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Despite the fact that job scheduling is often a business critical process, many organisations are yet to move to a centralised Workload Automation solution. This is despite the fact that such technology is no longer considered “new”, with the benefits of deploying Workload Automation being clear, compelling and plentiful.
At Elyzium, we have lived, breathed (and sometimes dreamed about!) Workload Automation since 2002 and have discovered through partnerships with many clients that there are two main factors that organisations see as being prohibitive when considering a move to a centralised solution. The first, unsurprisingly, is cost. Software licenses, irrespective of Vendor, are expensive. Most new IT initiatives or projects will have a job scheduling element, however often this won’t be accounted for in the budget. We’ve found that this has led to organisations instead having to develop their own in-house scripts to support these projects, use far cheaper, vastly inferior software or even worse - freeware.
Of course in the short term this will keep capital expenditure costs down, however doing it this way is not a long term solution, and actually contributes vastly to the second prohibitive factor clients always mention – complexity. As the organisation grows, and they implement more and more scheduling tools, the environment becomes a nightmare to manage, often requiring several full time employees to keep it ticking over. But this is only one element of the complexity story. The other is complexity of migration. With many different tools in place, migrating to a single solution is perceived as being near on impossible, with IT departments fearing that it will take forever, cost a small fortune in consultancy fees and be riddled with business risk. Everything is working at the moment right, so why change it when many of these processes are critical for day-to-day operations? And so the vicious circle keeps turning with apparent capital expenditure savings actually leading to an increase in operational expenditure, and complexity continually on the increase!
At Elyzium, we have developed unique solutions that tackle these issues head on. The first is JobExecutor.com. Powered by IBM’s Tivoli Workload Scheduler, built upon IBM’s SoftLayer global infrastructure, and fully supported by Elyzium’s XpertCare team, JobExecutor.com provides a Cloud-based, enterprise standard Workload Automation solution at a fraction of the price of traditional on premise solutions. Plus, since it is very simply priced per job, you won’t need a maths degree to work out your PVU and sub-capacity licence requirements! As your requirements grow, you just “add more jobs”. To read more about JobExecutor, please visit www.jobexecutor.com , or download the datasheet here .
Tackling the complexity of migration issue is WorkloadMigrator. Irrespective of whether you standardise on an on premise, Cloud or hybrid solution, WorkloadMigrator is a services engagement utilising unique, Elyzium developed tools to quickly, easily and accurately migrate competitive batch scheduling environments over to TWS. For more information on WorkloadMigrator view the datasheet here , or visit www.workloadmigrator.com .
We can even perform a complete appraisal of your workload automation environment, providing the justification required to move towards a consolidated environment, whilst setting out a clear path to allow you to achieve your goals with no impact to your business. A “Lite” version of the assessment is also available which is performed remotely at no cost to your business.
If you’d like to discuss your organisations specific requirements and how we can help, then please get in touch. |
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