TechValidate Research on CA Workload Automation

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 pharmaceuticals company is based on a February 2013 survey of CA Workload Automation customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

• Purchased and implemented CA Workload Automation to address the following:
  • Reduce the time required to process workloads
  • Improve staff productivity in terms of defining, monitoring and managing workloads
  • Meet service-level objectives of mission-critical workloads
  • Satisfy Compliance and Audit Requirements
  • Manage the growing volume of workloads

Use Case

• Runs 25,000 to 50,000 jobs per day with CA Workload Automation.
• Supports the following applications with CA Workload Automation:
  • SAP
  • “Custom Built” or Industry-Specific Applications
  • Informatica
  • IBM DataStage
• Uses the following CA Workload Automation Products:
  • CA Workload Automation AE (AutoSys)
  • CA Workload Automation CA7
  • CA Workload Automation Agents (Distributed)

Results

• Replaced or selected CA Workload Automation over the following vendors:
  • ASG
• Rated CA Workload Automation’s capabilities:
  • Ease of use and management: differentiated
  • Scalability & performance: differentiated
  • Depth of functionality: differentiated
  • Platform & application support: differentiated
  • Return on investment: differentiated
• Achieved the following after implementing CA Workload Automation:
  • Reduced batch processing time: 40%-60%
  • Improved SLA’s: up to 20%
  • Improved staff productivity: up to 20%

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise financial services company is based on a February 2013 survey of CA Workload Automation customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

• Purchased and implemented CA Workload Automation to address the following:
  • Reduce number of job failures
  • Reduce the time required to process workloads
  • Improve staff productivity in terms of defining, monitoring and managing workloads
  • Satisfy Compliance and Audit Requirements
  • Improve application development cycles
  • Manage the growing volume of workloads

Use Case

• Runs 0 to 10,000 jobs per day with CA Workload Automation.
• Supports the following applications with CA Workload Automation:
  • Web Service Applications (J2EE, .NET etc)
  • Database application (Microsoft SQL Server)
  • Database application (Oracle)
  • “Custom Built” or Industry-Specific Applications
  • Data mining applications
  • IT Operations (system backups, etc.)
• Uses the following CA Workload Automation Products:
  • CA Workload Automation AE (AutoSys)

Results

• Replaced or selected CA Workload Automation over the following vendors:
  • IBM
  • ASG
• Rated CA Workload Automation’s capabilities:
  • Ease of use and management: highly differentiated
  • Scalability & performance: highly differentiated
  • Depth of functionality: differentiated
  • Platform & application support: highly differentiated
  • Return on investment: differentiated
• Achieved the following after implementing CA Workload Automation:
  • Reduced job failures: 80%-100%
  • Reduced batch processing time: 60%-80%
  • Improved SLA’s: 80%-100%
  • Improved staff productivity: 80%-100%
  • Reduced hardware resources: 40%-60%