"IT process automation is the key to industrializing your operations to improve productivity
and reduce costs."
- - JP Garbani, Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
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Today, IT departments are operating in increasingly complex environments that contain
an array of heterogeneous technologies, including applications, databases and platforms.
Traditional batch processing and job scheduling solutions only allow for the execution
of one or more jobs on a single system and often require manual intervention. As
a result, workload automation solutions have stepped to the forefront as the next
evolution of job scheduling. IT departments must now support dynamic business environments
where business and/or IT processing is initiated using event-driven scheduling,
date and time or on-demand processing that often combines or merges disparate business
and/or IT processes that require passing data to other processes and technologies,
across both virtual and physical systems.
While most operating systems, mission-critical applications and database management
systems provide their own basic job scheduling capabilities, these point solutions
are often conceived to serve the immediate needs of a given and closed solution.
In a world of application diversity, business processes will, by necessity, cross
these boundaries. As data flow increases, processing volumes grow and the infrastructure
becomes more complex, IT is increasingly relying on workload automation to automate
and standardize file/data transfers, workflows, application and processes and tie
together the various landscapes of heterogeneous IT environments.
By automating daily, repetitive and time-consuming tasks, IT can proactively manage
operations through alerts and notifications, and leverage workflow automation tools
to:
- Contain or reduce costs through improved resource utilization and resources
- Increase productivity using an Event Architecture in addition to Date and Time Scheduling
or ad hoc to initiate workflows.
- Automate many of the time-consuming tasks associated with manual administration
- Reduce the errors associated with manual intervention and custom scripting
- Increase IT agility and response times to business needs
ActiveBatch® Enterprise Job Scheduling & Workload Automation by
Advanced Systems Concepts accomplishes all these goals and more by leveraging a
unique architecture via our Integrated Jobs Library that simplifies the automation
of composite business processes that incorporates proven technologies to simplify
integration, remove complexities and lower time to implementation. ActiveBatch organizes
and manages tasks, applications and database workflows on and across various platforms,
virtual and/or physical in addition to custom and business applications to allow
users to create "end-to-end" workflows.
