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Fortra

Fortra's Automate

Composite Score

8.6 /10

CX Score

8.6 /10

145 Reviews Write a Review

What is Fortra's Automate?

Boost your productivity with cost-effective, easy-to-use automation software that transforms virtually any business or IT process and brings together the applications that keep your business running. Automate offers scalable automation capabilities whether you need an RPA solution for one department or an enterprise-wide Center of Excellence (CoE) initiative—Automate is built for the needs of any organization.

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Awards & Recognition

Fortra's Automate won the following awards in the Robotic Process Automation - Enterprise category

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6 Top Rated Capabilities

7 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2024

4 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

2023

10 Top Rated Capabilities

10 Top Rated Features

2022

Fortra's Automate Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

87 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

96 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+82 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Fortra's Automate?

4% Negative

10% Neutral

86% Positive

Pros

Respectful
Enables Productivity
Performance Enhancing
Reliable

Feature Ratings

Average 81

Code-Free Programming

Role-Based Access

Unsupervised Launch

Distributed Work

Central Deployment

Concurrent Work

Real-Time Debugging

Optical Character Recognition

User Libraries

Action Logging

Exception Handling

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 81

Business Value Created

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Usability and Intuitiveness

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Fortra's Automate Screenshots

Fortra's Automate Downloads

[Case Study] Automate Oregon School Association

[Case Study] Automate Carter Bank and Trust

RPA Buyers Guide (English)

What is Robotic Process Automation?

Automate Use Case Guide

Automation Center of Excellence Handbook

Fortra's Automate Videos

Fortra's Automate Reviews

Rodney S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Transportation
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2022

Expensive, but easy to use and good ROI

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Fortra's Automate from other similar products?

Rapid, robotic process automation with lots of useful functionality and easy-to-use drag-and-drop GUI.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It's easy to use, has lots of practical functionality to quickly create jobs to handle day-to-day mundane tasks. I like to use it to control other programs and website screenscraping to download data. Also, it's great for file drops and processing.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It's expensive. Maintenance and support annual upgrades are expensive too.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Try it out. See if it will meet your needs and is worth the price to pay vs. if able to develop custom or via other means and compare value. Wish there were options to buy a basic package and then pay per add-on service as needed. We probably don't use 70% of the functionality in the product. Also if there was an option of pay per service to cut down on cost for annual maintenance would be nice too.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Larry C.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Finance
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2022

They keep adding product features and enhancing a

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Fortra's Automate from other similar products?

Has cut down on labor costs of repetitive tasks and save us time and money

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

you will get alerts when functions fail so you can stay on top of tasks

What do you dislike most about this product?

so far it has meet all are needs

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

they need to try it out and see the time and labor you save

Pros

Enables Productivity
Saves Time
Acts with Integrity
Helps Innovate

Maria T.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2022

An understandable robotic assistance system

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Fortra's Automate from other similar products?

What I have noticed with this tool is that it does not require being an expert to configure it, the tool is easy to implement because it is quite simple compared to others and the benefits of implementing it are noticeable almost from the first moment, it is safe and has reports details if required

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The robots of this tool understand the user interface helping the actions to be more precise and to be carried out in less time, in addition, as it performs the so-called repetitive tasks, it provides more time to dedicate to other activities without neglecting the others, it is safe above all because works directly with professional data

What do you dislike most about this product?

I have had no problems and I consider it to be quite functional

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

My recommendation goes to those new users in this type of system, because it does not require extensive or extremely complicated programming, it could be said that it is one of the simplest of its kind.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

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Fortra's Automate

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Awards & Recognition

Fortra's Automate Ratings

87 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

96 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+82 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Fortra's Automate?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Code-Free Programming Drag and Drop graphical user interface to setup processes based on recorded user action and library of stock actions.

Role-Based Access Enable different levels of access based on role e.g. administrators can modify and see all data or department managers have access only to their data.

Unsupervised Launch Bots triggered to action based on a schedule or when prescribed conditions are met.

Distributed Work System is able to deploy additional bots to support overloaded bots based on process performance requirements.

Central Deployment Bots managed and published from a common location to provide version control, manage the bot's system access rights, and act as repository for future reuse.

Concurrent Work Bots can be synchronized to access resources at the same time and undertake processes in parallel from different machines.

Real-Time Debugging Identifying errors in process while bot is working.

Optical Character Recognition The ability to transcribe the image text into a format that is recognized as electronic text

User Libraries Stock of standard actions that are ready to use, as is, or that can be the building blocks of customized actions.

Action Logging Executed processes are logged for detailed auditing and compliance regulation.

Exception Handling Bots take specific standard actions based on unexpected conditions.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Fortra's Automate Screenshots

Automate Recorder

new task

task builder

calendar

reports

workflow designer

Fortra's Automate Downloads

[Case Study] Automate Oregon School Association

[Case Study] Automate Carter Bank and Trust

RPA Buyers Guide (English)

What is Robotic Process Automation?

Automate Use Case Guide

Automation Center of Excellence Handbook

Fortra's Automate Videos

Automated Loan Processing

Automate User Provisioning

Automate Overview

Carter Bank & Trust Achieves High ROI with Automate

Fortra's Automate Reviews

Rodney S.

Expensive, but easy to use and good ROI

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Larry C.

They keep adding product features and enhancing a

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Maria T.

An understandable robotic assistance system

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Code-Free Programming

Role-Based Access

Unsupervised Launch

Distributed Work

Central Deployment

Concurrent Work

Real-Time Debugging

Optical Character Recognition

User Libraries

Action Logging

Exception Handling

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Usability and Intuitiveness

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training