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Nov 29 2008   2:27PM GMT

Batch Processing and ActiveBatch 7.0 Part 3



Posted by: Yusuf Salwati
Uncategorized, Project management, DataManagement, Productivity, Competitive advantage

ActiveBatch Job Scheduling Scalability, Manageability and Integration:

ActiveBatch’s uniquely scaleable job scheduling architecture provides users greater manageability as well as flexibility and control for addressing job scheduling requirements across the Enterprise. ActiveBatch supports the reliable execution of job and plans on:

* Linux (Red Hat & SUSE)
* IBM AIX
* Sun Solaris SPARC, x86, x64
* Windows 2008/Vista/2003/XP/2000
32 and 64-Bit Window Systems * HP-UX
* HP Tru64 Unix
* OpenVMS

ActiveBatch is a proven job scheduling solution, designed to be customer installable and incorporates many Microsoft, Oracle, HP and other technologies to help organization standardize to provide the best balance for a reduced learning curve and cost of operations.

ActiveBatch’s high performance capabilities allow separate departments within organizations to share “private” job scheduling capabilities as a corporate utility inside or outside of the data center to avoid in advertent changes to objects. Directory Services allows for access via a Published name.

ActiveBatch is script language independent to allow jobs, scripts, exe’s, etc. to be scheduled, monitored and ran based upon date and time, events or simply on-demand on heterogeneous platforms across domains and around the world.

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Nov 22 2008   12:57PM GMT

Batch processing and ActiveBatch 7.0



Posted by: Yusuf Salwati
Database, Project management, CRM, DataCenter, DataManagement, Quality assurance, Productivity, IT project management, IT management tips

If you are a business manager or IT consultant, you know that there is not enough time, time is your biggest killer, so many tasks that need to be executed in the shortest possible time.

The concept of batch processing (in its simplest form) is to have a software program (script) run a task for you. For example: each morning you launch your web browser and navigate your way to your chosen financial broker website to get the latest activities on a stock, with batch processing, you can automate this daily activity so at certain hour of the day, you will have the stock(s) activities displayed on your screen or even e-mailed to you.

Batch processing is to automate repetitive tasks by writing scripts (codes.) In my early programming days, I had to write scripts to run tests on website, they idea was to have the script send thothands of page requests to a particular website, to simulate the actual users. Writing the script was time consuming and error prone.

Since that time, lots of improvement is being made in the automation of batch processing. Several software vendors are offering solutions to ease task creation under batch processing. One the vendors’ solutions that I had the privilege to review was Activebatch 7.0 by Advanced Systems Concepts. Using tele-conferning and web conferencing, Jim Manias from Advanced Systems Concepts, gave me a great overview of the new ActiveBatch 7.0 release.

On of the main features of ActiveBatch 7.0 (which I try to discuss more in the coming posts), is significantly reducing the need to write scripts, most of scripts writing is already done for you, you only have to chose the task and click.

In the next several posts, I will try to get into more details of ActiveBatch 7.0 features.

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May 21 2008   1:35PM GMT

Fleet management tips needed



Posted by: Yusuf Salwati
Project management, Software Quality, DataManagement, IT managers, Productivity, Customer Service, IT management tips

At my current job, I am facing a bit of a challenge managing our company’s fleet of about 70 cars. I have searched the internet for good fleet management software and I found few good software but I am not sure about the quality of these software.

Does anyone know of a good fleet management software?

Challenges that we are facing with our fleet of cars:

1- Rental history
2- Accident history
3- Maintenance history
4- Mileage
5- Cost of ownership
6- Warranty information
7- Checkout and check records

Of course we have some type of records for our fleet, but I like to have a complete control of our fleet where no part of fleet management is over looked.

Does anyone know of good software for fleet management and also any tips in this subject are welcome

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