ASG's New Workload Management Offering Simplifies Automation and Scheduling Across Diverse Platforms By VSM News Staff published: Tuesday, May 19 2009
Solution Provides Proactive Workflow Automation and Management
for Cost-Effective Control of IT Operations
NAPLES, Fla. (May 19, 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 Distributed Workload Management, which allows IT operations managers to
effectively monitor, manage, and automate the scheduling and execution of
critical distributed workloads in real time. The solution, offered at a value-based
price point, equips companies to manage traditional scheduling tools across
multiple platforms without the significant manual labor and costly delays to daily
business operations and workflow that typically accompany this challenge.
ASG's BSP Distributed Workload Management has already
been selected by one of the largest international automobile manufacturers to
unify its workload scheduling across multiple platforms, in both distributed and
mainframe environments. ASG's BSP Distributed Workload Management is quickly
being integrated with the manufacturer's current job scheduling
environments, enabling 10,000 production jobs to be scheduled per day and ensuring
real-time business activities, such as processing credit applications and
closing orders, are achieved continuously to maintain business workflow.
Highlights
ASG's BSP Distributed Workload
Management cost-effectively monitors the throughput of workloads in a
distributed computing environment while providing unmatched data collection and
correlation capabilities across multiple platforms, technologies, applications,
and business services.
The flexible and scalable
architecture integrates seamlessly with existing ASG solutions or third-party
technologies, delivering a solution that can grow with existing and future IT
investments. Capabilities include:
- Integrating with diverse
applications, including SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Micro Focus, and Siebel, and
legacy applications, such as ERP, .NET, J2EE;
- Supporting multiple platform and
operating systems, including Windows NT/2000/XP, UNIX, and Linux;
- Supporting workloads running in
physical and virtual environments.
ASG's BSP Distributed Workload
Management is classified as a Level 2 solution in ASG's "Path to Optimization," 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).
The solution's customizable,
dynamic dashboards identify all workload activities, including the scheduled
workloads that are at risk due to problems in the IT infrastructure, while
monitoring the overall health of both the scheduling environment and supported
business services. The dashboard presents workload-correlated data and detailed
metrics in a unified way to proactively identify potential problem areas and
resolve issues before they impact businesses.
A single, Web-based interface provides
a complete view of the service status, application performance, and service-level
metrics so IT operators can easily isolate problems and measure impacts on key
schedules and service deliveries.
About ASG
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 PortfolioTM, 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. www.asg.com
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