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Enterprise Job Scheduling: How Your Organization Can Benefit from Automation
December 7, 2018
Today’s companies need automation solutions to attain the high levels of availability, reliability, and productivity required to coordinate complex operations across many different systems. To this end, cross-platform enterprise job schedulers, such as JAMS, allow you to better control and automate your job streams, even ones with intricate dependencies. Automation solutions also have the potential Read More
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Workload Automation: The Heart of Enterprise Operations
December 7, 2018
Originally, job scheduling software automated the tedious batch submission of IT workloads. While most systems have some rudimentary ability to run tasks locally, those capabilities fall short in terms of ease of administration and the ability to define jobs across distributed systems and servers. As the number and variety of platforms has spread, distributed job Read More
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The Job Scheduling Journey: Finding the Right Scheduler for Your Organization
December 2, 2018
How you manage the background processing in your data center says a lot about you as an IT professional. Reports, backups, and other maintenance—these jobs aren’t glamorous, but they are critical and highly visible. When the completion of IT processes directly impacts the bottom line of the organization or the satisfaction of clients, it is important to maintain an Read More
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6 Job Scheduling Tactics for Windows Server Sprawl
October 7, 2018
Companies run many of their mission-critical processes on a growing array of Windows servers these days. Instead of automating nightly batch streams on a mainframe, data centers are running processes on multiple Windows servers using built-in schedulers like the Windows Task Scheduler applet or Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. Simple schedulers like Windows task scheduler work well on individual Read More
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Dependency: A Workload Automation Core Concept
October 1, 2018
False starts eat away at an enterprise schedule. So many cycles of computing, database querying, and VM provisioning are wasted because some file wasn’t available yet, or some variable wasn’t set. No matter how perfect your part of the process was executed, the output remains valueless. And, the time invested is a loss to your Read More
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Why Batch Processing Will Never Die
June 14, 2018
An attendee at one of our recent webinars made this comment, “Batch is dead. Why would I need a workload automation tool?” Yes, the definition of batch has changed over the years. But, background processing will never die. It’s just not visible to the end user. For example, when you place an order on a website that order Read More
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Maximizing Informatica Scheduling
May 31, 2018
Informatica is a powerful tool that helps your organization extract, send, verify, and replicate data. If you’re using Informatica, it probably interacts with many of the systems critical to your business, including CRM, ERP, and others. But if Informatica isn’t fully automated and integrated with the rest of your environment, you’re not maximizing your investment Read More
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