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Optimizing Processes with Workload Scheduling - Client experiences
Suhail Aslam
Sales Director, Elyzium Ltd, UK
Batch What's Changed Workload Automation
• Time based
• Close Online Systems /
Applications
• Run Batch and Backups
• Restart Online Systems and
Applications
• 24/7 Global Economy
• Ebay
• Used to shutdown for
maintenance
• Real Time
• Event Driven
• Business Process Integration
Workload Automation brings together repeatable business
processes to make applications production ready and available 24/7
Good for the
IT
Organisation
Good for the
Developers
Good for the
Business
Workload Automation – isn’t that just batch?
Client Example without WLA
At 4pm daily, a Cron job runs to start a
data load
Initiate Job 1: ETL into data warehouse
Initiate Job 2: Generate marketing
analysis report
At 9pm daily a Cron job runs to delete
staging area
Campaign data received into staging
server
Customer problem: Data arrival & data processing exceptions
Solution proposed: ?
Client Example without WLA
At 4pm daily, a Cron job runs to start a
data load
Initiate Job 1: ETL into data warehouse
Initiate Job 2: Generate marketing
analysis report
At 9pm daily a Cron job runs to delete
staging area
Campaign data received into staging
server
Customer problem: Data arrival & data processing exceptions
Solution proposed: Back up the staging area & start data processing at 9am
Using the Event Trigger process in WLA
Event rule picks up the arrival of a file
Initiate Job 1: ETL into data warehouse
Initiate Job 2: Generate marketing
analysis report
Initiate Job 3: Clear staging area
SUCCESS
Campaign data received into staging
server
ALERT!!FAILURE
With TWS the business process is now completely integrated
Elyzium Worldwide WLA Survey
Technology
Government
Education
Finance
Retail
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Consulting
Media
Construction
“Workload Automation delivers
significant business benefits. Despite
this, Elyzium’s survey of 141 cross-
industry organisations confirms that
most are yet to implement it, and that
generally perception of risk factors
differs greatly from reality…” - Probal Sil,
Managing Director, Elyzium
WLA Survey - Key Findings
Organisations need to increase IT efficiency
Using multiple scheduling tools causes issues
The use of free scheduling tools is a false economy
Consolidated Workload Automation offers multiple benefits
Workload Automation in the Cloud is beneficial
WLA Survey - IT Priorities
70%
77%
Answered that improving IT
efficiency is a current priority.
Plan to standardise on WLA tools as
one way to help improve efficiency.
Client Experiences
The Customer
• Leading UK Insurance
• Trading for 175 years
• Tipped as one of the top 1000 organisations to help the UK economy grow
The Environment
• TWS Distributed
• TWS
• Cron
• Wintab
• Inbuilt applications schedulers
The Pains
• Lack of visibility
• No standards used amongst applications
• Cost of multiple environments
The Solution
• Flexible licence options
• Combination fof PVU and PJP
• Now looking at SaaS for devand sandpit environments
Flexible Licensing
PVU
PJP
Cloud
Processor Value Unit (PVU) Based Licensing
One time costExpensive for small numbers
of jobs
Per Job (PJP) Based Licensing
Lower cost of entry
Job monitoring process required
Ideal for servers with small
numbers of jobs
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Based Licensing
Lower cost of ownershipIdeal for development and
sandpit environments
WLA Survey - Consolidation
Cited cost as a prohibitive factor
to consolidation.69%
72% 49%
Public Sector Private Sector
VS
Client Experiences
The Customer
• Leading UK Bank
• Over 300 years
• Multiple acquisitions
The Environment
• z/OS & Distributed
• TWS
• Cron
• Multiple 3rd party schedulers
The Pains
• No single view of scheduling systems
• Lack of integrated reporting
• No view of dependencies across scheduling environments
• Not using Enhancements & improvements available in newer product versions
The Solution
• WLA assessment, migration & consolidation
• Single pain of glass provided by consolidated TWS environment
Batch Transformation Project
Success!
Operational Efficiency
Failure Reduction
Simplification
•Manual Intervention Reduction
•Scheduling Toolsets
•Operating Model
PR
OJ
EC
T G
OA
LS
WLA Survey - Consolidation
31%Answered that consolidation is
technically too difficult or risky to
the business.
Client Experiences
The Customer
• Retailer
The Environment
• Multiple distributed environments
• Multiple WLA Tools
• UC4
• CA
The Pains
• No standards
• Multiple teams managing the various tools
• Unable to meet SLA’s
The Solution
• WLA assessment, migration & consolidation
• Conversion of 100K jobs
• Optimised batch jobs leading to a reduction in jobs down to 35K
• Service assurance
Service Assurance
The Solution
• WLA assessment, migration & consolidation
• Conversion of 100K jobs
• Optimised batch jobs leading to a reduction in jobs down to 35K
• Service assurance
Client Experiences – Parcel Delivery
The Customer
• UK's leading consumer delivery specialist
• Handle more than 200 million parcels per year
• Range of flexible & affordable services
The Environment
• Distributed
• IBM TWS
• Cron
The Pains
• Meeting business demands
• Lack of visibility
• Lack of agility moving from Test to Production
• Demand from internal customers
The Solution
• WLA assessment, migration & consolidation
• Single pain of glass provided by consolidated TWS environment
• Implemented self-service catalog
• Service assurance
Top Strategies for WLA
Customers that have got the most out of TWS are using advanced features as they are introduced:
• Service Assurance
• Dynamic Scheduling
• Self Service Catalogue
• TWS Plugins, (SAP, SAP BO, Websphere MQ, Netezza, Datastge)
• Application Templates
Don’t just install it, use it!
• WLA is not just a tool for IT, it’s a critical business enabler.
• It automates key business processes and business users should be given access.
Empower your users!
• Mergers, Acquisitions and autonomy given to project teams has led to multiple WLA tools.
• As the drive for business processes to become seamless a single pane of glass is key.
Consolidate!
Key Resources & Information
Download the survey results
and discussion paper.
Watch the Elyzium & IBM Service
Management videos on YouTube.
Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter
Talk to us!
Contact Details
Suhail AslamElyzium Ltd
+44 7866 557686
www.Elyzium.co.uk www.workloadmigrator.com www.xpertcare.net www.jobexexecutor.com
WLA Strategy Summary
Consolidate multiple
tools
Empower your Users
Use advanced
WLA features
Use IBM plugins
Provide an API to app dev teams