How CSBP Turbocharged Its Enterprise Job Scheduling Capability

Rodney Hee

August 2010

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Agenda• Background• Requirements• CSBP Job Scheduling• Product Evaluation• Project Management• Benefits• Key Learnings

About CSBP www.csbp.com.au

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Background• 2009 Upgrade from Xe7333 to ERP 8.12.• Migrate from AS400 iSeries to Microsoft Windows/SQL

Server• Migrate Help Systems Job Scheduler to JDE Scheduler• Interim solution for go live – JDE Job launcher

application. • Loss of job scheduling functions

– Groups, Dependencies, Calendaring, Printing, Notifications

Background

CSBP’s Job Scheduling Requirements• Job Logic & Dependencies

– Parent to Parent and Parent to Child dependencies – Stop processing a group of jobs if a child job fails, and launch

next group.• Calendaring inclusions and exclusions• Job retries (automated/manual)• Job run window• Job completion notification (failure/success)• Integration with JDE and external processes

– SQL Package execution– Cognos Cube builds

CSBP Job Scheduling Structure

Product EvaluationGartner

Magic Quadrant

Enterprise Job Schedulers

Product Evaluation

Selection Criteria Tidal Zena D-SeriesJDE Interoperability 2

Solution Connector

1RUNUBE

1 Web

Service

SQL Server Interoperability 1 1 1

JDE Reference Sites 1 1 0

Setup / Job Control 2 1 1

Cost 1 1 1

Total 7 5 4

Product Evaluation

for Demonstration,

POC and Training

Project Timeline

Demos

Mar Apr May Jun Jul

Tidal POC

Selection/ Contract Training

Implementation

Go Live

Benefits• Shortened Job processing window• Job status notification

– IS Operations Staff– Business Systems Specialists

• Global view of scheduled jobs• Better job control

– Resubmit, Cancel, Hold, Override– Dependencies– Links to calendars

Key Learnings• Understand your job scheduling requirements• Develop a good knowledge of scheduling tool

functions and configuration options.• Conduct a POC – Try before you buy • Test ! Test ! Test !• Manage your production rollout • Maintain a UAT Environment

Questions&

Product Tour

PrimaryMastersWindows/Unix/Linux

Backup

FaultMonitor

OracleMS SQL

Agents

Windows Unix Linux zOS Tandem OVMSOS/400 MPE/iX

ERP/CRM SAP Oracle PeopleSoft JD Edwards Lawson BAANBI SAP BW Informatica Business Objects Cognos DataStage SASDatabase Oracle MS SQLSOA Web ServicesFile & Storage FTP/SFTP/FTPS Veritas Tivoli Storage Manager Symantec Backup ExecVirtualization & Provisioning VMwareCustom Integration

Enterprise Adapters

Reporting Server

ETL Engine

FileEmailDBSNMPAlarmPointManagement Frameworks HP Openview Microsoft SCOM07

ExternalEvents

Windows or Linux

Clients

Win ClientWeb Client CLI

New JDE Solution Connector

www.tidalsoftware.com

Sales Contact

Philip Kopesdy - pkopesdy@cisco.com

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