VisualCron Reviews

It is quick and easy to use scheduling and some simple SQL jobs. We have some tools to automate our stuff, including CI/CD stuff (like Jenkins) and building pipelines. For the every day business user, this is way too complicated. It breaks a fly on the wheel for these sort of requirements. VisualCron is a handy tool that we (the IT department) provide for the business departments to obtain easy access when automating and scheduling. We absolutely love this nifty piece of software.

It has improved our organization with more automation within the business departments and less administration and development in the IT department. Usually, as the IT department, we are the bottleneck for many requirements within the business. With this tool, the business departments are able to perform many task themselves.

Simplicity is the most valuable feature. You just use the tool. Some preferences and permissions are not quite self-explanatory, but those are rather advanced features. Our internal customers are able to perform their tasks without our assistance.

The guys work very hard and that amazes us with every major release. Our suggestion to make it better and more manageable in terms of GDPR: Implement it in a very partnership way. 

Over five years.

It has worked like a charm for five years. We have had more problems with the Windows Server beneath it than with VisualCron.

Scalability seems possible, but currently we are using a small setup without the need to scale.

Those guys are amazing. Their support answers quickly. 

Michael and Henrik are always friendly and competent. I love them. 

We still use other software for similar tasks, but those are with DevOps in mind. Those are way too complicated for business users. If you're looking for a GUI tool, VisualCron is the best that we have found so far

Straightforward.

In-house: It was a simple setup.

Don't know the number, but very high. 

We are fine with a rather cheap setup. Licensing with VisualCron is fair. You have a simple one-year licence in different sizes. There isn't a licensing jungle with hundreds of options and opt-ins.

OpenStudio, Airflow, and Talend.

I absolutely love these guys. We have had web sessions, mails, and forum support. There are always friendly and very quick regarding understanding problems and answering.

We use it for replacing files from our FTP server to our network work folders or as an email selector for invoices. We receive invoices into a certain mailbox depending on the sender address where we make mail triggers. In the trigger, we can manage what to do with the attachments:

1. We put the invoice into a process folder. 
2. We put the attachments into a subfolder where we merge the invoice with attachments. 
3. Once you make the job/trigger in every mail, it is processed automatically.

VisualCron is a very powerful program to automate different steps in your business processes. We use it to automate replacing files and inform departments about the replacement.

Mail trigger: When a mail is delivered into a specific inbox, you can fire off your task depending on this.

Event trigger: When a file is placed in a certain folder, you fire off your task depending on this.

There are a lot of tasks that you can use for all kinds of stuff. 

It's very useful to use variables which help you to specify some jobs.

The forum is very useful.

There are some conditions in the mail trigger, but you can only use them as an "AND" condition, not as an "OR" condition. This is an improvement that could be useful. For example, some people put "invoice" in the subject and others put "invoice" in the body. If I want to make a trigger for everybody whose sending invoices, I have to make two jobs for this now.

Seven years.

Good.

Very good.

Michael and Henrik from support are very kind, helpful, and almost always available for questions when there is something wrong with a job (you have made), but is not working anymore. The have helped me often with different things. 

The forum is very useful for solutions on things you want to change or problems you are struggling with.

No.

Straightforward with the help of support.

In-house.

One month.

No.

We set up nightly sync tasks in which it is making different requests.

Helped us reduce manual steps.

Nightly sync tasks.

The error timeout and info could be better. When making web request calls, it will time out sometimes and we won't get any useful info out of the error response.

Since 2017.

Nine out of 10.

Eight out of 10

Support is AAA+, fast, and very detailed. 

Yes, but VisualCron was chosen by our client. 

Straightforward.

In-house.

ROI is 95 percent.

I am not be aware of what our clients evaluated as other tools.