These slides from leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) provide key results from the 2017 “EMA Radar™ on Workload Automation.” In this side-by-side comparison of the 14 leading WLA platforms, solutions are empirically evaluated and graded against a broad range of measurements to objectively determine overall product strengths and cost efficiencies.

1. Dan Twing
President & COO
Enterprise Management Associates
EMA Workload Automation Radar
An Objective Comparison of Leading Workload Automation Solutions
January 9, 2018

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3. Today’s Presenter
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Dan Twing – President and COO
Enterprise Management Associates
Dan is responsible for developing and executing strategic
market research, delivering value to IT organizations through
consulting engagements, and directing product developments
and marketing efforts. Dan joined EMA in 2005 and has over
25 years of experience in information systems, software
development, and technology outsourcing. Dan focuses on all
aspects of intelligent and automated management of IT.

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Questions
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5. Dan Twing
President & COO
Enterprise Management Associates
EMA Workload Automation Radar
An Objective Comparison of Leading Workload Automation Solutions
January 9, 2018

6. Agenda
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• Overarching Trends Impacting WLA
• Assessing the Workload Automation
Market
• Characteristics of a Preferred
Solution
• The EMA RADAR for Workload
Automation
• Special Recognition Awards
• Future Trends in WLA

7. Overarching Trends Impacting WLA
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• More users upgrading more often – staying current
• Expanded APIs
• Native MFT - more featured/more important
• Enterprise licenses on the rise
• Increase in use of self-service dashboards
• Increased support for big data tools
• WLA becoming digital business automation
• Increased investment & competition in WLA Market

8. Assessing the Workload Automation Market
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• EMA Radar Reports standardize the evaluation of product sets in
specific management disciplines by comparing vendor and product
review elements in 5 distinct categories:
• Architecture and Integration
• Functionality
• Deployment and Administration
• Cost Advantage
• Vendor Strength

9. Characteristics of a Preferred Solution
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Architecture
• Business Focus
• Scalability, performance, and reliability
• Dynamic workload placement
• Breadth of Platform Support
• Breadth of Application & Database support
• Disaster Protection

10. Characteristics of a Preferred Solution
Integration/Interoperability
• Comprehensive API
• Cloud Integration
• CMDB Integration
• ITPA Integration
• Capacity Management Integration
• MFT Integration
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11. Characteristics of a Preferred Solution
Functionality - Features
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• End-to-end Monitoring
• Compliance Management
• Triggering
• Self-service Portal
• Forecasting, Analytics & Reporting
• Alerting
• Security
• What-if Scenarios
• Conditional Logic & Auto Remediation
• Logging/Auditability

12. Characteristics of a Preferred Solution
Functionality – Ease of Use
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• Simplicity of GUI
• SLA and Policy Awareness
• Root Cause Analysis
• Mobile Device Support
• Available Help Resources

13. Characteristics of a Preferred Solution
Deployment & Administration
Ease of Deployment
• Deployment Time/Effort
• Conversion Facilities
• Job Discovery and Import
• Staff Training
Support and Services
• Customer Support
• Professional Services
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14. Characteristics of a Preferred Solution
Deployment & Administration
Ease of Administration
• Console ease-of-use
• Upgrade process
• Test Environments
• Automation of Management
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15. Characteristics of a Preferred Solution
Cost Advantage
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• Flexibility of Licensing
• Model Pricing Scenarios
• SaaS Availability
• Professional Services

16. Characteristics of a Preferred Solution
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• Vendor Strength
• Vendor and product set should have long-term viability
 Financially strong
 Reinvests in research and
development
• Extensive partnerships
 Market channels
 Strategic development
• Strong vision and strategy
• Market credibility

17. The EMA RADAR Report for Workload Automation
EMA WLA RADAR Evaluation Process
• Develop list of critical WLA features and capabilities
• Establish KPIs
• Identify candidates
• Submit questionnaire to candidates
 More than 150 points of comparison
 Vet responses to ensure accuracy
• Conduct customer interviews
• Analyze and score results
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18. The EMA RADAR Report for Workload Automation
Feature Eligibility
Features must have been generally available with the
solution set at the time of the evaluation
Features must have been self-contained within the
included package sets
Features must have been clearly documented in publically
available resources (such as user manuals or technical
papers) for verification
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19. The EMA RADAR Report for Workload Automation
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Scenario 1
 250 endpoints (50 Windows, 50 Unix, 150 Linux) with 2 CPU sockets (4
cores each)
 z/OS Mainframe (10,000 MIPS)
 High availability setup of the entire implementation
 Specified years of maintenance and upgrades
 Specified years of highest level of support
 DR license
 Connectors for SAP

20. The EMA RADAR Report for Workload Automation
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Scenario 2
 300 overall deployed tasks (30 Windows, 30 Unix, 30 Linux endpoints)
with 2 sockets (4 cores each)
 High availability setup of the entire implementation
 Specified years of maintenance and upgrades
 Specified years of highest level of support
 DR license

21. The EMA RADAR Report for Workload Automation
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Scenario 3
 800 endpoints
 Highly available setup
 Specified years of maintenance and upgrades
 Specified years of highest level of support
 DR license
Scenario 4
 SaaS
 250 endpoints
 Specified years of highest level of support

22. EMA RADAR For Workload Automation: Q4 2017
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EMA WLA RADAR Report market landscape chart
• Solution Impact combines scores for Functionality
and Architecture & Integration
• Deployment Cost Efficiency combines scores for
Cost Advantage and Deployment and
Administration
• Vendor Strength is represented by the size of
each bubble
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23. The EMA RADAR Report for Workload Automation
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WLA Strong Value
• Arvato Systems
• Tidal
• Flux
• InfiniteDATA
• SMA
• Vinzant
WLA Targeted Value
• Arcana WLA Value Leaders
• ASCI
• BMC
• CA Automic
• HelpSystems
• IBM
• MVP Systems
• Stonebranch

24. WLA Enrichment Products
Predictive Analytics
• Terma Software
TermaUNIFY, TermaANALYTICS, TermaINSIGHT, TermaVision
• Digitate
ignio for batch
• SMA
Ascern
Independent Agent Network
• Beta Systems
Beta 92 EJM
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25. Special Recognition Awards
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Special recognition awards identify vendors that deliver a
specific area of strength and/or unique areas of innovation

26. Future Trends in Workload Automation
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 Full web services support and embedded
scheduling
 Monitoring and control of release process
 User community awareness
 Agent change management
 Data awareness, file transfer control, and
manipulation
 Increased self-service and business stakeholder
involvement
 Machine learning/AI and cognitive computing

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