ActiveBatch Value
IT automation can drive value within every part of your organization, from the CIO
to developers, both technical and business. Its value can be traced to the evolution
of job scheduling into an enterprise-wide solution that provides IT departments
with a single automation engine.
As IT environments have become increasingly distributed and complex, scheduling
jobs at the machine level has become impractical and error-prone, resulting in the
need for a single, enterprise automation engine to manage processes across disparate
technologies and make intelligent decisions in real time. The result is saved time
and increased productivity for your IT staff, reduced number of errors from manual
intervention and reduced costs of operations, among others. Take a look below at
some of the technical and business values that ActiveBatch Job Scheduling and Workload
Automation can deliver to your organization or take a look at what Forrester Research and
our customers have to say about the value that ActiveBatch delivers.
Technical Benefits
Scriptless Integration - Scripting takes time, is prone to errors and requires constant
updating by its original author. ActiveBatch removes the necessity for scripting
through its
Integrated Jobs
Library, reducing the errors associated with scripting and saving time for
IT staff.
Reduce "Slack" Time - Relying simply on date and time scheduling to trigger jobs
can waste time and reduce server utilization. ActiveBatch's robust event automation
allows users to execute a job or plan once an event is declared.
Simplify Scheduling Across Complex Environments -
Windows Task Scheduler, SQL Server Scheduler,
Cron, SAP,
Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle...the
number of "closed" schedulers that comprise today's IT environment can benefit from
ActiveBatch's single point of control to manage, automate and execute workflows
that span all of your technologies.
Improved Resource Management - Running jobs across diverse technologies requires
resources, both physical and virtual. Workloads that aren't processed in time can
have consequences. ActiveBatch centralizes and automates the management of IT resources
so workloads run successfully and on time.
Business Benefits
Reduce Cost of IT Operations - The number of disparate technologies comprising your
IT department is growing, but staffing and budgets remain the same. IT automation
can serve as a catalyst to drive efficiency and reduce your cost of operations through
the automation of time-consuming and resource-intensive processes.
Improve Service Levels - The ability to execute mission-critical business processes
are often reliant on IT's ability to deliver the resources necessary to execute
them. ActiveBatch assists in improving IT service levels and meeting SLAs through
the automation of resource management and "Intelligent Automation," or its ability
to execute workflows based on historical performance analysis.
Align Business and IT Processes For Improved Flexibility - In today's 24x7 business
world, businesses have to be more agile when it comes to building and adjusting
business and IT processes to respond to competitive and customer pressures. ActiveBatch
provides your organization with a single automation engine by which to build and
modify workflows quickly and seamlessly to better align business and IT processes
for improved business results.
