Job scheduling and application performance management are typically viewed as
unrelated products. They are rarely integrated and you cannot even get them from
a single vendor. Why is it that job scheduling and application performance
management exist separately when they could work together?
Scheduling of resources is one of the best controls you have in managing your
environment, and performance management is at the heart of making sure your
applications and processes run correctly. Run too little and not enough gets
done. Run too much and nothing gets done.
A robust enterprise job scheduler knows exactly when and what is expected of
each application. So the job scheduler is in perfect position to communicate
with the performance management software when the slightest error in timing or
content is detected so that potential difficulties with the applications that
feed the jobs can’t mushroom and derail critical processes. If a job scheduler
did that and in turn the performance management software automatically ran
expert procedures to correct problems, then enterprises could operate with
optimum efficiency. It makes sense that job scheduling and application
performance management should be integrated and available from a single vendor.
With Tidal ASAP, Tidal Software has unified job scheduling and application
performance management. Tidal automates the interplay between job scheduling and
performance management and allows you to profit from the synergies between the
two functions environment.
By leveraging performance management while executing job schedules, Tidal
ASAP captures and provides IT staff with detailed assistance to better plan
production and address hotspots in the production schedule. It also notifies
application experts of potential problems with the application. Tidal ASAP
understands the dependencies and interrelationships between all processes and
related applications and systems so it simplifies day-to-day management of the
whole enterprise, and helps detect problems earlier so service levels can be
maintained. Tidal ASAP’s performance management capabilities can even run many
expert procedures to resolve problems detected by its scheduling features.
What’s more, Tidal ASAP leaves no footprint on any application it touches,
custom or packaged. Easily deployed in heterogeneous environments, it provides a
powerful view into application operations from a single console.
Learn more about how Tidal ASAP, the combined
Enterprise Job scheduling and application performance management solution, can
benefit your IT organization
