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.
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Robocorp
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Robocorp is an open source, Python-based stack for simplifying automation developed and supported by the company of the same name in San Francisco, designed to enable users to build locally, operate from the cloud, and run automations anywhere.
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 …
At an older job we used to use SSIS as kind of an automation tool as well as it could also be used to connect to FTP sources, read files, etc. AutoMate is simply centrally designed to be true automation software. It is much more robust, can work with a variety of software …
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.
Robocorp is best as it's open source and it's very suitable for web automation. They need to improve on the excel function when it comes to handling huge data. In my experience, execution speed is slow when we have huge data to be manipulated.
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.
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