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IBM Tivoli Software Enhances Operating Stability and Efficiency for Major Chinese Automotive Company
Technology Category
- Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Automotive
Use Cases
- Leasing Finance Automation
- Material Handling Automation
The Challenge
The automotive company, based in China, was struggling with the efficient scheduling and management of a large number of jobs within multiple software environments. The company had numerous jobs with complex dependencies running on multiple platforms. The limited capabilities of the company’s proprietary scheduling software and the largely manual processes in place for setting job schedules, monitoring job statuses and importing job attributes and dependencies within the company’s SAP ERP, database, Java and IBM InfoSphere® DataStage® software environments posed a significant challenge. The company was in dire need of an automated workload-management solution to increase operating efficiency.
About The Customer
The customer is a major automotive company based in China. The company manufactures and sells multiple brands of automobiles in mainland China. The company had a large and complex workload with numerous jobs running on multiple platforms. The company was using proprietary scheduling software and largely manual processes for setting job schedules, monitoring job statuses and importing job attributes and dependencies within its SAP ERP, database, Java and IBM InfoSphere® DataStage® software environments.
The Solution
The company engaged IBM Software Services for Tivoli to implement a suite of IBM Tivoli workload automation software. Initially, the company replaced its proprietary job scheduler software with IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler software to schedule jobs across all platforms in the enterprise. Following this, it deployed IBM Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker software to schedule dynamic jobs and IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications software to schedule SAP ERP application jobs in the core production environment. This suite of IBM Tivoli software provided a centralized view of workload schedules and dependencies, enabling the company to run jobs in an orderly and timely way without conflict, while balancing resources and extending sophisticated workload automation to business applications.
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