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UC4 to Showcase Higher Education Solutions at EDUCAUSE 2008

UC4 Software, a leading global provider of workload automation, job scheduling and IT process optimization solutions, today announced that during EDUCAUSE 2008 it will demonstrate its Workload Automation Suite.    

• WHAT: UC4 showcasing higher education solutions at EDUCAUSE 2008  
• WHERE: Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL, Booth # 1523  
• WHEN: October 28-31, 2008  
• WHO: UC4 Executives and Experts
• WHY: UC4 will demonstrate how its solution brings additional value to higher education institutions by automating batch processing and report generation, eliminating server overload and improving output distribution. UC4’s Workload Automation Suite enhances the following solutions:  

SunGard Higher Education
UC4 is integrated with SunGard Higher Education Banner solution, enhancing the efficiency and automation of key areas of batch processing automation, centralized scheduling, and report distribution. UC4 offers the only scheduling solution that is a SunGard Higher Education Select Member.

UC4 enhances SunGard Higher Education through: ­       

• Boosting ROI through automation of batch processing and report generation
• Enabling more efficient processing in the areas of:
  • government financial aid file processing
  • transcript generation 
  • letter generation
  • check processing
  • student billing
  • cross-departmental processing ­       
• Preventing server overload  

PeopleSoft Process Scheduler
UC4 Software extends the power of PeopleSoft’s Process Scheduler by delivering a flexible centralized scheduler to control batch processing for enterprise applications across multiple operating platforms. With UC4’s Workload Automation Suite, it is possible to significantly improve on ROI for higher education institutions by reducing batch windows and automating output distribution.  

UC4 enhances PeopleSoft’s Process Scheduler through: ­       

• Accelerating process scheduling ­       
• Integrating with external applications ­       
• Centralizing process control ­       
• Managing reports        

In addition to SunGard and PeopleSoft, the UC4 Workload Automation Suite also interfaces with Oracle, SAP software and custom applications in the higher education market.  

About UC4 Software
UC4 Software is a leading global provider of workload automation, job scheduling and IT process optimization solutions that ensure core business processes and enterprise information systems run faster, more accurately and without interruption. More than 1,600 companies worldwide have successfully enhanced application processing performance and improved IT efficiency using UC4’s business acceleration solutions. Customers include American Suzuki Motor Corporation, Cadbury, eBay, Eastman Kodak, General Electric, Mattel, McGraw Hill, Panasonic, Robert Bosch, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, T-Systems and Verizon.