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Beyond Job Scheduling: The Road to Enterprise Process Automation

Date: May 2008
Type: White Paper
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Overview: The relentless pace of today’s business environment and its enormous pressures on IT staff has made it critical for corporate business systems to become more responsive and reliable. End-user expectations for reliability and speed grow dramatically as more and more users have come in contact with a wider array of software applications.

The rise of the web has proven to be the ultimate nemesis for the so-called ‘batch window’ – that nightly opportunity to run large groups of transactions offline. Instead we have seen the rise of the ‘real-time organization’ that needs to respond to changing business conditions quickly and effortlessly in a 24 / 7 fashion. This creates significant challenges for corporations as they try to respond to the demands of near real-time processing with their traditional batch-oriented back end systems. This white paper demonstrates the ever-increasing value of adding enterprise process automation software to the IT infrastructure. It traces the evolution of traditional batch scheduling, illustrates where leading edge products are today, and outlines a set of requirements for moving beyond batch processing and into the realm of true enterprise process automation.


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