Real time Event driven Management of SAP and Non SAP systems

1. Data Center Optimization
Through Event-Driven Process
Automation: Enhanced Real-
Time, Event-Driven Management
of SAP and Non-SAP Systems
Automating Operations Across
Environments
IT organizations have always looked for ways to reduce the cost of running the corporate data
center. Many technologies exist to make this a realistic goal, and the starting point is
automation. Like most IT-related functions, automation is not a new idea and various aspects
such as data backup and environmental control have been automated for years. There is an
increasing focus on the move toward consolidation of automated operations across disparate
environments and platforms. The key here is process automation: the provision of a central
point for integrating and controlling the execution of application processes — in the right
order and under the right conditions.
SAP Central Job Scheduling by Redwood, a core integrated component of the SAP
NetWeaver® stack, is one of the latest applications available from SAP. It provides SAP
customers with a central point of control for all IT workload processing — not just within the
SAP landscape but also across non-SAP applications and operating-system-level tasks.
Increasing System Performance, Reducing Hardware
Costs
SAP Central Job Scheduling by Redwood offers customers the ability to increase
productivity, reduce hardware costs, and increase system performance by delivering on key
objectives such as “lights out” operations, data center optimization, “fast close” end-of-period
processing, and streamlined consolidation of multiple SAP implementations. Now, your IT
organization can move toward the kind of reliability and flexibility that is critical to reduce
manual intervention and improve resource utilization; for example:
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2. Integration of processing across disparate environments
Parallel processing to reduce elapsed time and latency
Dynamic scheduling allowing real-time adjustments to workload based on conditions
prevailing at the time of and during execution
Optimization of IT resources by dynamically balancing workload across the available
systems, including support for SAP Adaptive Computing and Grid environments
Detection of failed processes and context-specific automated recovery actions
Real-time business event-driven processing
Architecture for SAP Central Job Scheduling by Redwood
Improving Data Center Operations Through Automation
Event-driven process automation is where real innovation can be applied to take data center
optimization even further. SAP Central Job Scheduling by Redwood removes the boundaries
imposed by time- and date-based scheduling solutions. The occurrence of actionable business
events such as an online user transaction, an incoming file transfer of a customer order, or the
receipt of an email can be used to trigger subsequent workload processing in the context of
the event that has occurred. Thus, the processes required to fulfill an order for a specific
customer can be executed as soon as the order is received, not at some artificially defined
“end-of-day batch-processing” time. Chains of related tasks can be constructed to optimize
workflow and reflect business requirements, breaking down the communication barriers that
previously existed between applications and environments. In this example, the benefits are
that the customer receives his or her order more quickly, contention for processing is spread
throughout the day, optimum use is made of the available resources, and background-

3. processing window requirements are reduced. See the Actebis sidebar for an example of how
a real customer achieved this.
Actebis Improves Order Fulfillment with SAP Central Job
Scheduling by Redwood
IT and telecommunications equipment distributor Actebis receives in excess of 5,000 orders a
day. In a highly competitive market with demanding customers expecting prompt delivery,
Actebis recognized that it needed a solution that would help it achieve 100 percent next-day
order fulfillment.
The real-time, event-driven capabilities of SAP Central Job Scheduling by Redwood enable
orders to be passed to the warehouse application for processing as soon as they arrive, having
a significant positive impact on the business and helping Actebis to achieve its business
goals.
The advanced automation techniques provided by SAP Central Job Scheduling by Redwood
and implemented by Redwood Software enable SAP customers to create a centralized
automation infrastructure that lays the foundation for fully optimizing single or distributed
corporate data centers and provide efficiencies that reduce costs and increase productivity.
Benefits of SAP Central Job Scheduling by Redwood
Increases productivity, simplifies cross-enterprise management, and reduces
training needs: Provides a single interface for management of all IT workload
including full integration with SAP Solution Manager
Reduces risk of errors and increases throughput: Enables automated workload
processing across all environments and composite applications
Streamlines processing and increases service-level compliance: Delivers
integration across all SAP, non-SAP, and composite applications
Improves overall operational efficiency: Permits integration with operating-system-
level workload (such as system backup)
Improves responsiveness: Provides real-time, event-driven workload automation
based on external activities such as incoming file transfers, business and system
events, or environmental metrics (CPU load or paging rates)
Optimizes resource utilization, throughput, and service-level compliance:
Delivers high availability and dynamic balancing of workload across all available
resources
Reduces the time needed to detect and respond to exceptions: Permits automated
error recovery across related applications plus integration with systems management
frameworks

4. For more information visit: www.sap.com/centraljobscheduling.