How Can Workload Automation Help Me Align Enterprise IT Resources to Improve Service & Manage Risks?

SOLUTION BRIEF: CA WORKLOAD AUTOMATION
How can Workload
Automation help me
align enterprise IT
resources to improve
service and manage
risks and costs?CA Workload Automation brings a central
point of control and visibility to help assure
efficient, reliable and secure business
process management. It enables business
workload design across platforms and
operating systems, offering advanced
monitoring and automated responses to
changes and exceptions.
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Challenge Solution Benefits
Right now. Real time. On demand. CA is identified as the worldwide The ability to respond to real-timeWhatever the label, it's certain market revenue leader in Job business demands efficiently,that your customers, partners, Scheduling software for three reliably and securely is a key1managers and staff expect to be consecutive years by IDC . Our benefit of CA Workload Auto-able to transact business on their workload automation solution mation. It provides a centralized,terms. It could be a consumer's elevates your business to the next automated way to allocatecredit card purchase. A company- level - it unifies and simplifies resources, set priorities based onwide notice from Human workload management and business impact, and see andResources on benefits changes. monitoring, precisely choreograph- respond to changing businessThe reporting of online sales to ing each step toward event-driven requirements. Increased visibilitymanagement and distributors. responses to business demands. and automation acceleratesEach can require crossing CA Workload Automation problem resolution, helping youdisparate systems, platforms and coordinates the execution of avoid service level interruptionsapplications to retrieve and interconnected workloads across and related consequences. CA'sprocess relevant data. mainframe and distributed approach is self-healing and self-Interruptions along this intricate environments. Priorities and optimizing - so even the mostpath can compromise service, exceptions are automatically complex workloads get theheighten business risk and managed based on business resources essential to meetincrease costs. policies or service level business service level demands.agreements (SLAs).
CA Advantage CA Workload Automation is distinguished by its breadth of platform coverage, event-based architec-ture, intelligent resource management, flexible configuration, extent of automation offered and ease ofuse. For more than a decade, CA has been providing solutions for managing high volumes of complex,business-critical workloads across the enterprise . Built on a service-oriented architecture, CA WorkloadAutomation lets you expose workload functions and job flows as services to business applications.Advanced functions for workload prioritization and load balancing help you align workloads andresources to meet real-time business demands. Life cycle services and education ensure IT andbusiness alignment, decrease time to value, improve staff productivity and maximize the ROI.
Next Steps This is part of the CA commitment to Enterprise IT Management (EITM), which provides the founda-tion for building a truly business-centric IT organization. For more information on how CA WorkloadAutomation can help your business intelligently manage computing resources to respond to changingbusiness needs, visit us at ca.com/solutions.1 IDC Worldwide Systems Operations Software 2005 Vendor Shares, IDC# 203365, September 2006.
SOLUTION BRIEF: CA WORKLOAD AUTOMATION 1CHALLENGE Automate to reduce outages and eliminate costly interventions Customers, partners and employees put demands on business systems that must be met in atimely and reliable way. Most of these transactions traverse multiple systems and collect datafrom multiple sources. Yet most businesses are not prepared to manage these and otherinterdependencies at an enterprise level, making it difficult to coordinate business processesend-to-end. Root-cause analysis and resolution can be very difficult and time-consuming.Some IT resources are at capacity, while others are underutilized - and the result is a highertotal cost of ownership (TCO) and lower ROI.
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