Monitor, Manage and Master! Take Charge of Your SAP and Cross-Enterprise Workloads from a Single Dashboard!

World®
’16
Monitor, Manage and Master! Take
Charge of Your SAP® and Cross-Enterprise
Workloads From a Single Dashboard!
Dan Shannon, Sr. Principal, Product Manager
CA Technologies
MFX120S
MAINFRAME AND WORKLOAD AUTOMATION

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Abstract
Hear about the simplicity and powerful integration capabilities of CA Workload Automation for
SAP Solution Manager and SAP Business Warehouse. Learn how SAP administrators can visualize
and manage dependencies between these SAP solutions and CA Workload Automation (CA WA)
jobs from a central location—automatically triggering jobs at the right time to better support
parallel processing.
Dan
Shannon
CA Technologies
Sr. Principal Product
Manager

Agenda
OVERVIEW
CHALLENGES
CA WORKLOAD AUTOMATION (CA WA) ADVANCED INTEGRATION FOR SAP - BENEFITS
Q & A
1
2
3
4

Overview

The Application Economy and SAP
§ Increased demand for automating enterprise-wide business
processes across a vast array of applications
§ Need to extend existing SAP applications into multi-platform
environments or create new cloud-based applications
§ Need to improve what staff and partners experience in
monitoring your SAP landscape:
– Change requests
– Implementations and upgrades
– Service levels and application performance metrics
§ Requires a scheduling system that can trigger applications and
business processes when a business event occurs

CA WA Advanced Integrations for SAP
SAP Solution Manager and SAP Business Warehouse
Solution Manager
Job Management
(JSM)
Change Management
(ChaRM)
Business Process
Operations (BPMon
& MAI )
Administration
Documentation
Monitoring
… Management
… Management
… Management
… Management
Business Warehouse
Process Chain
SAP
SAP
CA WA
AE
SAP
CA WA
AE

Challenges

SAP Workload-Specific Challenges
§ Unable to extend the scheduling capabilities of SAP to
both SAP and non-SAP jobs
§ Can’t monitor the statuses of submitted workloads and
visualize end-to-end business processes from one
central location
§ Switching between schedulers to manage and monitor
end-to end workloads
§ Manual process to start, wait and finish for a non-SAP
job to complete as a part of a greater SAP Business
Warehouse process chain
§ No central location to document all jobs

Job scheduling done with SAP Job Scheduling capability
§ Difficult to extend job scheduling capabilities outside of the SAP
environment
Manual job scheduling and execution
§ SAP administrator or IT operations tasked with running jobs/processes
outside of SAP manually
Homegrown solution
§ Utilizing Cron or other homegrown solution to execute jobs/processes
outside of SAP. Unscalable and not enterprise grade.
How it’s Done Today – Workload Management in
Coordination with SAP

Benefits

CA Workload Automation AE Advanced Integration
for SAP Solution Manager
§ SAP-Certified Solution
§ Enhance insight into all business process steps
from one central location within SAP Solution
Manager
§ Centralized management and monitoring of both
SAP and non-SAP workloads
§ Improve the ability to leverage SAP Solution
Manager’s monitoring capabilities across the board
§ Support governance, mitigate risk and help meet
compliance through documentation and reporting
of business IT processes
The Advantage of Simplicity
Users can request, test, schedule
and manage the execution of CA
Workload Automation AE jobs
directly without having to leave
the familiar SAP interface.
“…this solution gives us a simplified
scheduling capability with one
solution that is tightly integrated with
SAP.”
- A large, global beverage company

SAP Job Scheduling Management – Customer Goals
§ Standardize management of SAP and Non-SAP workload
§ Improve staff efficiency
§ Centralize monitoring of all critical processes
§ Standardize governance process
§ Simplify business processes

Standardize Workload Management
§ Utilize SAP Job Documentation for all jobs
– Error procedures
– Contacts
– Restrictions
– Supplemental documents
– Associated business process

Improve Staff Efficiency
§ Eliminate administration delays
– SAP business users can administer CA Workload Automation AE (CA
WA AE) jobs
– Secured by both SAP and CA WA AE policies
§ Single UI to manage SAP and CA WA AE
§ Reduce operational costs

Centralized Monitoring
§ Single tool
§ Monitor critical CA AE jobs using SAP BP Monitoring
§ Use standard SAP alerts/notifications

Standard Governance
§ Job Documentation
§ Change Management (ChaRM)
– Administer CA WA AE jobs
– Standard administration approval process
– Auditing

Simplify Business Processes
§ Extend supported business process technology with CA WA AE
§ Empower SAP business process architect
§ Provide visibility of “complete” business process

CA Workload Automation Advanced Integration
for SAP Business Warehouse
§ Certified solution by SAP
§ Visualize end-to-end workflows that
include both SAP and non-SAP workloads
§ Monitor workflow statuses through a
single pane of glass in the SAP Business
Warehouse environment
§ Visualize and manage dependencies
between SAP Business Warehouse and
CA Workload Automation jobs
Automate cross enterprise jobs
from a central location
Automatically trigger jobs at the right time
to better support parallel processing

SAP Business Warehouse - Process Chains Without
Advanced Integration
BW
SAP
SAP
SAP
WCC
SAP PC
SAP PC
CA WA
AE
CA WA
AE

The old saying still rings true:
Time is money.

Single, Unified Dashboard Which Can Reduce IT
Complexity and Increased Agility
§ One of the highest business benefits of enterprise application
integration with workload automation is that it allows
organizations to recognize and respond to opportunities more
quickly. Enterprise applications can help business address the
issues more proactively and effectively – all from a single
interface.

CA Workload Automation Advanced Integration for SAP
• Unify a disparate collection of scheduling and give more visibility on their jobs which helps to improve
product quality, eliminate redundant tasks and eliminate dependencies on key personnel
• Eliminate the training needs to the users. Now that we can provide a better and more productive work
environment
• Prevent unnecessary manual duplication of information that can quickly turn obsolete due to delayed
record-keeping.
Summary
Who knows the requirement better than the business users…

Questions?

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Thank you.

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