Redwood Software provides a comprehensive suite of workload automation products designed to empower businesses of all sizes to streamline their operations and optimize resource management.
RunMyJobs by Redwood, ActiveBatch by Redwood and Tidal by Redwood, three distinct workload automation (WLA) offerings, cater to a diverse range of automation needs.
The world’s leading companies rely on Redwood’s solutions to automate critical processes and drive business outcomes.
Orchestrate mission-critical business processes spanning your entire tech stack, seamlessly integrating with SAP, Oracle and other top-tier platforms, using the only SaaS-based full stack workload automation solution built for hybrid cloud.
Reliably run critical business processes with minimal effort and extend the power of your IT team using the easiest-to-use workload automation platform on the market, featuring intuitive, no-code/low-code, drag-and-drop UI.
Centralize your critical process orchestration with enterprise-wide workload automation designed for simplified management and execution and extensive connectivity, including deep integration with Oracle JD Edwards.
Securely orchestrate business processes for your entire enterprise across all systems and applications, no matter how complex your tech stack or use cases, with future-proof workload automation that scales.
See why RunMyJobs is a leading service orchestration and automation platform (SOAP) that works for any business, regardless of industry, company size or IT complexity.
Elevate enterprise efficiency with the only SaaS workload automation solution built for hybrid cloud, offering high availability and performance with lightweight agents for auto-updating. With a comprehensive suite of cloud components, single-tenant architecture and advanced technologies like JDBC, SOAP, REST and OData, you’ll achieve consistent data security.
Centralize all your critical business processes in one powerful cloud-native platform designed for end-to-end control and visibility. See all business processes via convenient dashboards and receive notifications when potential issues arise, equipping your team to engage in timely resolution. Take necessary action quickly with the business intelligence you need to make better decisions.
As SAP’s #1 recommended workload automation solution, RunMyJobs has the broadest and deepest set of SAP connectors, allowing you to automate across your entire SAP and non-SAP ecosystem. With a two-decade SAP partnership and the most SAP certifications — including S/4HANA, “Works with RISE” and SAP Industry Cloud for Utilities — RunMyJobs easily connects with all ERPs, including Oracle.
Seamlessly connect all your systems, data and people, no matter how complex your IT landscape, with limitless integrations and no extra costs to add or expand. Support scalability with unlimited servers, applications and environments and a growing library of connectors with no coding, scripting skills or hardware required.
Known for its ease of use, ActiveBatch is the workload automation solution that makes automating processes across your business simple. Automate workflows in half the time vs. scripting.
Connect ActiveBatch to any application or service — third-party or in-house — and have the flexibility to adopt new applications as needed with our Super REST API Adapter, which allows for infinite extensibility. Easily integrate with popular systems, including SAP, Oracle, VMWare, Informatica, Amazon, Microsoft and more, using ActiveBatch’s robust connector library and intuitive user interface for adding multiple actions to a connector.
Simply create cross-platform workflows with 100+ production-ready, pre-built job steps for third-party applications, databases and platforms on-premises or in cloud or hybrid environments. A drag-and-drop UI and guided wizards easily enable less experienced IT team members to build workflows 50% faster. Get pre-built building blocks for commonly scripted actions and protect existing scripts with lifecycle management capabilities.
Prevent job failures and delays with powerful, dependable, real-time monitoring and limitless customizable alerts. Set conditions, triggers and critical thresholds and automate remediations for overruns, underruns, potential service-level agreement (SLA) breaches and more. Multiple developer and operations views — machine load, forecast and Gantt — deliver information to keep you updated and inform quick action when necessary.
Build end-to-end workflows spanning your entire IT environment with ActiveBatch’s comprehensive library of integrations and extensions. Built-in integrations and pre-built job steps for third-party applications, databases and platforms make integration with any system seamless. Use extensions and add-ins to meet specific IT environment requirements for the most efficient workflows.
Make scheduling business, operations and IT processes across your entire IT stack easier to manage using a single point of control.
Manage scheduling across time zones, considering Daylight Savings Time changes or regional holidays using dozens of commonly used calendars, or create custom calendars. Event-based architecture lets you define alerts and automate multiple actions based on a single event, such as triggering a job or sending an email or notification, limiting manual intervention.
Automatically monitor activities and take action with event-based alerts in real-time to any browser-enabled device generated externally or integrated with ServiceNow. If a job fails, automatically initiate a recovery action, email the owner, message the central console and trigger an incident report. Built-in SLA management and critical path tracking alert if jobs are at risk or a defined SLA is missed.
Orchestrate job scheduling across JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and other applications from Tidal for end-to-end control and visibility. Leverage JD Edwards’ advanced batch job scheduling, Universal Batch Engine (UBE) and processing options with Tidal’s event-based scheduling, dependencies management, monitoring and more to improve business processes and SLAs while consolidating resources.
With a full API and CLI along with SSH and Web Services adapters, Tidal makes it easy to integrate applications into workflows and free up developer time for higher-value activities. Tidal Repository allows you to keep schedule changes in sync with code changes. Tidal’s 60+ pre-built integrations deliver automation across all layers of the enterprise, from applications to middleware and infrastructure, for a seamless connection.
All Redwood customers experience the same high level of product performance, reliability and support.
Effortlessly transition to Redwood using our proven migration process, guided by hands-on, expert support. Ensure continuous operations and avoid cut-off surprises with controlled, agile sprints accompanied by Redwood Hypercare.
With specialized data migration tooling, your data is seamlessly migrated, and your team will be confident and platform-ready before going live with on-site training, on-demand e-learning and practical sessions.
As you begin migrating to Redwood and throughout your time with us, our team is dedicated to supporting your business’s success. Redwood customers benefit from best-in-class customer support and the industry’s highest service-level agreements (SLAs) with 24/7 availability and 15-minute response times.
Get a dedicated account team 100% focused on automation that knows and understands your business.
With full encryption (TLS 1.3, SSL) and industry-leading security policies, you can trust that Redwood maintains strict security and compliance standards, with all products adhering to Redwood’s information security processes for data protection. All Redwood workload automation solutions are ISO 27001 and SOC2 Type II certified. RunMyJobs is also ISAE 3402 Type II, SSAE 18 SOC 1 Type 2, TX-RAMP Provisional Certification and Cloud Security Alliance STAR Level 1 certified.
With 30 years of automation expertise and having delivered Service Orchestration and Automation Platform (SOAP) capabilities as SaaS for over 10 years, Redwood was named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for SOAPs report.
Workload automation tools automate business processes, eliminating the need for human intervention to schedule, run and manage repetitive tasks within a business process or transaction across different operating systems and computing environments. By automating these tasks, organizations can ensure that complex processes, such as data transfers, report generation, batch processing and more, execute accurately and on time. The evolved version of mainframe job scheduling tools, modern workload automation tools help reduce operational delays, minimize errors caused by manual processing and allow businesses to scale their operations more efficiently.
In addition to streamlining IT operations, workload automation tools can integrate with other business applications, creating a seamless flow across departments and systems. This type of automation centralizes control over automated tasks, providing IT teams with the ability to monitor, audit, and troubleshoot processes in real time. With workload automation in place, businesses can optimize resource provisioning, improve compliance and enhance service delivery, leading to higher efficiency and better alignment with organizational goals.
Both powerful solutions, robotic process automation (RPA) and workflow automation (WLA), have synergies and differences. RPA deploys software robots to automate repetitive tasks and data entry, reducing the scope of human error. RPA bots operate on rules-based approaches, streamlining specific tasks and interacting with user interfaces, applications and APIs, mimicking human tasks and enhancing efficiency.
On the other hand, WLA focuses on automating the flow of tasks within business processes, facilitating end-to-end optimization. This involves utilizing automation tools and technologies to streamline work activities, improve decision-making and minimize bottlenecks, thereby enhancing the overall efficiency of business operations.
Read more about the difference between RPA vs WLA.
Workload automation and process automation both play vital roles in driving operational efficiency. Process automation is a broad category that refers to automating any recurring, rule-based tasks to improve accuracy and speed. These range from simple tasks, like automating data entry in a single application, to complex business processes, such as automating the customer billing cycle and data collection to invoice generation. Process automation serves specific functions within a department and may operate independently of other processes or systems.
Workload automation is more expansive and focuses on coordinating and automating multiple processes across systems and applications. It centralizes control over workflows across different environments, so it’s particularly suited for enterprises managing large-scale operations and complex interdependencies. Workload automation tools help manage end-to-end tasks and ensure that each component in a business process aligns with other automated processes to support business objectives. While process automation enhances efficiency within individual processes, workload automation orchestrates those processes enterprise-wide.