Monitor, Manage and Master! Take Charge of Your SAP and Cross-Enterprise Workloads from a Single Dashboard!
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The document discusses CA Workload Automation's integration capabilities with SAP environments, highlighting the need for centralized management and monitoring of both SAP and non-SAP workloads. It outlines the challenges faced in SAP job scheduling, such as inefficiencies and lack of visualization, and presents the benefits of a unified solution that enhances process execution and simplifies operations. The presentation emphasizes the importance of automation in improving staff efficiency, governance, and overall business process visibility.
Monitor, Manage and Master! Take Charge of Your SAP and Cross-Enterprise Workloads from a Single Dashboard!
- 2. 2 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD © 2016 CA. All rights reserved. All trademarks referenced herein belong to their respective companies. The content provided in this CA World 2016 presentation is intended for informational purposes only and does not form any type of warranty. The information provided by a CA partner and/or CA customer has not been reviewed for accuracy by CA. For Informational Purposes Only Terms of this Presentation
- 4. 4 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Agenda OVERVIEW CHALLENGES CA WORKLOAD AUTOMATION (CA WA) ADVANCED INTEGRATION FOR SAP - BENEFITS Q & A 1 2 3 4
- 6. 6 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD The Application Economy and SAP § Increased demand for automating enterprise-wide business processes across a vast array of applications § Need to extend existing SAP applications into multi-platform environments or create new cloud-based applications § Need to improve what staff and partners experience in monitoring your SAP landscape: – Change requests – Implementations and upgrades – Service levels and application performance metrics § Requires a scheduling system that can trigger applications and business processes when a business event occurs
- 9. 9 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD SAP Workload-Specific Challenges § Unable to extend the scheduling capabilities of SAP to both SAP and non-SAP jobs § Can’t monitor the statuses of submitted workloads and visualize end-to-end business processes from one central location § Switching between schedulers to manage and monitor end-to end workloads § Manual process to start, wait and finish for a non-SAP job to complete as a part of a greater SAP Business Warehouse process chain § No central location to document all jobs
- 10. 10 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Job scheduling done with SAP Job Scheduling capability § Difficult to extend job scheduling capabilities outside of the SAP environment Manual job scheduling and execution § SAP administrator or IT operations tasked with running jobs/processes outside of SAP manually Homegrown solution § Utilizing Cron or other homegrown solution to execute jobs/processes outside of SAP. Unscalable and not enterprise grade. How it’s Done Today – Workload Management in Coordination with SAP
- 12. 12 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD CA Workload Automation AE Advanced Integration for SAP Solution Manager § SAP-Certified Solution § Enhance insight into all business process steps from one central location within SAP Solution Manager § Centralized management and monitoring of both SAP and non-SAP workloads § Improve the ability to leverage SAP Solution Manager’s monitoring capabilities across the board § Support governance, mitigate risk and help meet compliance through documentation and reporting of business IT processes The Advantage of Simplicity Users can request, test, schedule and manage the execution of CA Workload Automation AE jobs directly without having to leave the familiar SAP interface. “…this solution gives us a simplified scheduling capability with one solution that is tightly integrated with SAP.” - A large, global beverage company
- 13. 13 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD SAP Job Scheduling Management – Customer Goals § Standardize management of SAP and Non-SAP workload § Improve staff efficiency § Centralize monitoring of all critical processes § Standardize governance process § Simplify business processes
- 14. 14 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Standardize Workload Management § Utilize SAP Job Documentation for all jobs – Error procedures – Contacts – Restrictions – Supplemental documents – Associated business process
- 15. 15 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Improve Staff Efficiency § Eliminate administration delays – SAP business users can administer CA Workload Automation AE (CA WA AE) jobs – Secured by both SAP and CA WA AE policies § Single UI to manage SAP and CA WA AE § Reduce operational costs
- 16. 16 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Centralized Monitoring § Single tool § Monitor critical CA AE jobs using SAP BP Monitoring § Use standard SAP alerts/notifications
- 17. 17 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Standard Governance § Job Documentation § Change Management (ChaRM) – Administer CA WA AE jobs – Standard administration approval process – Auditing
- 18. 18 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Simplify Business Processes § Extend supported business process technology with CA WA AE § Empower SAP business process architect § Provide visibility of “complete” business process
- 19. 19 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD CA Workload Automation Advanced Integration for SAP Business Warehouse § Certified solution by SAP § Visualize end-to-end workflows that include both SAP and non-SAP workloads § Monitor workflow statuses through a single pane of glass in the SAP Business Warehouse environment § Visualize and manage dependencies between SAP Business Warehouse and CA Workload Automation jobs Automate cross enterprise jobs from a central location Automatically trigger jobs at the right time to better support parallel processing
- 21. 21 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD The old saying still rings true: Time is money.
- 23. 23 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD CA Workload Automation Advanced Integration for SAP • Unify a disparate collection of scheduling and give more visibility on their jobs which helps to improve product quality, eliminate redundant tasks and eliminate dependencies on key personnel • Eliminate the training needs to the users. Now that we can provide a better and more productive work environment • Prevent unnecessary manual duplication of information that can quickly turn obsolete due to delayed record-keeping. Summary Who knows the requirement better than the business users…