AppWorx Workload Automation automates your Ellucian’s Banner or Fiserv DNA processing. This innovative, best-in-class task scheduling solution accelerates your processing, provides visibility and control over business processes, and mitigates risk in both environments.
AppWorx Workload Automation Can:
- Automate banner processes without writing scripts
- Automate testing
- Document process flows and procedures
- Maintain a history and audit trail of production runs
- Automate migration from development to test to production environments
- Reduce training
- Eliminate human errors associated with manual tasks
Benefits of AppWorx Workload Automation For Your Ellucian’s Banner
- Automate recurring business processes, such as administration and record-keeping, while complying with state and federal reporting requirements.
- Batch jobs are processed accurately.
- If there are any inconsistencies or job failures, Automic for Banner immediately sends email notifications to the appropriate personnel.
- Significantly improve your return on investment.
- Automating batch processing and report generation.
- Eliminating server overload by using a combination of features (AppWorx provides queues to control the number of jobs that can be submitted to a server at any given time, can spot duplicate runs of the same reports, and can delay impromptu reports submitted by individuals until all regularly scheduled reports are processed, etc.).
- Eliminates the need for developers to write shell, PERL, or batch scripts to automate scheduling.
- Automatically keeps a history of every job run, the parameters that were used, and the output generated at each step. These records are readily available for viewing online and can be printed for reference.
- Export and import utilities make migration an error-free, repeatable process. Database logins, printers, and libraries can be mapped when you are moving process flows to a new environment. Mapping eliminates potentially erroneous code changes.
Benefits of AppWorx Workload Automation For Your Fiserv DNA Processing
- Run DNA jobs directly, eliminating the need to copy and release queues for each batch cycle.
- Automatically run DNA jobs at the optimum time using sophisticated scheduling.
- Run multiple DNA jobs at the same time in parallel from one batch station.
- Eliminate potential data entry errors by automatically retrieving parameters from your enterprise databases.
- Automatically check the results from one step to ensure data integrity before continuing to the next step.
- Alert production analysts to problems the instant they occur.
- Coordinate processing steps across all software applications.
- Automatically distribute output files to vendors.
- Perform all operations from one GUI client.
Reviews from Real Users
“The most valuable feature for me is the scheduling,” says an enterprise application architect at a retailer who has been using the solution for close to 10 years.
A manager at a tech services company adds that “The interface is good. The compliance-related features are very good.”
Automic Automation is employed for migration assistance, digital business automation, integration with platforms, ITIL process workflows, batch processing, disaster recovery, scheduling ERP batch jobs, and automation within finance and telecom sectors.
Businesses implement Automic Automation across on-premises and cloud infrastructures, supporting SAP, mainframes, host systems, and other environments. Valued for its versatility and out-of-the-box integration capabilities, it enhances automation efficiency and reduces operational costs. The platform is known for its robust object-oriented workflow, zero-downtime upgrades, CI/CD pipeline integration, and multi-client architecture. Enhanced stability, scalability, user-friendliness, and compliance are notable benefits.
What are the key features?
- Versatile Scheduler: Manage complex schedules effortlessly.
- Object-Oriented Workflow: Robust and flexible workflow management.
- Zero-Downtime Upgrades: Continuous operation without interruptions.
- CI/CD Integration: Seamless incorporation into development pipelines.
- Multi-Client Architecture: Supports diverse and multiple client environments.
- Unique Scripting Language: Enhances customizability and automation.
- Predictive Analytics: Improved job execution and performance insights.
- Intuitive GUI: Simplifies job and workflow management.
What benefits or ROI should be evaluated?
- Enhanced Stability: Reliable operations across environments.
- Scalability: Easily adapts to growing business needs.
- Reduced Operational Costs: Streamlined automation processes lower expenses.
- Compliance Assurance: Ensures adherence to regulations and standards.
Automic Automation is widely used in finance and telecom industries, addressing unique challenges and demands. It integrates with Broadcom products and supports SAP environments, ensuring well-rounded automation and operational efficiency. While technical support and vendor assistance could improve, businesses find value in its scheduling, deployment options, and workflow visibility. The industry's capability to manage cloud systems and SaaS deployment helps in mitigating disaster recovery issues and facilitates smoother ITIL process workflows.
Tidal Software is a leading provider of enterprise workload automation solutions that orchestrate the execution of complex workflows across systems, applications and IT environments. With a comprehensive portfolio of products and services, Tidal optimizes mission-critical business processes, increases IT cost efficiencies and satisfies legal and regulatory compliance requirements. Hundreds of customers around the world count on Tidal for modernizing their workload automation and driving their digital transformation. Tidal Software is headquartered in Chicago with offices in Houston, London, Minsk, Belarus and Chennai, India. For more information, visit tidalsoftware.com.
