A dashboard has been added to offer administrators a better view of how well SLAs are being met. "You can start to do things on the fly, to make sure you do the right things to stay in your SLA requirements," Manias said. An SLA may state something like a given job must be finished within a specified period of time, or that it be finished by a certain time of the day.

A number of other features have been added as well. The monitoring and alerting capabilities have been upgraded to monitor more sophisticated workloads. The company has added more templates to its integrated jobs library, including ones for running integrating components of the Oracle E-Business Suite into a single workflow. The software has been configured to work with Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS), which will allow a development team to automate routine processes in the course of developing software within TFS.

ActiveBatch 9.0 starts at about US$20,000.

The IDG News Service