Job Scheduler – Delivering Better Value in a Dynamic Work Environment
Gone are the days of paper trail! Computers have made live easy, fast and more productive. But even with computers, there are

many tasks that we do repeatedly, thousands of clicks and keystrokes per day, greatly hampering productivity and risking

errors.

With today’s dynamic work environment, job execution also needs to be instantaneous, dynamic and event driven rather than

just time-dependent. So one has to perform many routine and complex tasks everyday, and it is no wonder that many a times, we

forget to do the most basic and critical of tasks. So, into the picture comes the job scheduler.

Windows administrators, IT personnel, have a constant need to simplify both complex and routine tasks to enable them to

effectively respond to ever increasing pressure of delivering better value to the existing resources. Job Scheduling is the

answer and can help create greater efficiencies by automating of their daily tasks.

Job Scheduling and is also commonly known as batch processing. Job schedulers provide a GUI and a single point for scheduling

background executions.
 
A job scheduler is an enterprise software application that is in charge of unattended background executions, commonly known

for historical reasons as batch processing.

(Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_scheduler)
Can you imagine the advantages if this amazing tool is combined with an automation software?
 Everyday tasks like login in, filling forms, opening and closing programs, generating and formatting reports, etc.
 Computer Maintenance tasks like Internet Cleanup, delete temporary files, Defrag, run anti spyware software, etc.
 Automate a batch processing and schedule an event driven task
 More advanced tasks like web data extraction, sending out emails, migrating data, server maintenance, automate testing, etc.
Automation software combined with job scheduling capabilities increases productivity, accountability and auditability of the

enterprise.

Tips for choosing a Job Scheduling & Automation Software

Allows you to automate and schedule all types of jobs from simple everyday tasks to complex tasks like screen scrapping, web

data extraction, automate and schedule software testing, etc.
Easy to use: The application should be easy to learn and user-friendly so that one can customize it within minutes. If it has

the option of a wizard based task creation and scheduling, even better.
Allows for event-driven scheduling.

Originally posted 2008-12-24 15:59:40.