{"id":476,"date":"2016-03-28T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/?p=476"},"modified":"2016-10-18T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T20:31:00","slug":"5-things-enterprises-didnt-know-they-could-automate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/5-things-enterprises-didnt-know-they-could-automate\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things Enterprises Didn\u2019t Know They Could Automate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2015\/04\/ssprguy-2014.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-477 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2015\/04\/ssprguy-2014-240x300.jpeg\" alt=\"ssprguy-2014\" width=\"114\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2015\/04\/ssprguy-2014-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2015\/04\/ssprguy-2014.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 114px) 100vw, 114px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Automation of processes is an essential part of working in a cloud computing environment; it would be difficult to achieve the main benefits of cloud platforms \u2014 scalability and flexibility \u2014 without it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Is your enterprise taking full advantage of the benefits that automation offers? Here&#8217;s Jim Manias, Vice President of Systems Concepts inc., \u00a0with five things enterprises didn&#8217;t know they could automate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>1. Dynamically Provision Virtual\/Cloud Systems<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Just as smart thermostat systems\u00a0raise and lower the temperature according to your activities, an intelligent automation solution\u00a0can automatically spin up more machines when additional computing power is needed to complete jobs, as well as spin down machines during idle times to eliminate resource waste.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>2. Streamline DevOps Processes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Workload automation solutions streamline DevOps processes to facilitate collaboration and shorten application release cycles by providing pre-templated job steps and reference plans that minimize time spent scripting and performing repetitive processes. For example, users can create a single, complex workflow that can be reused numerous times in various environments such as Dev, QA, and Production, instead of creating multiple workflows, each requiring individual maintenance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>3. Self Service Automation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Automation is putting the power in the hands of the business end-user. Allowing business end users to initiate a process or workflow without involving someone from IT minimizes the burden on IT\u2019s shoulders, thereby improving IT service levels for the business overall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>4. Improve Data and Analytics \/ Big Data<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Automation provides a significant advantage to organizations using big data by reliably executing complex workflows needed to process unstructured and structured data. Additionally, modern workload automation solutions provide a centralized viewpoint for workflows and processes that give organizations enhanced monitoring of big data dependencies and constraints.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>5. Script Lifecycle Management<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Even though a modern automation solution should help move your organization away from custom scripting, you still want to protect your existing script investment. Software with script vaulting and lifecycle management provides a secure, central library to store, manage, and track script revisions while offering improved reliability for building and deploying workloads going forward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>Jim Manias<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0is\u00a0<strong>Vice President at <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advsyscon.com\/home\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0and is responsible for the overall market strategy and planning for a range of products including ActiveBatch\u00ae Workload Automation and Job Scheduling. \u00a0Jim has been with Advanced Systems Concepts since 1991 and has held multiple senior management positions in the enterprise software and hardware market. \u00a0Jim can be reached at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:JManias@advsyscon.com\"><em>JManias@advsyscon.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><br \/>Widget not in any sidebars<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automation of processes is an essential part of working in a cloud computing environment; it would be difficult to achieve the main benefits of cloud platforms \u2014 scalability and flexibility \u2014 without it. 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