Layers of Automation

The Problem: An Elemental Approach

IT has more to manage than ever before. As a result, IT teams are striving to streamline their processes and increase efficiencies with automation. Often, automation takes the form of custom scripts or built-in scheduling components –IT finds a problem, IT solves that problem. This is an elemental approach to automation.

While an elemental type of approach may prove effective in the short term because it solves immediate problem areas, over time it becomes increasingly complex, expensive, and difficult to manage. Disparate applications, technologies, and platforms that were not designed to easily communicate with one another makes the building of end-to-end workflows, the passing of data, and the management of dependencies difficult, often requiring extensive coding.

Additionally, each tool may come with its own licensing and support costs, and each tool may require time-consuming, costly training. IT amasses collections of complex scripts and multiple scheduling and automation tools, and the automation environment becomes siloed. These silos increase complexity and costs, consequently slowing IT down with reduced efficiency.

IT teams need a more systematic, architectural way to manage the different layers of their automation.

What Are the Layers of Automation?

The Solution: An Architectural, Layered Approach

To reduce complexity, organizations need to take an Architectural, Layered Approach to automation. This approach coordinates and consolidates silos of automation, providing a single point of control. To adopt an Architectural, Layered Approach to automation, IT teams need a solution that is designed for handling a multitude of automation areas and designed for changing business and IT requirements.

This approach frees IT from repetitive, time-consuming, manual tasks, and facilitates innovation, enabling IT to drive business value for the organization.

ActiveBatch is a workload automation and enterprise job scheduling solution that takes an Architectural, Layered Approach to automation. A unified, cross-platform solution, ActiveBatch increases IT and organizational agility, reduces overall costs, and increases efficiency and reliability. This allows IT to meet the constantly changing needs of the business and keep up with the pace of digitalization in the industry.

ActiveBatch offers the largest library of pre-built integrations on the market to allow developers to:

• Build and automate complex end-to-end workflows in half the time
• Reduce their reliance on custom scripting
• Reduce the overall cost of IT and business operations