IBM Workload Automation

End-to-end orchestration of complex, mission-critical workloads and workflows across hybrid environments

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Overview

Automation platform integrating IT, operational, and business workflows

IBM Workload Automation is an automation platform integrating IT, operational, and business workflows to optimize orchestration for the execution of unattended and event-driven processes built to operate in hybrid environments. IBM Workload Automation provides a single point of control for your automated activities with an intuitive user interface that enables users to model, manage, and monitor their workloads, enhanced with graphical views, embedded analytics, and customizable dashboards.

Features

Operate with insight and control

Enables early detection of potential issues in scheduled jobs and workflows, providing alerts for anomaly detection and a UI for historical data analysis of jobs and work stations.

Screenshot of Anomaly Analysis UI dashboard

Anomaly detection in workloads with AI-powered data helps provide an enhanced operational experience and enterprise observability.

Improve observability through modern monitoring solutions employed by AI using open standards to enable collection of data through tools such as Instana for better control of your IT system.

Screenshot of AI Data Advisor UI dashboard

A new modeling UI in the Dynamic Workload Console provides a unified access point to design every scheduling object.

Improve decision-making and reduce costs by centralizing management and eliminating manual activities as any unattended process can be scheduled on request or via events.

Screenshot of Workload Designer UI dashboard

A clean interface to define integration plug-in jobs that are available on the Automation Hub.

Screenshot of Job definition UI dashboard

Fully understand the implications of a decision.

Screenshot of What-if Analysis UI dashboard

Use cases

Put automation into action

Single point of control

Monitor all enterprise processes from a single point of control to provide consolidation of operations team procedures, and integration with monitoring and alerting tools.

 
Resource management and optimization

Orchestration of IT and business workloads help improve decision-making by centralizing management of resources and optimize workloads in a hybrid deployment mode.

 

 
Advanced visibility with artificial intelligence

Unlock deep visibility into your job environments with IBM Bob & IBM watsonx Orchestrate — including comprehensive insights into engines, jobs, job streams, and workstations.
Proactive incident detection, resolution, remediation

Proactively detect and resolve job issues through real-time monitoring, intelligent alerts, and automated recovery, reducing downtime and manual effort.

Case studies

Legal & General

To cut business risk and enable future-facing services, Legal & General partnered with Elyzium to migrate the core applications underpinning its pensions business to the Microsoft Azure cloud. Tightly integrated with the company’s on-premises IBM Z® environment through IBM® Workload Automation, the new cloud solution boosts development efficiency by 30%, slashing time to market for new services.

30%
boost in development efficiency
Moving to a modern cloud platform cuts time-to-market for new services
4-hour
recovery time objective achieved
Mitigates the risk of downtime with robust disaster recovery capabilities
Read the Legal & General case study
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Integrations

160+ out of box integration plugins and how it’s used

Connect and de-risk with an ecosystem of integration at zero additional cost.
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Automate SAP workloads

Provide a single point of control using IBM Workload Scheduler to manage and monitor SAP and non-SAP applications including governance of SAP environments, data integration, and more.
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Control Salesforce batch jobs

Workload Automation integrates with Salesforce to gain greater control of your Salesforce batch APEX jobs. Govern and coordinate automated Salesforce processing with enterprise resource management applications.
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Automate Oracle PeopleSoft workloads

Your entire ERP ecosystem benefits from Workload Automation’s ability to maintain a seamless, consistent workflow from one function to another, standardizing processes and reducing overhead costs.

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