An ActiveBatch Workload Automation Success Story
Vero Skatt, the Finnish tax agency, relied on a homegrown batch management system and Windows Task Scheduler to automate thousands of batch processes each week. These tools lacked many modern scheduling capabilities, impacting operations and driving up costs:
- Vero Skatt didn’t have a central point of control for its six environments, complicating management and making transformation almost impossible, while posing security concerns;
- A lack of event automation and an inability to chain related jobs across systems meant Vero Skatt couldn’t build end-to-end workflows without extensive scripting;
- Expanding Vero Skatt’s homegrown solution to accommodate growing workloads was prohibitively expensive and time-consuming.
By The Numbers
6
The number of environments, each running workloads on separate resources, that Vero Skatt manages and monitors with ActiveBatch.
>30
Vero Skatt uses ActiveBatch’s collection of over 30 alerts and alert objects to help streamline their operations.
Vero Skatt Implements ActiveBatch
Vero Skatt decided to migrate to ActiveBatch because it supported Windows, OpenVMS, UNIX, and Linux, and because ActiveBatch would enable them to manage and monitor multiple environments, implement granular security policies, integrate with Active Directory, and more:
- Integration with Active Directory (AD) enables the use of AD accounts within ActiveBatch, reducing the risk of unauthorized access to the IT automation environment;
- ActiveBatch’s Change Management feature is used to synchronize and manage objects across multiple environments;
- Reference objects allow users to pass changes from master jobs to hundreds of thousands of jobs, accelerating workflow development and maintenance without custom scripts.
- ActiveBatch training facilitated Vero Skatt’s transition to ActiveBatch IT Automation, accelerating ROI.