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Evolution of Workload Automation

Over the last few years, the rapid digital transformation brought on by the pandemic has increased the burdens and stresses placed on IT professions. It’s estimated that most businesses have experienced decades worth of digital transformation and change initiatives in an 18-month span. That is a lot for any one business to handle.

Against this backdrop, the role of batch processing continues to play a vital role and is as important to the business as online transaction processing, with batch jobs performing critical database updates that enable online transactions. This highlights that the ability to handle batch scheduling process, to evolve it and to have it adapt to wider business demands is key for many large enterprises. To ensure smooth execution of the overall batch process that underpins mission critical applications, an increasingly vital component is the development of checked, errorfree Job Control Language (JCL).

In our latest infosheet, Evolution of Workload Automation — done in partnership with IBM and 21st Century — we evaluate the overall batch scheduling and programming market offering insight into IBM’s JCL Expert and why we, at Futurum Research, believe it is well-suited to meet the client need in the ever-changing DevOps landscape.

In this infosheet you’ll learn:

• A look at how workloads have evolved in the last few years
• The main challenges of batch scheduling automation and DevOps
• Insight into key client needs in the DevOps It landscape
• IBM’s value proposition

We believe that organizations looking to accelerate mainframe transformation, ensure business SLA’s and react to ever-changing business requirements cannot overlook JCL development. If you are interested in learning more about IBM’s JCL Expert and how it can improve your DevOps toolchain, download your copy of Evolution of Workload Automation today.

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Author Information

Regarded as a luminary at the intersection of technology and business transformation, Steven Dickens is the Vice President and Practice Leader for Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations at The Futurum Group. With a distinguished track record as a Forbes contributor and a ranking among the Top 10 Analysts by ARInsights, Steven's unique vantage point enables him to chart the nexus between emergent technologies and disruptive innovation, offering unparalleled insights for global enterprises.

Steven's expertise spans a broad spectrum of technologies that drive modern enterprises. Notable among these are open source, hybrid cloud, mission-critical infrastructure, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and FinTech innovation. His work is foundational in aligning the strategic imperatives of C-suite executives with the practical needs of end users and technology practitioners, serving as a catalyst for optimizing the return on technology investments.

Over the years, Steven has been an integral part of industry behemoths including Broadcom, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and IBM. His exceptional ability to pioneer multi-hundred-million-dollar products and to lead global sales teams with revenues in the same echelon has consistently demonstrated his capability for high-impact leadership.

Steven serves as a thought leader in various technology consortiums. He was a founding board member and former Chairperson of the Open Mainframe Project, under the aegis of the Linux Foundation. His role as a Board Advisor continues to shape the advocacy for open source implementations of mainframe technologies.

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