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Articles and Whitepapers

The articles and whitepapers listed here concern schedulix and BICsuite Workload Automation Systems equally and are therefore hosted on the website of independIT, the manufacturer of the two workload automation systems.

For Beginners

Explainer Video
Why is Job Scheduling needed at all?
What is Enterprise Job Scheduling?
The evolution to Workload Automation software began with Job Scheduling.
What is Workload Automation?
Modern workload automation can do much more than run programs on a schedule
Decentralized Workload Automation
There may be more than one: How different schedulers can be automated holistically
Sequence Control with Shell Scripts
Why rigid automation can quickly cause problems
Video Tutorials
In our tutorial videos you will get insights into workload automation with BICsuite and schedulix

For Changeover

Automation in the Data Warehouse
A data warehouse has particularly high workload requirements
Automation
Parallelization of Processes in the
Data Warehouse
The advantages of parallelization with workload automation software over RDBMS-internal parallelization
Migration to BICsuite
So that the migration does not become a nail-biter: Our methodology for migration during ongoing operations
The most important features of workload automation software
Here’s what you should look for when deciding on a new automation solution
Process Decomposition
Why decomposition into small processes is so important in automation

For Professionals

Complex Scheduling Problems
With and / or links even complex requirements for time and calendar controlled starts can be automated
Backlog Handling after System Downtimes
How to resolve backlogs with resource bottlenecks as quickly as possible with BICsuite and schedulix
Dependency Resolution and Ambiguous Dependencies
How to define dependencies so that your workload automation software can handle them clearly and unambiguously
The BICsuite Run Program
Series of articles about the Run Program, the hub for saving and executing scripts
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Manuals and Whitepapers