Optimizing Processes with Workload Scheduling - Client experiences

Suhail Aslam

Sales Director, Elyzium Ltd, UK

Agenda

2

Introduction

Workload Automation

Client Experiences

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

WLA Survey - Consolidation

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.

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Talk to us!

Contact Details

Suhail AslamElyzium Ltd

suhail.aslam@elyzium.co.uk

+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

Thanks for your time.

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