BMC Software White Paper Sample

Mission-critical data processing relies in large part on the automated initiation, execution, management, integration, and recovery of batch-mode IT processing—scripts, jobs, tasks, and other non-interactive IT processes that manipulate a specific data set. These processes may be application-oriented, such as accounting, payments, e-commerce, supply chain management, ERP, purchasing, ordering, fulfillment or data mining; or system-oriented, such as data backup, grid and cluster support, virtual load balancing, storage management, or data export-transform-load operations. Batch processing in a modern enterprise is a foundation technology for many critical business services, so it is imperative to maintain consistent and reliable batch processing.

At the same time, change is inevitable and profitable businesses demand almost continual change, so they can provide new products and services, build competitive advantage, and continually improve customer service.