Telekurs USA saves hundreds of thousands of dollars with CA`s AutoSys

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) has announced that Telekurs (USA), a leading provider of international securities data to financial institutions worldwide, is saving hundreds of thousands of dollars by using CA`s AutoSys to automate the job scheduling that previously required three full-time staff members.

Telekurs is also using AutoSys to customize file creation and delivery, and provide customers with the interactive reporting services their businesses require, freeing IT personnel for more strategic tasks.

Stamford, Connecticut-based Telekurs (USA), provides realtime and intraday pricing information and corporate actions information on global securities to its client base of financial institutions in the U.S. and Canada, as well as to its parent company, Telekurs Financial, for distribution worldwide.

"AutoSys has quickly become the heartbeat of our data centre," said Walter Beddoe, vice president of Information Technology, Telekurs (USA). "With AutoSys, we can assure clients of on-time, error-proof file delivery around the clock and can compete successfully against larger organizations - many of whom cannot match our reliability and speed."

AutoSys has also enabled Telekurs` staff to centralize the management of jobs across its UNIX and Windows NT environments, freeing personnel for other IT-related tasks. The staff monitors and controls the progress of multiple jobs from a single console, further simplifying management tasks and optimizing resources. AutoSys` job load balancing capabilities ensure the most effective use of Telekurs` computing resources, helping to prevent system downtime.

The automated error reporting of AutoSys, a critical function that enables staff to detect and remedy problems that may affect the completion of a job, has proven key to the company`s ability to deliver on its quality assurance commitments. For additional fault tolerance, the staff relies on the AutoSys self-correcting job control feature, with automated restart, recovery, and re-queuing capabilities, to achieve uninterrupted job processing.

Telekurs` staff uses AutoSys customizable reporting tools to provide clients with interactive reporting services based on their specific requirements. Some clients prefer to receive status and exception reports before and after a job has executed; others request notification of exceptions via pager and email. The flexibility of AutoSys enables staff to custom-fit these services, creating additional competitive advantage.