Value of ActiveBatch

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 "In total, we saved a couple years of work. We would've had to hire at least two more people, and that's not even counting the opportunity cost and potential lost revenue." 

-- Brian Thompson, Operations Manager at Statkraft

The Value of ActiveBatch IT Automation

To stay competitive in today's complex technology environments, enterprises are relying heavily on workload automation and job scheduling software to connect the disparate systems in their environments and streamline operations. Yet determining the real ROI and true costs of workload automation has been a challenge for many organizations.

Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study to examine the potential ROI enterprises may realize by deploying ActiveBatch. 

Forrester conducted the single company analysis with ActiveBatch customer, Statkraft, Europe's largest generator of renewable energy.

The study found that enterprises can achieve a 153% ROI in only 3.4 months by using ActiveBatch. Download the Total Economic Impact Study here!

Technical Benefits

Consolidate Silos of Automation 
Implementing platform-specific scheduling tools builds silos of automation that represent a temporary fix that becomes brittle over time and becomes increasingly hard to maintain. Unify "point" solutions with an architectural automation solution.

Improve Productivity 
Jumping from one server to the next to manage multiple jobs takes time and increases the chances of manual error. Providing users with a single interface from which to build, manage ,and monitor jobs across the enterprise saves time and improves productivity.

Reduce Slack Time 
Relying on the basic date/time scheduling functionality of platform-specific scheduling tools often requires organizations to waste time between the execution of workflows and jobs. ActiveBatch's robust event automation allows users to execute a job or plan once an event is declared or when a preceding, dependent job has completed, eliminating any unnecessary wait time.

Improve Resource Management
Running jobs across diverse platforms, both physical and virtual, using "point" scheduling tools means running jobs in parallel is difficult if not impossible. Taking an architectural approach allows IT organizations to make better use of its hardware and improve batch runtimes.


Business Benefits

Reduce IT Operational Costs
The number of point scheduling tools comprising your IT department is growing, but staffing and budgets remain the same. A workload automation solution can serve as a catalyst to increase staff productivity while reducing operational costs through the automation of time-consuming processes and the consolidation of platform-specific scheduling tools.

Improve IT Service Levels 
The ability to successfully automate business and IT operational processes, and correct an issue when something does go wrong, directly impacts the ability of an IT organization to support the business. ActiveBatch improves IT service levels via its event automation architecture, resource management, SLA governance capabilities and integration with IT operational and help desk systems.

Built for Change
The elemental approach to IT automation is not an "enterprise-grade" strategy nor is it scalable and built for change. As IT organizations are forced to adapt due to changing IT environments and business requirements, having a single automation solution that is built for change adds agility to an IT organization by simplifying the building and modification of complex workflows and process types.

Automation Becomes a Strategic Priority 
IT automation becomes a strategic priority that drives governance, visibility, control, and most importantly, alignment and collaboration between organizational islands within the IT organization.