White Papers - ActiveBatch® Resource Center
Advanced Systems Concepts understands that selecting an Enterprise Job Scheduling and Workload Automation solution is an important decision. To help we have provided you with a wide range of customer success stories from customers around the world and across different industries and sizes. We hope that you take a few moments and see why over 1,500 customers in 45 countries have found ActiveBatch to be the ideal solution in helping them to reduce IT complexity through ActiveBatch Workload Automation.
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| A Look Ahead: Workload Automation Trends to Watch for in 2013 Fluidity is the new mantra in workload automation. Management demands, data sources, SLA requirements, computing infrastructure—everything attached to IT is turning more flexible, more diverse and more nimble in order to satisfy the accelerating pace of business. At the center of it all, job scheduling and workload automation is becoming more important than at any time in the last 30 years. Read More... |
| The Power Center Automation Conundrum: How Enterprise Job Scheduling & Workload Automation can create Real-Time Data Warehousing & “Agile BI” In recent years, the democratization of analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions has become a driving force in the growing complexity of data integration and data warehousing processes. The use of BI applications is growing exponentially, making data repositories an essential component of enterprise IT organizations. Add in new forms of data, such as various enterprise resource planning (ERP), inventory and supply chain management (SCM), web services applications, mobile devices, cloud-based sources, Big Data and more, and it's clear just how important real-time data warehouses have become. Read More... |
| Cloud Computing and the Promise of Intelligent Automation Cloud computing is transforming just about every facet of enterprise IT. Yet one of the stalwarts of IT - workload automation - may actually hold the key to making the most of this revolutionary innovation. Read More... |
| Automating Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing - Bdaily Business Network Colin Beasty, Product Marketing Manager for Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. a workload automation solution provider, shares his expertise on Business Intelligence Processes. Read More... |
| Data Center Tipping Point: The Case for Automation in a Distributed IT World As IT organizations continue to balance rising resource demands versus constraints on data center space and budgets, they’re being forced to do more with less. To cope, IT departments are aiming to squeeze efficiencies out of existing infrastructure by betting heavily on consolidation, virtualization and new hardware. While upgrading and virtualizing is all the rage, IT departments are still supporting legacy applications that drive value and store critical data, leading to heterogeneous IT environments. Read More... |
| Tech Tip: Isn’t an Enterprise Job Scheduling Solution Just Windows Task Scheduler? If your entire IT environment is exclusively Microsoft Windows, then absolutely your enterprise job scheduling solution is Windows Task Scheduler. But if that environment includes other applications, like SQL Server, Oracle, or Exchange, or if you run more than one operating system (OS), such as flavors of UNIX or Linux, Windows Task Scheduler isn’t going to solve your problems. Read More... |
| White Paper: The Power of the ActiveBatch Centralized Console Thinking about finding a best-fit solution for automating IT job scheduling? If so, translating the capabilities you require into a set of requests can be a challenging activity. If your purchasing process requires a fulfilled requirements specification prior to purchasing a new tool, consider ActiveBatch solution V8 - the perfect fit for your needs. In addition to its set of scheduling capabilities is a centralized console that provides the information you need about the jobs you're constructing or running via a thick client, web server or mobile device, regardless of your location. Download the White Paper! Read More... |
| White Paper: Job Scheduling in IT Operations You're an IT administrator. You're no developer. Your daily tasks revolve around keeping the servers and desktops running. You might have to create the occasional database query or set up a scheduled task, but the vast majority of your day deals with daily care and feeding of computer hardware. Why do you need IT job scheduling, right? That's for developers. You couldn't be more wrong. Download the White Paper! Read More... |
| White Paper: Looking Outside the SQL Server Box Are you finding that the data center doesn't have the kinds of automation it really needs? Are your IT administrators spending too much time looking at their own activities while not interacting with others? Is that single focus on single applications costing you time, money and computational waste? Download the White Paper! Read More... |
| White Paper: ActiveBatch® Processes Data Across Applications and Platforms You know Windows Task Scheduler and UNIX crontabs. You also know about database triggers and other application-specific mechanisms for triggering actions. You're also probably familiar with their limitations. Although these tools can absolutely schedule actions for a single product, the don't do well when actions need to be scheduled across multiple products. They're great at scheduling an activity based on the time of day, but more complex needs like event-based scheduling usually aren't available. If your IT job scheduling needs go beyond the clock on the wall, you need a better solution. Download the White Paper! Read More... |