You might be wondering, “What is a scheduler?” Imagine your business as a large farm. Every day, there are dozens of tasks to accomplish: milking the cows, planting the fields, harvesting, feeding the animals… If everyone does what they want when they want, it’s chaos.
You risk forgetting things, doing the same task twice, or stepping on each other’s toes. The result? You lose time, money, and the work is rushed.
A scheduler is a bit like the conductor of your IT operations. Its role is to organize and assign tasks to the right resources so that they are done efficiently and on time.
What does a scheduler actually do?
The scope of what a scheduler does includes everything running in the background: batch processing (the famous “batch”), scripts, programs, web services, file transfers.
Common sense tells us that when building a house, you don’t put the roof up before the walls. A scheduler is the same: it manages task dependencies.
A task only starts if the previous one is finished – and finished well! No more bugs because a step was skipped or failed.
Meet Axway Automator: your automation ally
Take Axway Automator, for example, a solution that knows how to handle this and more.
Its job is to automate file transfers, data integration, and workflow orchestration between different systems, applications, and platforms. It’s a bit like the “Swiss Army knife” of automation, allowing you to simplify manual tasks and reduce errors.
Axway Automator helps rationalize planning, organization, process activation, monitoring, and alert management. It can even integrate systems across your company’s silos for inter-departmental collaboration and end-to-end business process management.
Whether your systems run on Windows, Linux/Unix, IBM z/OS, or OS/400, it’s there for you.
In short, for a business, having a scheduler like Axway Automator isn’t a luxury; it’s basic logic to keep things running smoothly and reduce operational risks and costs.
Tangible benefits of scheduling automation
Less risk, lower costs
By automating, we reduce manual errors (and errors are expensive!), and IT teams can focus on more important tasks than manually launching scripts. It’s pure efficiency and cost optimization.
Reliability and performance
A good scheduler ensures that your processes run reliably, improving the overall performance of your information system. It ensures reliable execution of workflows, reducing manual intervention. It’s like a tractor that never breaks down.
It works everywhere
Whether you’re in manufacturing (to schedule assembly), healthcare (for updating patient records), or energy (for data flow management), the scheduler finds its use. It makes the business more profitable and competitive.
And you, how do you systematize the automation of processing chains in your company? Is your scheduler up to your ambitions?
Start taking control of end-to-end process automation, regardless of technical silos.