Beyond Job Scheduling
The Road to Enterprise Process Automation
The rapid pace of today’s business environment has created demand for a new breed of tool to automate business processes. This new breed of tool must go beyond the world of scripting and simple time-based events, venturing into a new realm where applications and events can be driven dynamically in response to constantly changing business conditions.
The new global business environment, and in particular the Internet with its implied on-line, real-time, 24x7 operation has dramatically altered this rigid notion of job scheduling. The idea of having batch processes with a multitude of similar transactions that are processed at night is still relevant in many cases, but there are many other examples where traditional time-based, operations centric ‘job scheduling’ is wholly inadequate. New solutions are required that can automate and accelerate existing business processes and adapt to new processes and systems as they arise.


