BMC Control-M 7: A Journey from Traditional Batch Scheduling to Workload Automation

Centralized enterprise scheduling

Looking back 20 years, technology has grown beyond imagination, but the needs for batch processing haven't been reduced. According to Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling 2009 report, 70 percent of business processes are performed in batch. In the same report, Gartner forecasted a 6.5 percent future annual growth in the job scheduling market.

Challenges in today's batch processing

In the recent years, IT is becoming more and more sophisticated to meet the ever-growing business requirements. The amount of information to be processed in batch is scarily increasing. At the same time we are also in a trend of batch window shrinking. As a consequence, the system's in-built scheduling functionality or homegrown ...