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"Tidal Software is a leading provider of application
scheduling and performance management software that
radically simplifies IT operations by automating and integrating performance and process management."
Source : Tidal Software
Simple Batch Scheduling through Consolidation and Automation
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Simplify batch scheduling through
consolidation and automation
The people in your IT organization may ind
themselves in a situation similar to that of Lucille Ball
in a classic comedy sketch. In that sketch, Lucy begins
a new job packing candy on a production assembly line.
Things start out okay, but then the line speeds up and
more and more items appear on the line. The situation
quickly degrades and candy lies in all directions as
Lucy tries unsuccessfully to keep up.
IT organizations are struggling to keep up with
batch scheduling as batch windows shrink, and more
and more jobs are added to a growing number of
platforms. Complicating the problem is that the IT staff
has to deal with a wide variety of disparate platforms,
applications, and databases. That means grappling with
a large number of siloed batch scheduling tools and
consoles.
A substantial portion of today's business processes
leverage batch operations. So it's essential to keep your
batch production line running smoothly in order to keep
your business running smoothly. To meet the challenge,
you need to simplify, consolidate, and automate batch
scheduling.
Tidal Enterprise Scheduler Provides a
Solution
Tidal Software provides just the solution you need
' Tidal Enterprise Scheduler. With this advanced
batch scheduling solution, you can proactively manage
all your batch processes across the enterprise from
a single pane of glass. This comprehensive solution
meets the needs of even the largest enterprises, easily
handling hundreds of thousands of tasks a day across a
wide variety of platforms, applications, and databases.
Whether you are consolidating your data center
operations, moving applications to more cost-effective
platforms, transitioning from customized to packaged
applications, or just want to simplify batch scheduling,
Tidal Enterprise Scheduler can help. With Enterprise
Scheduler, you can:
- Simplify and lower the cost of batch management
with a single, intuitive graphical user interface
across all batch processes
- Increase the productivity and eficiency of your
operations staff by automating batch scheduling
tasks
- Improve service levels while reducing costs with a
proactive approach to batch management
- Minimize the risk of failed jobs with intelligent
scheduling that validates the availability of all
required resources to perform required tasks before
starting a batch process
Simplify, Consolidate, Automate
With Tidal Enterprise Scheduler, you can move up
to a proactive approach to batch management, one in
which you manage by exception. That frees up a great
deal of staff time that can be used for more strategic
endeavors.
Enterprise Scheduler delivers a number of advanced
capabilities that enable you to simplify, consolidate,
and automate batch scheduling. Capabilities include
simplified management, broad and deep coverage,
streamlined job migration, and real-time intelligent
scheduling. Tidal Software complements this
comprehensive solution with consulting services that
provide you with broad and deep domain expertise in
batch management. Tidal experts are available to help
you get up and running quickly and to realize the full
value of Tidal Enterprise Scheduler.
Simplified Management
Tidal Enterprise Scheduler permits you to manage
all batch operations from a single pane of glass '
across all your platforms, applications, and databases.
That single pane provides an easy-to-use graphical
interface that brings unprecedented simplicity to batch
scheduling.
No longer will your scheduling staff have to struggle
with multiple tools and arcane scripts. Instead, users
can take advantage of simple graphical operations to
set up even the most complex jobs, such as jobs that
involve synchronization across multiple, heterogeneous
resources. What's more, you can capture run book
operational instructions and restart procedures and
store them with your job deinitions. So you can ensure
that your operations staff consistently follows your
company's best practices.
You also get an up to the minute view of the status of
all existing jobs. In addition, you see a mapping of batch
tasks to the business processes they support, so you can
gain insight into the business implications of all batch
tasks. Because of the familiar Microsoft Explorer-like
interface, you can involve your business users in batch
scheduling to ensure close alignment between IT and
the business.
Broad and Deep Coverage
Tidal Enterprise Scheduler accommodates even
the most diverse data centers. The solution covers
both distributed and mainframe platforms, including
Windows®, UNIX®, Linux®, z/OS®, OS/400®,
Tandem®, and OVMS®. It seamlessly integrates with
leading ERP, SCM, and CRM applications, including
SAP®, PeopleSoft Enterprise®, Oracle E-Business
Suite, and Informatica® ' without requiring the
installation of code on your production systems. It also
integrates with custom business applications, with
leading backup and ETL (Extraction Transformation
and Loading) solutions, and with reporting engines.
The broad coverage provided by Enterprise
Scheduler is especially useful if you are migrating
applications or databases to different platforms. For
example, you may be consolidating applications onto
more powerful servers or moving applications to more
cost-effective operating platforms. With Enterprise
Scheduler, you can manage scheduling on both the
source and the target platforms during the migration
' all from a single pane of glass. Think of how that
will smooth the transition. What's more, you can easily
revert to a previous platform coniguration if you run
into problems in migration.
In addition to breadth of coverage, Tidal
Enterprise Scheduler provides depth of coverage.
Tidal development engineers have extensive domain
expertise on all supported platforms, applications,
and databases. As a result, they have built rich
functionality into Enterprise Scheduler that fully
exploits the capabilities of these platforms, applications,
and databases with respect to batch scheduling and
management.
Streamlined Job Migration
One thing you can count on in any IT environment
is continual change … additions and changes to
applications, to databases, and to the IT infrastructure,
as well as updates to your batch scheduling tools. That
means you have to add and change batch processes to
ensure continuing operation.
To minimize risk, you need to test your new or
changed batch scheduling jobs before releasing
them to production. That typically means testing in
a development environment, then testing in a QA
environment, and inally promoting the jobs to the
production environment. Migrating jobs manually from
one environment to the next can be a tedious, time-
consuming, and error-prone task.
Enterprise Scheduler provides a solution ' Tidal
Transporter ' that streamlines batch job migration.
This advanced tool automatically exports batch jobs
from one environment to another. It determines
whether the target platform can accommodate the
new process (and notifies you if it can't). It then makes
any changes to the job necessitated by the change in
platform, such as coniguration changes.
No longer will you have to go through the agonizing
process of manually recreating jobs as you move
between platforms. You can move thousands of
scheduler deinitions ' including jobs, job classes, job
groups, calendars, events, actions and variables ' in
minutes. What's more, if you run into problems, Tidal
Transporter permits you to quickly and easily roll back
the target platform to its previous state. Transporter
also maintains a log of all migrations and the versions
involved, providing an audit trail for regulatory
compliance purposes.
Real-time, Intelligent Scheduling
Traditional scheduling tools operate based on a
static schedule, blindly kicking off batch jobs according
to the schedule. Tidal Enterprise Scheduler introduces
a whole new way of scheduling jobs. In addition to
initiating jobs based on a static set of rules, Enterprise
Scheduler can initiate jobs based on real time events
such as a the arrival of a business partner's database
update.
The innovation of this advanced solution does
not end with real-time scheduling but also includes
intelligent scheduling. Before initiating a job,
Enterprise Scheduler irst makes sure that the target
application and platform are capable of running the
job at that time. It automatically checks such factors
as: Is the application up and running at that time?
Are there suficient resources available to run the job
without seriously dragging down the performance of the
application? If the scheduler determines that it cannot
run the job immediately, it does not initiate the job and
notiies the appropriate people of the problem.
A Complete Solution
The Tidal team has deep domain expertise in
enterprise automation. You can tap this expertise
through Tidal Consulting Services to help you get up
and running quickly with Tidal Enterprise Scheduler.
Tidal consultants help you design and deploy your
uniied enterprise batch scheduling system based
on Enterprise Scheduler. The consultants leverage
automated tools to quickly migrate batch job deinitions
from your existing schedulers to Tidal Enterprise
Scheduler. What's more, the consultants work with your
scheduling team to ensure that team members can
fully leverage the advanced capabilities of Enterprise
Scheduler to gain maximum value.
For More Information
To find out more about how Tidal Enterprise
Scheduler can help you consolidate, automate, and
simplify your batch scheduling processes, contact Tidal
Software at 1-877-55-TIDAL or visit www.tidalsoftware.com
About Tidal Software™
Tidal Software is a leading provider of application
scheduling and performance management software
that radically simpliies IT operations by automating
and integrating performance and process management.
Tidal's solution puts IT operations management into
the business process using new levels of automation,
visibility, and control over systems. Tidal makes
applications such as SAP®, PeopleSoft®, and Oracle
E-business Suite™ more eficient, reliable, and secure
to return greater business value. Tidal also gives
IT deep visibility into and precise control over new
SOA-based composite solutions consisting of packaged
applications and custom components in Java and .NET.
General Mills, HP, ING Direct, Microsoft and T-Mobile
are among the Tidal customers who use Tidal to reduce
operational costs by running IT at higher eficiency
rates and containing overall data center footprints.
Privately held, Tidal is venture-backed by Kleiner
Perkins Cauield & Byers, Novus Ventures, Panorama
Capital, and VantagePoint Venture Partners.