Enterprise job orchestration tools: Choose the right automation solution

As business processes and workflows become more and more complex, the risks associated with inefficiency, errors and sluggishness to adopt modern practices go up dramatically. Fortunately, there is a solution to mitigate those risks — job orchestration.

Here, we’ll explain how job orchestration tools can bring your enterprise into the next generation of efficient, reliable, automated IT orchestration solutions.

What job orchestration is

Simply put, job orchestration is taking disparate business processes throughout your enterprise and bringing their oversight and management together in one location. Orchestration in the IT world is, as the name suggests, like the process of a conductor leading an orchestra. Each section of instruments (string, brass, percussion, etc.) has its own instructions for playing different parts of the music, and sections must harmonize with one another. The conductor is responsible for monitoring all of the sections and making sure they work together to create a symphony of sound. The conductor is the orchestration tool.

In the same way, job orchestration integrates business processes and workflows that may have formerly been done in silos across an entire enterprise using job scheduling and workload automation (WLA).

Why you need job orchestration tools

Workload automation solutions and job scheduling tools can only get your IT teams and initiatives so far on their own. They need to be able to quickly and seamlessly integrate new technologies into existing IT processes so that the end-to-end process lifecycle remains stable. Now, more than ever, there are a myriad of choices when it comes to finding applications and platforms to suit different IT workload management needs.

A job orchestration tool gives you a simple, low-code, high-observability platform that allows you to use your IT resources, whether something like servers or people, efficiently. You get real-time, event-driven job scheduling and automated processes that use machine learning to resolve issues that arise, such as jams in your data pipeline, failed batch jobs or unsuccessful big data file transfers when your server dependencies are not properly aligned.

Orchestration can streamline your workflows so that automated processes are as cohesive as possible without needing custom code or manual intervention. And, through orchestration tools, you gain the ability to oversee everything happening in your system at once through a single pane of glass. Real-time auditing and SLA monitoring allow you to make sure your workload automation solutions and job scheduling tools are giving you the optimization you need to succeed.

Where you can use job orchestration

The applications for job orchestration in your enterprise are far-reaching, with use cases including:

• Data management automation: Synchronize your ETL and data orchestration tools with real-time data feeds managed from one place.

• DevOps: Keep track of your CI/CD processes throughout the entire lifecycle of a new build and release.
• ERP automation: Logically integrate automated processes across ERPs like SAP and Oracle, eliminating limitations from built-in tools.
• IT ecosystem: Coordinate resource provisioning and automate maintenance tasks to free up your IT team’s time.
• Managed file transfer (MFT): Securely transfer millions of files seamlessly and with total confidence across systems and locations, internally and externally.

When you need to implement job orchestration tools

If more than one part of your enterprise is automated or needs automating, then the answer is right now! The sooner you adopt the modern practice of job orchestration, the better off you will be in the long run. Automation is a key component of digital transformation. The evolution of workflow management across all types of business processes is going to continue to require full scalability, cost savings and ease of use in new innovations, and job orchestration tools are the key to that future.

Who to trust for job orchestration expertise

In vetting a job orchestration tool, look for a platform that will give you complete control over all current technologies, as well as future ones, that your enterprise employs.

RunMyJobs by Redwood is a cloud-native SaaS job orchestration tool that does just that. It gives you secure, reliable job and workflow orchestration with accessible, self-service design and deployment using low-code/no-code automation tools and drag-and-drop templates.

Recognized by Gartner® as the Leader furthest in vision and second-highest in execution in its 2024 Magic Quadrant™ for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (SOAP), RunMyJobs offers agile, efficient, cost-saving business process automation with cross-platform adaptation to any infrastructure and architecture — cloud-native, on-premises or hybrid. Use pre-built connectors or build reusable adapters with APIs to incorporate the capabilities of your existing tech stack into your end-to-end processes.

RunMyJobs is infinitely extensible — it seamlessly integrates with ERP providers like SAP and Oracle, programming languages like JavaScript and Python and operating systems, including open-source offerings like Linux. The orchestration platform also works with cloud-based service providers like Google Cloud, AWS and Microsoft Azure.

Read the full Gartner report to learn more about RunMyJobs’ SOAP capabilities.

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