ActiveBatch®

“IT Automation Designed to Accommodate Change”

ActiveBatch

ASCI’s Flagship product

First released in 1997

Over 300,000 Installed Licenses

Over 1,600+ Customers in 45

Countries

Active Research and Development

o Current Version: V9 SP3

o Service Pack Releases

(Approx every 3-4 months)

o New Major Version Releases

(Approx every 12-18

months)

Software Engineering & Consulting Company

Founded in 1981

Privately Held

100% Self Funded

HQ – Morristown, New Jersey

100% ASCI Resources – No Outsourcing

Technical Support

Engineering

Quality Assurance

Sales

Training

Professional Services

o Configuration & Installation

o Migration Services

o Customization

o Best Practices

o & Knowledge Transfer

Who is Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. (ASCI)….

Client Feedback and Market Direction for IT Automation

What Advanced Systems Concepts is hearing from the marketplace:

• Continued Consolidation of the Islands of Automation• Improving Agility – Moving from Scripting to Templated

Automation methods to mitigate risk• Reducing the Cost of Operations

• Managing a more Flexible Infrastructure • Cloud Orchestration• Server Provisioning• Infrastructure Provisioning

• Identity Management / Security• Improved IT Governance• Audit Reporting for Compliance

• Improving Quality of Service Levels and IT Efficiency • Release Automation • Configuration Management

Architectural Approach to IT Automation vs. Elemental

A Collection of Disparate “Point” Solutions to

Automate Specific IT Tasks and Processes with Little or

No Communication between them

vs.

A Single IT Automation Engine to Build,

Automate and Manage IT and Business Processes from a Unified, Central

Point of Control

ActiveBatch’ an Architectural IT Automation SolutionActiveBatch’s Enhanced Capabilities Update Product Integrations Introductions in 2013

• Business • IBM Cognos BI• IBM DataStage• Teradata• Microsoft Dynamics AX• Oracle PeopleSoft• Oracle E Business Suite

• IT Operations• Microsoft System Center

• Orchestrator – Bi Directional• Configuration Manager• Operations Manager• Service Manager• Virtual Machine Manager

• Microsoft Integrations• Active Directory• Exchange• SharePoint

• ServiceNow

ActiveBatch’ an Architectural IT Automation Solution

ActiveBatch’s Enhanced Capabilities Introduced in 2013

• Product Integrations – Release Automation• Microsoft Team Foundation

Server• Microsoft Configuration

Manager• Cloud and Virtual Integrations

• Microsoft Azure• Amazon EC2• VMware• HyperV

ActiveBatch’ an Architectural IT Automation Solution

ActiveBatch’s Enhanced Capabilities planned for 2014

• Business Workload Integrations under consideration for upcoming release(s)• MicroStrategy• SAS• Oracle JDE• Others• Lieberman Software (Identity

Management / Security) • SolarWinds• Others – ASCI is Customer Driven and

looks for addressing requirements as requested by our base

Direction and Approaches for 2014

• Open the Integrated Jobs Library for customers / vendors to build & deploy incremental custom integrations

• ActiveBatch is an “event” based system we will be including constraint based capabilities to minimize the need for scheduling

• Improved approach to Machine Loading to better address SLA’s;

• Continue to improve already implemented Predictive Analytics (i.e. Managed Queue, Smart Queue; Critical Path Analysis, SLA)

Direction and Approaches for 2014

• Automated Migrations from Legacy Script Based Scheduling Systems• CA AutoSys and CA 7– Completed • Tivoli (TWS) – Completed • Cisco Tidal – Completed • Automic / UC4 – In Discussion

Automated Migrations from “Point / Elemental” Systems• Cron – Completed • SQL Server – Completed • Task Scheduler – Completed

“Completed” indicates that an Automated Migration system is currently available and customers have utilized our Professional Services with the Automated Migration to move from the legacy vendor while implementing ActiveBatch.

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