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Fortra

Automate

Composite Score

8.6 /10

CX Score

8.7 /10

149 Reviews Write a Review

What is 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

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

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7 Top Rated Features

2024

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2023

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2022

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.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Product Experience

Negotiation and Contract

Conflict Resolution

Strategy & Innovation

Service Experience

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product Experience:: 88%
Negotiation and Contract:: 76%
Conflict Resolution:: 86%
Strategy & Innovation:: 81%
Service Experience:: 86%

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.

+83 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 Automate?

4% Negative

9% Neutral

87% Positive

Pros

Respectful
Enables Productivity
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy

Feature Ratings

Average 82

Process Discovery

Automation Orchestration

Cloud Hosting

Code-Free Programming

Role-Based Access

Unsupervised Launch

Distributed Work

Out of the box integration

Central Deployment

Concurrent Work

User Libraries

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

Quality of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

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Prateek A.

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

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2025

Great solution to automate your work!

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Automate from other similar products?

Fortra Automate is one of the great automating solutions in the market. It has all the capabilities which can reduce the manual work in an efficient way to reduce human efforts, organization cost, and time.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Fortra Automate has an excellent user interface. Any non-technical person with minimum product knowledge can easily work on this solution. The customer support is also very good, and they handle the user queries in a very professional manner.

What do you dislike most about this product?

- Cloud functionality. - Stability. - Increase community base. - Improvements in the documentation. - Accuracy in automated tasks.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Any user can go with this solution without a second thought if their requirements are fulfilled.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Caring
Saves Time

Derris B.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2025

One of the better RPA tools on the market.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Automate from other similar products?

Ease of use and deployment for small, medium and larege enterprise organizations.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It solves various use cases and has relevant code to download from community\support site.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Some customers complain on the price.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Try it for 30 days and see how easy it is to utilize.

Pros

Enables Productivity
Generous Negotitation
Transparent
Appreciates Incumbent Status

Todd C.

Role: Operations
Industry: Agriculture
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2024

Very capable and automation works as advertised.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Automate from other similar products?

Fortra Automate seems similar to competing products, but we had a strong recommendation and an excellent experience working with their sales and onboarding team which helped us decide to go with them.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Mixing of multiple types of automation steps from keyboard/mouse handling to running scripts and executables within a worflow.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Would like more and easier to consume online training videos and detailed walk-through examples with explanations that my team to follow to improve their skills using the software.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Keep and open mind and be creative in how your consider using this software to automate processes.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Fair

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96 Plan to Renew

78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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+83 Net Emotional Footprint

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

Process Discovery Analysis of user interactions with systems and applications to generate a mapping of the workflow.

Automation Orchestration Manage, monitor and schedule the interactions, tasks and workflows among bots and other automation solutions through a centralized dashboard

Cloud Hosting Deployment of RPA bots in a cloud environment hosted and managed by the vendor.

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.

Out of the box integration Ready-to-use connectors with 3rd party applications, systems and databases.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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Prateek A.

Great solution to automate your work!

Likeliness to Recommend

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Derris B.

One of the better RPA tools on the market.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Todd C.

Very capable and automation works as advertised.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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