RPA is codeless solution to reusing automated processes, moving automation into…N/A
Pricing
Fortra’s AutomateWorksoft Connective Automation Platform
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Fortra’s AutomateWorksoft
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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User Ratings
Fortra’s AutomateWorksoft Connective Automation Platform
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Usability
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User Testimonials
Fortra’s AutomateWorksoft Connective Automation Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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  • As I have worked with various ERP automation tools, Worksoft certify is a best tool in terms of End-to-End testing for SAP business processes.
  • It is easy to understand by business people
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Pros
  • Wiki pages
  • Blogs
  • Articles
  • Triggers
  • Building crons
  • Automating daily tasks
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  • Prepared 25 end-to-end scenarios that leveraged 3,000 manual test cases and this was a big achievement for the customer to save the regression time and resources.
  • It is fast to automate SAP projects
  • Improved development cycle and nowadays customers are expecting "lights off" automation. We have scheduled lights off automation mode through Worksoft Certify.
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Cons
  • 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.
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  • Worksoft Certify solution could be a bit more intuitive and user friendly
  • Test Data Management - No testing system will work with bad or interpreted data
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Usability
It's just very easy to use, extremely versatile, and very reliable. It's hard to find use cases where it won't work.
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Support Rating
Support is very helpful and responsive, although using the tool is very user-friendly, so I hardly use the service.
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Alternatives Considered
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.
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SAP TAO is only alternate tool I would suggest.
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Return on Investment
  • 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
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  • Positive: End to End business process validation and Fast Test development
  • Licenses issues should be minimized
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