Infrastructure Integration

UC4 Workload Automation Suite offers you rich functionality that allows your organization to fully leverage enterprise technologies. Key infrastructure integration features include:

Comprehensive Operating System Support
Now you can centralize management of workload executing on UNIX, LINUX, J2EE, Windows, z/OS, BS2000, OS/400, OpenVMS, HP NSK and all other platforms to simplify operations. There is no need for IT staff to learn VI, cron, Perl, TSO or other proprietary tools—all systems can be managed from the same console. Business benefits as seamless execution of cross-platform workload reduces turnaround times and increases throughput.
 
Enterprise Application Connectivity
Manage and control workload executed by business applications using certified and proven interfaces to SAP, Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, SunGard Banner Higher Education and other packaged solutions. Integrate with your DW/BI tools, legacy and custom applications. Automate passing of parameters to jobs and access to report files. Our non-invasive end-to-end process management streamlines your workload.

Virtualization
We help your business gain new flexibility by managing the physical enterprise assets as logical resources. By replacing hard-wired settings embedded in job plans and process templates, processing can be dynamically extended to run on additional servers as and when they become available—providing extra capacity to overcome periodic peaks such as month-end.

High Availability
Non-stop workload distribution maximizes utilization of available resources, and your jobs are automatically re-routed when hardware errors occur allowing processing to continue without interruption. In-built fault tolerance and resilience ensure high availability with no need for third-party tools.

Scalable Architecture
Your business has unique needs. Maybe you need to drive extremely high volume processing with a platform already running millions of jobs each day. Or, maybe you need to manage parallel execution of workload and dependencies across multiple, heterogeneous operating platforms simultaneously. Either way, you can define repeatable process that can be centrally maintained and scaled to support thousands of instances and leverage a unique architecture that fits today’s needs and can accommodate tomorrow’s business growth. 

Dynamic Workload Management
Assigning different priorities and queue management ensures business-critical tasks get high priority while large reporting jobs get low priority and do not bog down servers in the middle of a busy day. Work can be dynamically routed to servers based on the prevailing conditions at run-time, enabling optimal business throughput and IT resource utilization.

Single Instance Landscape
Control development, testing, Quality Assurance, User Acceptance Testing and production systems in the same environment. Simplify and mitigate business risk when migrating workload through the implementation life-cycle. Maintain a full audit of all change activity.

IT Systems Management Integration
Integrate managing batch workload with other operations tasks using proven interfaces to existing enterprise systems management frameworks, including HP OpenView, BMC Patrol and Tivoli. Minimize your system downtime by synchronizing IT housekeeping tasks such as database backups and reorgs with other tasks using event-driven processing.

Web Services
Invoke and monitor asynchronous workload from J2EE applications using WSDL, SOAP and JMS Web Service calls. Schedule EJBs and other Java processing with BPEL, RMI and JMX requests. Ensure that workload automation is not forgotten as a part of SOA strategy and that business value is fully realized from current IT assets by exposing strategic applications as Web Services.