Johannesburg, 01 Aug 2002
Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) today announced the general availability of Unicenter AutoSys Job Management (Unicenter AutoSys JM) 4.0, the industry`s most powerful and complete solution for automating the execution of critical application processes across today`s complex, heterogeneous enterprise computing environments.
With Unicenter AutoSys JM 4.0, companies can optimize the efficiency, performance and reliability of their IT operations by ensuring the execution of their increasingly interdependent application processes - regardless of the size, platform or complexity of those processes.
Enterprise job management has become a major challenge for larger organizations that have come to rely on an increasingly diverse range of applications to support highly sophisticated eBusiness processes. These applications include ERP systems, transaction processing systems, databases and dynamic web-based information portals. Unicenter AutoSys JM 4.0 directly addresses these challenges with a complete set of intuitively designed management functions that enable IT administrators to quickly and easily define when and how application tasks are executed.
"The ability to automate job execution in an integrated manner across all of our platforms is essential to optimize our investments in applications and infrastructure," said Asgar Rouhani, director at Telekurs, an international financial information services provider. "The latest enhancements to Unicenter AutoSys JM clearly demonstrate that CA fully understands the challenges that face IT operations teams as our environments become more complex and our information management goals become more ambitious."
With its new multi-process, multi-threaded architecture and graphical Java-based interface, Unicenter AutoSys JM 4.0 provides greater scalability and more intuitive administration than ever - enabling customers to easily manage their highly diverse application processes from a single point-of-control. This simplified, centralized control is essential for ensuring that jobs run reliably and that processing capacity across the enterprise is used for maximum business advantage. By enabling central control and administration across multiple platforms, Unicenter AutoSys JM 4.0 dramatically improves operational efficiency while minimizing costs.
"Unicenter AutoSys JM 4.0 redefines enterprise-wide job management with its new integration capabilities and additional platform support for Linux," said Parag Dave, senior technical officer at Paragon Global Technology Incorporated, a leading provider of job management services and products. "Compared with other job management solutions we have worked with, Unicenter AutoSys JM 4.0 sets a new standard of performance, scalability and usability."
Key Unicenter AutoSys JM 4.0 features include:
Enhanced Integration. Unicenter AutoSys JM 4.0 simplifies enterprise job management through direct integration with all components of the Unicenter Job Management Solution on a wide variety of platforms, including Linux.
Increased Performance and Scalability. Enhanced multi-process, multi-threaded architecture enables customers to run more jobs in parallel, significantly improving overall performance.
Java-Based Console. By providing a more graphical and intuitive browser interface, Unicenter AutoSys JM 4.0 makes it easier for IT operations managers to administer today`s highly complex processing environments from a single point-of-control, thereby accelerating time-to-benefit and maximizing ROI.
"The automation, integration and coordination of complex enterprise applications and business processes are among the most daunting challenges facing IT departments today," said David Hochhauser, CA`s vice president of marketing for Unicenter solutions. "As a strategic component of our Unicenter Enterprise Job Management Solution, Unicenter AutoSys JM 4.0 represents a major step forward in addressing these challenges - delivering significant, quantifiable improvements in the business value generated by current and future investments in applications, infrastructure and technical resources."
CA Services assistance is available to streamline deployment of Unicenter AutoSys JM 4.0, accelerating time-to-benefit and reducing transition workloads on IT personnel. The Unicenter AutoSys Starter Implementation Pack offers rapid implementation of a customer`s enterprise workload management solution, including on-site training. The Unicenter Autosys Healthcheck Assessment Pack is designed to provide valuable recommendations to help enhance the performance, reliability and maintainability of a customer`s existing Unicenter AutoSys environment.