Workload Automation

Overview

Benefits

Optimize workload management

Improve decision-making and reduce costs by centralizing management and eliminating manual activities.

Improve business agility

Enable greater development agility and integration with DevOps toolchain for business and infrastructure agility.

Simplify operations

Customize workload dashboards and provide autonomy and precise governance to developers and operators.

Features list

Powerful and intuitive dashboard

A modern look and feel simplifies real-time, data-driven decisions. Customization is easy with built-in widgets, including monitoring and support for data from any REST API.

Self-service automation

Use catalogs and services to submit routine business tasks, running and monitoring processes on demand from a mobile device.

Workflow folders

Empower line-of-business users with a self-service model to manage their jobs and job streams by organizing a hierarchy of folders.

Advanced rerun flexibility

Orchestrate your workflows seamlessly, building recovery logic into the job definition and rerunning job successors from the Monitor Workload view.

Unleashed power of containers

Deploy all components of Workload Automation in containers. Automate cloud-native apps and apps migrated to containerized environments.

Connected jobs using variables

Use variable passing to pass data between jobs and job streams. This feature is now redesigned to ensure a better, simpler user experience.

Hybrid workload automation

Extend your automation environment easily and cost-effectively. In addition, benefit from intelligent automation from a central point of control.

Scheduling through REST APIs

Use application programming interfaces such as REST, SOAP, Java and others to schedule and monitor workloads.

Streamlined release management process

Automate and schedule the development, test and deployment of apps or business processes, with the option to roll back to earlier versions if something goes wrong.

Advanced monitoring

Create and run a query to monitor jobs, share the query with a group of users, and save the query to the list of available queries.

Ready-to-use integrations

Map your business with 35+ business adaptors to integrate smoothly with business applications such as SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Salesforce, Informatica, Hadoop and more.

Managed business risk

Detect issues, analyze impact, and trigger recovery and monitoring in real time.

How it’s used

Automate SAP workloads

Provide a single point of control using IBM Workload Scheduler to manage and monitor SAP and non-SAP applications including governance of SAP environments, data integration, and more.

Automate across clouds

Automatically provision resources for the time period they’re needed. Coordinate resource management with business workflows to optimize business process completion objectives while minimizing resource costs.

Control Salesforce batch jobs

Workload Automation integrates with Salesforce to gain greater control of your Salesforce batch APEX jobs. Govern and coordinate automated Salesforce processing with enterprise resource management applications.

Automate BigInsights

Workload Automation can automate, monitor and control workflows containing BigInsights workbooks and applications to help your enterprise find insights into new and emerging types of data.

Automate Oracle PeopleSoft workloads

Your entire ERP ecosystem benefits from Workload Automation’s ability to maintain a seamless, consistent workflow from one function to another, standardizing processes and reducing overhead costs.

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Centralized auditing

Workload dashboard

Versioning

What-if analysis

Offerings

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