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Should you replace your Job Scheduler?

CONTROL-M can cost-effectively manage your batch flow across your entire enterprise – including ERP applications, advanced file transfer protocols, J2EE and Web Services. In addition, CONTROL-M’s Batch Impact Manager capability helps you prioritise your batch control. This allows you to manage what matters to directly impact your company’s bottom line. If your current scheduler can’t handle all this, or if you aren’t using a comprehensive scheduler at all, you need to find out more about CONTROL-M.

Methodology
As a leader in automated conversions, BMC Software has the tools, expertise and experience to ensure a smooth and successful migration. CONTROL-M's proven methodology, along with BMC Software's skilled Professional Services, has helped hundreds of sites through the migration process.

Tools - CONTROL-M offers a powerful, migration methodology that includes:

• Documented migration tools for all existing schedulers such as CA-7, Autosys,
      Tivoli TWS, Zeke, and CA-Jobtrac
• A comprehensive migration process
• On-site training
• Support to ensure migration success and minimize risk

Services - BMC Software Professional Services are available to manage and execute the entire conversion process for you, integrating the knowledge and experience of your data center with our conversion methodology.

BMC Software Professional Services offer:

• A proven migration process using migration tools for all common schedulers
• On-site conversion/replacement services
• Public and private customer training
• Scheduling audits and consulting
• Production management and scheduling consulting and implementation

Migration Phases

The Five Phases of Migration - The BMC Software migration process covers the following phases:

1. Solution Design - Assess the site's underlying configuration and infrastructure thoroughly

2. Infrastructure Creation and Tuning - Create and schedule all required administrative jobs and tasks to maintain proper products operation

3. Process Migration - Convert old scheduling definitions into CONTROL-M standard scheduling definitions, utilizing the old scheduler reports, JCL libraries and other databases as input

4. Parallel Testing and Product Monitoring - Activate CONTROL-M in a "passive" mode in parallel to the old scheduling product

5. Product Activation - Follow the Validation phase, the production schedules can be confidently activated for management by CONTROL-M

Solution
CONTROL-M goes beyond supplying core-scheduling capabilities. It manages your complex business environments efficiently and dynamically, providing comprehensive support for a large portfolio of applications and platforms. CONTROL-M integrates the batch processes running on your diverse systems into a unified, manageable business process – ensuring smooth operations. Moreover, it offers a focal point of management for your entire business flow, enabling efficient problem detection and resolution. This product is also considered by industry analysts to be the leading, most innovative and feature-rich scheduling solution.

Advantages

• Provides the ability to monitor, manage, control and optimise compound business
      environments
• Assures the successful, on-time completion of business-critical batch processes
      Integrates batch processes from all systems and applications, including ERPs,
      mainframe, home-grown applications, and ebusiness environments into one unified
      business process
• Offers real-time automated scheduling and production control from a consolidated view –
      regardless of configuration or physical location
• Supports over 30 different platforms and a large portfolio of applications
• Provides specialized ERP support that enhances each application's scheduling facilities –
      enabling cross platform, cross-application dependencies, statistics and post-execution
      analysis