Data center optimization through event driven process automation
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IT organizations aim to reduce data center costs through automation. SAP Central Job Scheduling provides a central point to automate and integrate application processes across SAP and non-SAP systems. It offers event-driven automation to improve operations by triggering workflows in response to business events. For example, at Actebis it automated order fulfillment so orders could be processed as soon as they were received, helping the company achieve its goal of 100% next-day order fulfillment. SAP Central Job Scheduling helps optimize resources, improve throughput, and reduce costs through centralized automation across the enterprise.
Data center optimization through event driven process automation
- 1. Data Center Optimization Through Event-Driven Process Automation: Enhanced Real- Time, Event-Driven Management of SAP and Non-SAP Systems Automating Operations Across Environments IT organizations have always looked for ways to reduce the cost of running the corporate data center. Many technologies exist to make this a realistic goal, and the starting point is automation. Like most IT-related functions, automation is not a new idea and various aspects such as data backup and environmental control have been automated for years. There is an increasing focus on the move toward consolidation of automated operations across disparate environments and platforms. The key here is process automation: the provision of a central point for integrating and controlling the execution of application processes — in the right order and under the right conditions. SAP Central Job Scheduling by Redwood, a core integrated component of the SAP NetWeaver® stack, is one of the latest applications available from SAP. It provides SAP customers with a central point of control for all IT workload processing — not just within the SAP landscape but also across non-SAP applications and operating-system-level tasks. Increasing System Performance, Reducing Hardware Costs SAP Central Job Scheduling by Redwood offers customers the ability to increase productivity, reduce hardware costs, and increase system performance by delivering on key objectives such as “lights out” operations, data center optimization, “fast close” end-of-period processing, and streamlined consolidation of multiple SAP implementations. Now, your IT organization can move toward the kind of reliability and flexibility that is critical to reduce manual intervention and improve resource utilization; for example: Richard Page Sr. VP Global Marketing Redwood Software
- 2. Integration of processing across disparate environments Parallel processing to reduce elapsed time and latency Dynamic scheduling allowing real-time adjustments to workload based on conditions prevailing at the time of and during execution Optimization of IT resources by dynamically balancing workload across the available systems, including support for SAP Adaptive Computing and Grid environments Detection of failed processes and context-specific automated recovery actions Real-time business event-driven processing Architecture for SAP Central Job Scheduling by Redwood Improving Data Center Operations Through Automation Event-driven process automation is where real innovation can be applied to take data center optimization even further. SAP Central Job Scheduling by Redwood removes the boundaries imposed by time- and date-based scheduling solutions. The occurrence of actionable business events such as an online user transaction, an incoming file transfer of a customer order, or the receipt of an email can be used to trigger subsequent workload processing in the context of the event that has occurred. Thus, the processes required to fulfill an order for a specific customer can be executed as soon as the order is received, not at some artificially defined “end-of-day batch-processing” time. Chains of related tasks can be constructed to optimize workflow and reflect business requirements, breaking down the communication barriers that previously existed between applications and environments. In this example, the benefits are that the customer receives his or her order more quickly, contention for processing is spread throughout the day, optimum use is made of the available resources, and background-
- 3. processing window requirements are reduced. See the Actebis sidebar for an example of how a real customer achieved this. Actebis Improves Order Fulfillment with SAP Central Job Scheduling by Redwood IT and telecommunications equipment distributor Actebis receives in excess of 5,000 orders a day. In a highly competitive market with demanding customers expecting prompt delivery, Actebis recognized that it needed a solution that would help it achieve 100 percent next-day order fulfillment. The real-time, event-driven capabilities of SAP Central Job Scheduling by Redwood enable orders to be passed to the warehouse application for processing as soon as they arrive, having a significant positive impact on the business and helping Actebis to achieve its business goals. The advanced automation techniques provided by SAP Central Job Scheduling by Redwood and implemented by Redwood Software enable SAP customers to create a centralized automation infrastructure that lays the foundation for fully optimizing single or distributed corporate data centers and provide efficiencies that reduce costs and increase productivity. Benefits of SAP Central Job Scheduling by Redwood Increases productivity, simplifies cross-enterprise management, and reduces training needs: Provides a single interface for management of all IT workload including full integration with SAP Solution Manager Reduces risk of errors and increases throughput: Enables automated workload processing across all environments and composite applications Streamlines processing and increases service-level compliance: Delivers integration across all SAP, non-SAP, and composite applications Improves overall operational efficiency: Permits integration with operating-system- level workload (such as system backup) Improves responsiveness: Provides real-time, event-driven workload automation based on external activities such as incoming file transfers, business and system events, or environmental metrics (CPU load or paging rates) Optimizes resource utilization, throughput, and service-level compliance: Delivers high availability and dynamic balancing of workload across all available resources Reduces the time needed to detect and respond to exceptions: Permits automated error recovery across related applications plus integration with systems management frameworks
- 4. For more information visit: www.sap.com/centraljobscheduling.