1. ActiveBatch®
“IT Automation Designed to Accommodate Change”

2. ho is Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. (ASCI)….
Software Engineering & Consulting
Company
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Founded in 1981
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Privately Held
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100% Self Funded
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HQ – Morristown, New Jersey
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100% ASCI Resources – No Outsourcing
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Technical Support
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Engineering
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Quality Assurance
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Sales
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Training
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Professional Services
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Configuration & Installation
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Migration Services
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Customization
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Best Practices
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& Knowledge Transfer
ActiveBatch
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ASCI’s Flagship product
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First released in 1997
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Over 300,000 Installed Licenses
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Over 1,600+ Customers in 45 Countries
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Active Research and Development
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Current Version: V9 SP3
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Service Pack Releases
(Approx every 3-4 months)
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New Major Version Releases
(Approx every 12-18 months)

3. 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

4. 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
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A Single IT Automation
Engine to Build, Automate
and Manage IT and
Business Processes from
a Unified, Central Point of
Control

5. ActiveBatch’ an Architectural IT Automation Solution
ActiveBatch’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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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)

9. 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.

10. Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. Partners with Industry Leaders