{"id":3191,"date":"2012-08-23T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2012-08-23T07:00:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T15:00:30","slug":"technology-workflow-automation-leveling-the-ebb-and-flow-of-resource-utilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/technology-workflow-automation-leveling-the-ebb-and-flow-of-resource-utilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology: Workload Automation, Leveling the Ebb and Flow of Resource Utilization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Businesses are pushing hard on their business applications, big data, business analytics, cloud computing and mobile projects \u00a0to help them run their businesses better. \u00a0Companies are trying to improve both efficiency and accuracy. \u00a0New business software tool features are increasingly crunching more numbers and taking more compute cycles than in the past. \u00a0There are more background jobs, automated tasks, and business rules firing off high-compute processes. \u00a0But the problem is that the combination of many scheduled and dynamic automated jobs combined with the normal ebb and flow of users working on IT systems can make for a very complex problem of how to optimally use computing resources.<\/p>\n

As new software is rolled out, increasingly there is the potential for conflicts and collisions between applications, users and automated tasks becomes greater. \u00a0The study from BMC suggests that companies using multiple automation run into some kind of problem, like file loss, job failures and the frequent manual intervention in automation processes. \u00a0As amny as 90 percent of companies using multiple automation tools have run into these kinds of problems.<\/p>\n

Workload automation job schedulers try to address these problems by reacting to and rescheduling work in real-time based on dynamic demands coming from all applications and processes, all system platforms used, and all system operating systems. \u00a0Major vendors of Workload Automation software include companies like IBM<\/a>, BMC <\/a>and CA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Businesses understand and value benefits which they derive from implementations of workload automation. \u00a0Some of the benefits which users cite in the BMC study<\/a> include:<\/p>\n