This paper highlights five major “focus” areas for implementing WLA - application integration, end-to-end workflow mapping, enterprise visibility and management, service-driven management, and dynamic workflow resourcing. These focus areas are relatively independent of each other, providing modular, flexible, and achievable steps for practical WLA implementation.

Workload Automation - Best Practices and Benefits

WLA - The SMART Approach

Overcoming Obstacles to WLA Efficiency

A Modular Approach with BMC's Product Suite

EMA Perspective

This paper proposes a high-level methodology for implementation of Workload Automation (WLA) - a mature evolution of job scheduling that automates complex IT processing and includes support for event-driven workloads, multiple platforms, Web services, composite applications, SOAs, virtual systems, system and application integration, business alignment, and more.