Automated Job Scheduling: Speeding Time to Value of Enterprise Applications and SOA

Businesses are rushing to develop new software applications that capitalize on the new market opportunities, business models and operational efficiencies opened up by the Internet. However, the complexity of these new applications, in particular the integration of real-time processes with batch processes, makes the applications very challenging to deploy and support.

Join EMA Analyst Andi Mann and discover how enterprise job scheduling can make today's complex enterprise applications more effective and efficient, as well as help smooth the move to SOA.

Topics include:

• The specific application integration challenges posed by Java, Web services, and message-oriented middleware.
• Why batch application integration (BAI) is critical to the success of composite applications and service-oriented architectures
• How enterprise job scheduling can help you achieve BAI
• The three biggest business benefits of the "workload automation broker" approach.
• How and where to build job-scheduling automation into enterprise applications.
• How automated job scheduling increases the effectiveness of service level management and other business service management processes.