VisualCron

Vorteile

This software has so much capability, it is difficult to start. A quick review of the available tasks should give you enough insight into the capabilities of this software. What's more, tasks like Execute Command really extend the capability of this. We use a NodeJS installation to execute javascript on the server when we can't find a particular task that solves the problem we are working on. What is better is the customer service. I usually get a response from the customer support team within an hour of the request. They are not afraid to do custom development if necessary to solve a problem. The price of this software does not reflect the amount of capability it can give to an organization. VisualCron could charge 3 times what they do for a single license.

Nachteile

There is an initial learning curve, as with any software. One thing I do not like is global conditions. In my opinion, conditions should be job specific, but that is just my opinion.

Vorteile

* The almost endless amount of tasks and variable-combination you can create in order to get the automation you need for your day-to-day production and workload.

* The INCREDIBLY speedy support-responses we receive whenever we have questions regarding the product, features or anything. Our experience with other companies when it comes to support is ~1-3 days for responses. With VisualCron it took 3 hours at the most. Their average/fastest in our experience is anywhere between 5-25 minutes. That is outstanding and impressive, and it shows that they understand the concept of time=money.

*Their affordable price-tags compared to their competitors was something that also drew us in and made us chose their product, as well as their reputation for their great customer support, which is something we value highly.

*Their extensive logging-functions where you can chose pretty much how much you want to log, how long you want it saved, how detailed you want it and more.

Nachteile

There was a bit of a steep learning curve at first as it was a little overwhelming with all the combinations of tasks and variables you can use. It took me a little while to figure out that you can simply press F1 in pretty much any of the active windows within the software and you get a whole in-depth explanation/guide of what it means, what it does, how to use it, the various functions etc.

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Warum VisualCron gewählt wurde

Zuvor genutzte Software

Vorteile

The product can do scheduling and many other tasks seamlessly. We have around 10 license.

Nachteile

Forcing to buy the Support plan even to move the license from 1 server another server is just pathetic. WHy should i by support plan only for doing this. Servers can crash anytime i should have option to deactivate it in one server and move to another server. Recently the Visualcron made it manditory that we need to purchase a support plan for this. because of this we are going to stop using this product and switch to some other product. Those who are planning to buy the product, please be careful. You have to shell extra doallrs every year even though you don't it any support.

Vorteile

VisualCron is an amazing tool that has many built in features that allows anyone to set up automated jobs, triggered by files, time events, or called by other jobs. It allows you to run any program, pass any variable, create custom variables, send e-mails, send Slack messages, access FTPs, watch directories for files arriving, changed, renamed, etc... The more you use it, the more functionality and purpose you find. Customer service is quick to reply personally to any question small or big you may have, in addition to strong documentation and a forum of users helping each other with the same service team participating on the forum as well.

Nachteile

Basic functionality is intuitive, other features have a steeper learning curve and some nuance. Cost has been steadily increasing over the years... but it is still a bargain --- but may be harder to get approval if this is your first implementation. Good thing there is a 45 day, full functionality trial!

Vorteile

This is the best tool so far , we are using VC to automate almost every IT tasks , starting from simple file copy, downloads, SSIS to complex Web Service, server management and so on.

We are 1000+ Job running every day and literally running our business.

Nachteile

None as such. I have not found anything to dislike this product.

Vorteile

Ease of configuration, Ease of DEVOPS integration, flexibility of features, Wonderful Product Support.

Nachteile

Would love to see this product support true load balanced environments for fault tolerance.

Vorteile

Everything about the tool is on the "pros" category. If you are an IT manager or run any IT operations you will find this tool fantastic.
Fast support as well, I send an email and it doesnt matter what time is in Europe or the US I get quick and accurate support

Nachteile

I recommend this to lots of my clients and the only push back we get is the cost

Vorteile

The ease on how you can build a flow and make it interactive with a lot of kind of feedbacks.
Also the speed on correcting bugs from the development team. And from time to time the addition of new and useful functions.

Nachteile

The number new bugs/problems that it has. It also has some missing functions but the team is going to cover and implement them progressively

Vorteile

Versatility; vast array of features
Great responsive support
Great value for the price

Nachteile

No cons that I can think of; like everything else there is a learning curve for some but nothing too difficult

Vorteile

Amazing functionalities. Customizable is done on demand if possible. Nothing is to difficult.

Nachteile

Steep learning curve. But once you know then you know!

Vorteile

makes all jobs viewable in one spot so that all of our users can support them without getting on the servers.

Nachteile

no real issues. the upgrade process is a bit cumbersome at this time as you have to update all clients and servers to be able to update the software

Vorteile

I would say, at first its user friendly interface and design is the most positive thing. Very easy to create, configure, edit and setup the task and after execution the task it has a good feature to monitor, verify and check the result and log. It has a nice programming interface for those who want to write script. Furthermore this software has a vast of good feature for completing a job correctly.

Nachteile

Some jobs are taken too much time to complete, but it depends on the job weight and configuration. If the home interface has too many job list then its work pretty much slower than usual.