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Business Challenge
Mission critical business services are dynamic, facing many changes in high frequency. IT operations face a challenge, trying to adjust IT components to meet these dynamic business needs – proving efficiency, meeting service levels& reducing costs. Predicting in advance the behavior of batch services as a result of a business change or planned outage is critical when trying to deal with this challenge.
Business Need
- Assure the accuracy, priority and correctness of workflow executions all comply with business needs
- Predict the future impact of changes and new requirements on critical applications
- Avoid unplanned executions of processes which could result in business and continuity problems
- Identify workflow trends to improve the reliability and predictability of production processes
Our Solution
BMC CONTROL-M/Forecast is an extension to the CONTROL-M scheduling suite that provides prediction of batch processes expected flow - allowing deep analysis avoiding negative business results. By analyzing the expected future behavior of the batch environment at the enterprise level, you can identify in advance any unexpected or problematic batch process. Using CONTROL-M/Forecast, batch service planning inaccuracies can be identified, analyzed and resolved well in advance
Key Features & Benefits
- Forecasts the batch flow for a given future date, taking into consideration all CONTROL-M options and attributes, providing an estimated time window
- Provides wide filtering capabilities allowing each and every end user to focus on his business interests
- Allows running “what if” scenarios, visualizing the impact of optional changes to batch services
- Provides a visual calendar of the dates when the jobs are to be scheduled validating the accuracy of complicated scheduling rules
- Trend analysis graphical reports identifying peak time windows – assisting in load balancing workloads
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