Computer Associates International, Inc (CA) today announced that it is shipping Unicenter AutoSys Job Management 4.0 (Unicenter AutoSys JM) to beta sites around the world. The new version enables clients to achieve unprecedented levels of operational efficiency and reliability by providing centralised, integrated control of application processes across even the largest and most complex IT environments.
CA is the world`s leading supplier of job management solutions with more than 40% of the worldwide market, according to IDC. Unicenter AutoSys JM 4.0 extends this technological and market leadership by delivering greater performance and ease-of-use, as well as superior ERP integration. Unicenter AutoSys JM is also a critical element of CA`s enterprise-wide job management strategy as it integrates with all CA job management tools on mainframe and distributed platforms.
"Unicenter AutoSys Job Management addresses the critical need for cross-platform scheduling and supports ERP processes by integrating the management of diverse business application processes," said Dexter Stark, president of CA`s St Louis AutoSys User Group. "These capabilities enable IT organisations to wrest maximum productivity from their finite information processing resources."
With a new multi-process and multi-threaded architecture and Java-based graphical user interface, Unicenter AutoSys JM 4.0 also provides a more intuitive administrative console and greater scalability than ever - enabling customers to more easily control highly diverse application processes from a single point-of-control. This simplified central control is essential for ensuring that jobs are run reliably on appropriate systems and that processing capacity across the enterprise is used for maximum business advantage.
"Today`s increasingly complex and dynamic IT infrastructures demand a new level of automated job management," said Michael Wooh, CA vice president, marketing, automated operations management. "With Unicenter AutoSys JM 4.0, CA has effectively addressed these new demands and is giving customers the most powerful and complete solution for administering application processes across the enterprise in a reliable, scalable and flexible manner."
Computer Associates International, Inc (NYSE: CA) delivers The Software That Manages eBusiness. CA`s world-class solutions address all aspects of e-business management through industry-leading brands: Unicenter for infrastructure management, BrightStor for storage management, eTrust for security management, CleverPath for portal and business intelligence, AllFusion for application life cycle management, Advantage for data management and application development, and Jasmine for object-oriented database technology. Founded in 1976, CA serves organisations in more than 100 countries, including 99% of the Fortune 500 companies. For more information, visit http://ca.com.
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