In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, development teams increasingly leverage powerful cloud-native tools to design and build sophisticated applications. Available in cloud environments like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, these tools offer unparalleled scalability, flexibility, and efficiency, making them ideal for modern application development. However, when it comes to scheduling, these tools often fall short. Like those available for ITSM, their scheduling and integration capabilities are still in their infancy and lack the robust features necessary to deliver high-quality services.

This is why Broadcom automation solutions, including AutoSys and Automic Automation, are essential. They provide comprehensive capabilities for managing scheduling responsibilities and are tightly integrated into cloud technologies. It’s important to note that delegating scheduling to specialized tools is not a new practice—it’s how enterprise ERP scheduling has been successfully managed for SAP and Oracle systems for decades.

Here are nine reasons why delegating scheduling can be a game-changer for your cloud-based technologies.

1. Advanced scheduling capabilities for the cloud

Automation solutions from Broadcom offer advanced scheduling features for the cloud that go beyond the basic capabilities of most cloud-native tools. With these solutions, you can create complex scheduling workflows essential for running enterprise-grade applications. These solutions offer these capabilities:

Dependency management

You can create and enforce dependencies between different tasks and workflows, ensuring that processes run in the correct order and only when all prerequisites are met.

Error handling and recovery

In a failure, you can automatically trigger recovery actions or notifications, minimizing downtime and ensuring business continuity.

Event-based scheduling

Whether you need to run tasks daily, weekly, monthly, at specific times, or when a business event demands it, automation solutions from  Broadcom provide precise control over scheduling, something that many cloud-native tools struggle with.

2. Scalability and flexibility

While cloud-native tools excel at scaling applications, their scheduling components often fail to keep up. Designed to handle large-scale environments, Broadcom solutions are always accessible due to their native high availability. With our enterprise automation solutions, you  can coordinate millions of tasks across the multi-generational landscape of applications, whether running on-premises or in the cloud. You can manage hundreds of thousands of endpoints on which execution needs to occur. This scalability ensures that as your application grows, your scheduling capabilities can grow with it—without any loss of performance or reliability. In addition, Automic Automation is now available as a SaaS solution, a Kubernetes edition, and a traditional on-premises application.

3. Centralized control and visibility for efficient cloud scheduling

Automation solutions from Broadcom offer centralized control and monitoring capabilities that provide a significant advantage. You can oversee all your scheduling tasks from a single interface, regardless of the underlying cloud platform. Detailed logging and reporting give you insights into the performance and status of your scheduled tasks.

4. Proactive SLA management

One of the essential benefits of automation solutions from Broadcom is  their ability to effectively manage service level agreements (SLAs), providing comprehensive insights into the performance and compliance of your scheduling processes. Our solutions offer these capabilities:

• Proactive monitoring: By continuously monitoring the performance of your tasks, you can ensure SLA compliance and identify any potential issues before they have an impact on service delivery.
• Predictive analytics: Using the solution’s historical information and advanced analytics, you can predict future performance trends, which will help you optimize your scheduling processes and consistently meet your SLAs.
• Detailed reporting: Gain in-depth analytics on SLA compliance, which will give you the information needed to demonstrate compliance to stakeholders and identify areas for improvement.

5. Enhanced security and compliance

Consolidating operational control and task scheduling simplifies security and auditing compliance. Broadcom automation solutions offer robust security measures, including role-based access control, encryption, audit trails, and integration into industry-standard technologies such as LDAP, SAML 2.0, and MFA. You also get integration with corporate vaults, such as Cyberark. These features ensure that your scheduling processes comply with industry standards and regulations, protect sensitive data, and maintain the integrity of your operations.

6. Seamless integration with your existing IT infrastructure

Broadcom solutions integrate seamlessly with a wide range of systems and applications, both on premises and in the cloud. With this integration capability, you can leverage advanced scheduling features without disrupting your existing workflows. Whether you’re using legacy systems or modern cloud-based applications, Automic and AutoSys can bridge the gap, providing a consistent and reliable scheduling solution.

7. Boost core competencies with automated workload scheduling

By delegating scheduling responsibilities, your development and operations teams can focus on their core competencies—designing, building, and deploying innovative applications. Broadcom solutions handle the complexities of scheduling, allowing your teams to concentrate on delivering value to your customers and staying ahead of the competition.

8. Accelerate time-to-market with rapid cloud workload deployment

By using pre-built low-code or no-code integrations from the Automation Marketplace, you can quickly integrate various cloud technologies from each of the main vendors and create complex dependencies between them. In addition, parameters can quickly be passed between AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure without creating custom paths.

In addition, no code needs to be written to add complex calendars, define SLAs, create tickets, and perform many other tasks.  

9. Future-proof your cloud workloads with abstraction layer technology

In the dynamic cloud computing world, Broadcom automation solutions can act as an abstraction layer across multiple technologies and vendors. Airflow is the go-to for ETL automation in the cloud today, but future technologies may emerge. If Airflow becomes outdated, replacing it with a tool like Prefect or Dagster would be more straightforward with an enterprise automation solution. Only the ETL flows themselves would need updating, while schedules, ticketing integrations, and SLA definitions could remain unchanged. This principle also applies when switching cloud providers, ensuring seamless transitions without significant re-engineering efforts.

Augmenting your cloud stack with automation solutions from Broadcom

While cloud-native tools are indispensable for designing and building modern applications, their scheduling capabilities often do not meet the demands of high-quality service delivery. Automation solutions from Broadcom fill this gap by providing advanced, scalable, and secure scheduling capabilities that integrate seamlessly with your existing systems.

Investing in Broadcom automation solutions to augment the core capabilities of your cloud stack represents a strategic move toward operational excellence and business success. By leveraging a proven solution, you can ensure reliable and efficient operations, enabling your business to thrive in today’s competitive business landscape.

Visit the automation solutions page to find out more about our advanced scheduling capabilities for the cloud.