Optimize and automate complex workloads for greater IT efficiency
Automation platform integrating IT, operational, and business workflows
IBM Workload Automation is an automation platform integrating IT, operational, and business workflows to optimize orchestration for the execution of unattended and event-driven processes built to operate in hybrid environments. IBM Workload Automation provides a single point of control for your automated activities with an intuitive user interface that enables users to model, manage, and monitor their workloads, enhanced with graphical views, embedded analytics, and customizable dashboards.
Recognized by industry analysts
IBM Workload Automation recognized as a Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for the third consecutive year
IBM has been positioned as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms. We believe this recognition reflects IBM’s continued commitment to helping enterprises automate and orchestrate complex workloads across mainframe, hybrid cloud and cloud-native environments-from a single point of control.
Improve decision-making and reduce costs by centralizing management and eliminating manual activities as any unattended process can be scheduled on request or via events.
Monitor all enterprise processes from a single point of control to provide consolidation of operations team procedures, and integration with monitoring and alerting tools.
Improve observability through modern monitoring solutions employed by AI using open standards to enable collection of data through tools such as Instana for better control of your IT system.
Orchestration of IT and business workloads help improve decision-making by centralizing management of resources and optimize workloads in a hybrid deployment mode.
Use cases
Enables early detection of potential issues in scheduled jobs and workflows, providing alerts for anomaly detection and a UI for historical data analysis of jobs and work stations.
Anomaly detection in workloads with AI-powered data helps provide an enhanced operational experience.
A new modeling UI in the Dynamic Workload Console provides a unified access point to design every scheduling object.
A clean interface to define integration plug-in jobs that are available on the Automation Hub.
Fully understand the implications of a decision.
Enables early detection of potential issues in scheduled jobs and workflows, providing alerts for anomaly detection and a UI for historical data analysis of jobs and work stations.
Anomaly detection in workloads with AI-powered data helps provide an enhanced operational experience.
A new modeling UI in the Dynamic Workload Console provides a unified access point to design every scheduling object.
A clean interface to define integration plug-in jobs that are available on the Automation Hub.
Fully understand the implications of a decision.
Updated features
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.
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.
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.