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ASG Launches Breakthrough Solution for Proactive Workload Automation
ASG's BSP Enterprise Workload Automation Ensures Execution of Critical Workloads by Adapting to Unplanned Events Across the Enterprise
| Source: ASG Software
NAPLES, FL--(Marketwire - December 1, 2009) - ASG Software
Solutions, the originator of ASG's
Business Service Portfolio™ (BSP) and a worldwide leader in business
solutions for global enterprises, today announced the general availability
of ASG's BSP Enterprise Workload Automation™, a solution
that automates real-time, event-based, and batch scheduling throughout the
enterprise. Integrating information across disparate platforms,
technologies, and applications, ASG's new enterprise workload automation
solution identifies all workload activities, including scheduled workloads
that are at risk due to problems in the IT infrastructure.
ASG's BSP Enterprise Workload Automation removes two persistent barriers to
making effective workload decisions: (1) lack of visibility into the actual
health of the complete scheduling environment due to heterogeneous,
incompatible scheduling tools that are scattered across mainframe,
distributed, and virtualized environments; and (2) little or no
understanding of how specific workloads impact service delivery levels to
the business.
Overcoming the limitations of traditional, time-and-date-based scheduling
tools, ASG's BSP Enterprise Workload Automation correlates workload
information throughout the enterprise and displays it in a single,
Web-based dashboard view. This real-time snapshot of the complete
operational environment gives IT administrators proactive updates on
complete service status, key application performance, and actual delivery
against
service-level metrics. ASG's BSP Enterprise Workload Automation also
automatically adapts to unplanned changes and events, ensuring the seamless
delivery of business services with minimal to no manual intervention.
News Facts
-- IT's "date-and-time" approach to job scheduling is no longer
sustainable, given today's increasingly complex business processes, which
cross multiple platforms and use data from different systems. Still,
disparate job scheduling tools for isolated tasks are the prevailing
reality for most organizations. More than 85 percent of large enterprises
have more than two uncorrelated job scheduling tools.
-- ASG has been recognized as a "top tier" workload automation vendor by
Forrester Research, Inc., based on its evaluation of
ASG-Zeke™ and
ASG-Zena™ (Market Overview: Workload Automation, Q3 2009, Forrester
Research, Inc., 9 Nov. 2009). These two technologies are featured in ASG's
BSP Enterprise Workload Automation solution.
-- ASG's BSP Enterprise Workload Automation is a Level 2 solution in ASG's Path to
Optimization program, a progressive program designed to help IT
executives leverage their current IT investments, complemented by ASG's BSP
solutions and best practices, to progress towards improved IT service
delivery and proactive Business Service Management (BSM).
Quotes
Andi Mann, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)
-- "Many vendors lay claim to Workload Automation but few provide a
complete solution -- incorporating, for example, consolidated job
scheduling, event-driven capabilities, ITSM and CMDB integration, and
business-aware workload management -- that is coordinated, easy to use, and
fast to implement. ASG Software meets all of these requirements to deliver
on the promise of tomorrow's automated data center with a visionary
Workload Automation solution."
Ed Hallock, Senior Director of Solutions Management, ASG
-- "With ASG's BSP Enterprise Workload Automation, we're helping our
customers and prospects overcome the traditional, 'islands of automation,'
multi-tool approach to job scheduling. Not only do they get a complete
picture of their workload environment, but they also gain insight into
what's happening at the infrastructure level. This allows them to identify
and resolve any emerging workload issues -- before they impact business."
Supporting Resources
Solution sheet
-- ASG's BSP Enterprise Workload Automation
White paper: "Business-Critical Benefits of Workload Automation Solutions," EMA,
Nov. 2009.
Webinar (on demand)
-- "The
Evolution From Job Scheduling to Workload Automation: Best Practices for a
More Intelligent Workload Automation Approach" (presented by EMA and
ASG)
About ASG | www.asg.com
ASG provides software solutions to more than 85 percent of the world's
largest companies. Through its comprehensive Business Service Management
(BSM) solution, Business Service Portfolio™, ASG is an established BSM
provider with a strong heritage in
metadata management;
information management;
applications management;
infrastructure,
performance and
operations management; and service and support technologies. ASG
enables clients to reduce costs, improve business-service delivery, and
reduce risks. Founded in 1986, ASG is a privately held company based in
Naples, Florida, USA, with more than 90 offices worldwide.