ActiveBatch Workload Automation

I can only speak for our environment, but it has allowed us to get away from the unfriendly Informatica PowerCenter workflow schedule. And coordination of Informatica/Tableau/ICEDQ has been a BIG help to us. We have not tried to drill down to the Informatica session-level of detail, just stayed with running workflows. The session-level logic seemed complicated.

Because there are so many alternatives, quick training is really necessary. Overall, using this programme, which offers practically everything you need for whatever organisation you work in (IT, manufacturing, aerospace, logistics, etc.), felt like a life-changing event.This application has made life so much simpler for us that we can quickly manage our supply, make decisions about future purchases, and fulfil customer requests while making plans accordingly. With an approved supplier list and tracking it, purchasing the necessary electrical goods became incredibly simple for IT professionals.

ActiveBatch is an excellent tool to distribute to multiple teams across the organization, allowing developers, application support, business units as well as mangers to create the tasks they need and maintain their configurations, without having to wait on a central point of support.

When only basic or isolated tasks that do not require coordination or integration with other systems or applications must be performed. In this scenario, ActiveBatch may be overkill, and you may be able to fulfil your goals using simpler tools or scripts. When you have highly specialized or bespoke requirements that ActiveBatch does not cover out of the box or through its existing connectors. In this instance, you may need to create new scripts or extensions to make ActiveBatch function for your specific requirements, which may raise the complexity and maintenance expenses of your solution.

As a DevOps engineer, it made me difficult to manage such complex infrastructure for maintaining the applications end-end, but this software helped in automation of scripts and tasks and automatic monitoring and scheduling of workflows. On any given week the company would have literally hundreds of file import/export transactions that need to happen on a single day, every day, every month, or some complex combination of days at different hours of the day and night and consistently ActiveBatch delivered. It allowed for the efficient design and redesign of import/export jobs (such as being able to reuse schedule objects, allow for the partial execution of nodes for a particular job to help with testing, and effortlessly change parameters from testing to development deployments), logging of transaction errors, and ability to work with the wide variety of file processing tools that we would use internally (ETL, SSIS packages, .NET code, etc.)