Workato Enterprise Automation Platform
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Surprisingly broad solution with powerful use cases and extensive collection of recipes
What do you like best about the product?
Time to value realization is very fast. Impressed with the ease of use and versatility. You can start with simple point solutions, get quick results and then scale fast to multiple broad areas. Innovative bot building solutions allow you to go beyond cloud integration and workflow. Having been in the integration space for couple of decades, I was impressed by how digital transformation can be accelerated through appropriate use of Workato. Many of our customers had legacy integration, middleware, BPM and SOA tools but the simplification without sacrificing enterprise support has made Workato their go to choice now. In many ROI calculations, Workato comes way ahead.
What do you dislike about the product?
Less of a dislike but more of challenge. Many of our customers seem to start with workato in a specific area due to existing recipes or immediate needs and lose out on the broader solution patterns. Some additional pointed documentation might highlight opportunities to leverage investments better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The primary problems was rapid rollout of new automated solutions for capturing key events and exceptions and translating them into workflow as new business capabilities were being rolled out. Some use cases were around big data and Splunk driven workflows while others were rapid responses to events in SalesForce, Slack or other engagement systems. A few customers were working on reducing legacy footprint using Workato to handle legacy integrations with cloud and front end systems. The key benefits were speed of implementation, better collaboration between business and IT, new capabilities not available with legacy integrations already in the enterprise.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do not try to be boxed within legacy integration models. Look at the rich collection of use cases and see the best fit for your business problem. Once you get the initial experience, go back and look at the broader enterprise needs and see ways to scale. While recipes with ServiceNow, SalesForce, Slack, etc are obvious look for the innovative workflows that can give your business users the edge. We do not see this as completely driven by business users but a lot better business aligned than most IT centered solutions out there.
Sky's the limit.
What do you like best about the product?
The sheer customizability of what you can do by using Workato to connect the various apps you use and make them work together.
For example, Eventbrite organizers can use Workato to get notified via Slack when a new order is processed, and completely customize this Slack message with data points from the Eventbrite order—even include a link to manage the order in Eventbrite!
For example, Eventbrite organizers can use Workato to get notified via Slack when a new order is processed, and completely customize this Slack message with data points from the Eventbrite order—even include a link to manage the order in Eventbrite!
What do you dislike about the product?
As other reviews have stated, there is a bit of a learning curve. But after you get over the initial hump, you realize the full potential of what you can do with Workato.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Alongside Eventbrite, our customers use Salesforce, Hubspot, MailChimp, SurveyMonkey, Marketo, Google Sheets, and the rest. Eventbrite customers use Workato to connect the events part of their business with the rest of their business.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give the free trial a shot & don't be afraid to utilize the Help Center materials. It's a bit of a learning curve, but after you're through it, you really realize all that you can do.
Easy to use and powerful
What do you like best about the product?
I was able to build simple integrations very quickly. Their english like descriptions makes it easy to understand what the recipe does.
For more complex business logic, I found recipes to be expressive enough to describe them. I specifically liked Workato trigger's ability to pick up older events, and not miss events even when a recipe is stopped for changes/fixes. Basically you can stop a recipe, make changes to it, and when you restart Workato will process all events created when recipe was off.
Transaction history is very useful. It gives you details of every step that is executed including the data input/output. You can rerun any failed or successful transaction. Great for debugging and recovery.
For more complex business logic, I found recipes to be expressive enough to describe them. I specifically liked Workato trigger's ability to pick up older events, and not miss events even when a recipe is stopped for changes/fixes. Basically you can stop a recipe, make changes to it, and when you restart Workato will process all events created when recipe was off.
Transaction history is very useful. It gives you details of every step that is executed including the data input/output. You can rerun any failed or successful transaction. Great for debugging and recovery.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the powerful features are not easy to spot. Try/catch, call recipe, array processing are very useful but hard to spot.
For the more complex features, as well as connector actions and triggers, it would be great to have more examples within the doc.
For the more complex features, as well as connector actions and triggers, it would be great to have more examples within the doc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Workflows spanning applications used for PM (Google drive/docs), dev (Jira, Slack, etc.), and partner teams. We also use it for notifications to Slack.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Identify use cases, and build them on Workato even before you purchase. This is a great way to experience the product, and also helps you understand the difference between Workato and some of its competitors.
Workflow & Integration Made Easy
What do you like best about the product?
Their commitment to solving their customers needs and going out of their way to ensure successful deployment. Workato has a very robust number of integrations making it easy to start automating workflows between different systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the integrations don't expose the entire service's APIs. The documentation could better in some areas.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had a very manual onboarding process which we needed to automate. We developed several workflows incorporating Marketo, Salesforce, and Box.
Simple yet powerful
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of creating recipies for Integration. Power of creating custom connectors faster.
Time to take to GoLives.
Flexibility and coolness in UI.
Time to take to GoLives.
Flexibility and coolness in UI.
What do you dislike about the product?
Need more flexibility on custom connectors.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Business Process Integrations both internally and with external customers in the space of QTC.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great Product features and good customer support. The power of custom connectors will give the flexibility to connect any application of cloud. Pricing is good when compared to other biggies like Mulesoft or Tibco. Exposing the tool to Business User just like other cloud systems is the great thing which is much needed in the cloud world.
Slack and Github Integration
What do you like best about the product?
It is obvious that a lot of thoughts have been put together to create this product as it was easy for a non-technical person like me to use. I am keen to explore more and maximise the use of this product.
What do you dislike about the product?
It indeed require some learning at the start but once you get it, it will be really useful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Internal integration, I was trying to centralize and automate information from Github and other data sources.
Very positive experience
What do you like best about the product?
Works really well for our complex Integrations and Business needs.Its Easy to use and people who are migrating to new Apps , Workato will be the best to establish a communication between legacy systems and new Apps.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing, Still we are in the implementing stage. Overall it was a great experience.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integrating and establishing a connection between a two tools. quickly and elegantly connect to the Systems. Product is easy to learn and implement.
Workato helping to automate incident reporting/response
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, ability to ramp up quickly, ability to integrate with disparate systems, including some legacy systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
We've just started down the process and things are going well thus far.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ability to report and respond to service issues much quicker and with more accurate information. As we prove it out, will want to expand the usage of Workato into other domains.
Lead CRM Architect
What do you like best about the product?
The number of connectors available, and the simplicity / familiarity of the user interface make this a winning combination.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have been using this product for over a year and have not found anything I do not like about the product or the company.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integrating business process that span multiple Salesforce.com instances.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a killer product! In the hands of your SAAS administrators system integration takes hours not months.
Smooth and their support has been there to help me with my more complex recipes.
What do you like best about the product?
How easy it is to integrate between various platforms. All you need are credentials and they will automatically authenticate to the respective REST interfaces. Once that's done you can pivot between any other connections you've established. Additionally, they have a thought out RBAC model that allows granularity between users and teams, and connections and recipes.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't anything we dislike with the product. The company is growingly rapidly, takes customer feedback seriously, and advances based on the feedback quickly. I'm excited for the community to grow so that more and more recipe ideas are out there.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integrations with platforms that would otherwise not communicate with each other. Although it might be easy to write up a few REST API calls to a provider, it isn't always so easy to troubleshoot errors. Workato's "job error" section makes it super easy to troubleshoot and re-test.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a great tool for integrations with any tool with a REST interface. The recipes are pretty straightforward, the support is great, and the rate at which they advance the product is fast.
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