With IT organizations now finding it necessary to
adopt an "architectural" approach to IT automation by unifying
multiple scheduling solutions, Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. (ASCI) addressed
the need to consolidate “point” scheduling solutions within Microsoft environments
at this year’s Microsoft Management Summit with the latest release of
ActiveBatch workload automation and job scheduling. Version 9 Service Pack 2
features new two-way integration for Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012
and major improvements to existing Microsoft Dynamics AX integration, enabling
IT organizations to augment the runbook automation capabilities of Orchestrator
with the business process and workload automation capabilities of ActiveBatch.
By providing IT organizations a single automation solution for both
business and IT operational processes, the release is meant to increase IT
productivity by eliminating the need to manage disparate automation tools.
ActiveBatch is the first workload automation product
to offer integration with Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012, providing
a two-way extension with job steps that schedule and run Orchestrator jobs from
within ActiveBatch in addition to ActiveBatch jobs to be directly accessed and
triggered within Orchestrator. SP2 also upgraded ActiveBatch’s existing
Dynamics AX Extension, which was released back in October, featuring numerous
improvements and refinements for users to better schedule, automate and
integrate Dynamics AX processes throughout the enterprise.
No longer can businesses rely on traditional
“elemental” approaches to IT automation with well-defined tasks set according
to static schedules, solving “point” problems with platform-specific, “point”
scheduling solutions. This way of thinking is outdated – in the fluid 24/7 world
where business demands are real-time and where IT resources are a mix of both
physical and virtual, a single automation solution is needed to manage it all.
Workload automation solutions, like ActiveBatch, can automate common IT tasks
across a broad range of technologies and process types without the need for
scripting and from a single interface. SP2 further caters to this new way of
thinking, making the product ideal for IT organizations operating in diverse,
Microsoft led-environments to utilize a single automation solution for all of
its processes.
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