Introducing HCL Automation Power Suite for Z Bundle to Automate More, Better and Smarter

HCL Software announced the introduction of HCL Automation Power Suite for Z bundle offering comprising of HCL Workload Automation for Z and HCL Clara for Z. With Automation Power Suite, customers can automate more, automate better and automate smarter to build an enterprise automation platform.   

Introducing the most powerful automation offering that has best products, processes, practices and price together!  

• HCL Workload Automation for Z: Seamlessly orchestrate business-critical processes against business KPIs, from a centralized point of control across platforms (from mainframe to containers). 
• HCL Clara: The Intelligent Virtual Assistant, enhancing HCL Workload Automation for Z customers’ experience with natural language processing interactions and smart actions.  
• Automation Hub: A marketplace to expand the automation capabilities of modern digital enterprises to new domains with a collection of cutting-edge integrations – available on the Automation Hub catalog – covering a wide spectrum of automation needs, from IT tasks to business processes. 

Get ease of use with HCL Automation Power Suite for Z. Want to know how, discover the benefits:

HCL WORKLOAD AUTOMATION for Z 

A digital transformation booster
HCL Workload Automation for Z helps you automate beyond the boundaries, supporting multiple platforms, providing an advanced integration with enterprise applications such as SAP (Workload Automation is HANA S/4 certified), Oracle, Salesforce, and more, as well as with cloud resources, database/ETL management and more. Simplify and standardize the connection and orchestration of workloads from and to business intelligence and data processing applications with 90+ out-of-the-box plugins available on the Automation Hub and 100+ supported technologies.  

Lowest TCO on the market
Stop worrying about costs, start enjoying all of the Workload Automation features.
There are no hidden costs: you buy HCL Workload Automation for Z and HCL Workload Automation zCentric jobs we give you the whole suite of plugins to easily connect activities and resources from common ERPs, Clouds, Databases, APIs, plus an all-inclusive product license with advanced capabilities and multiplatform support.  

Simplify and control complexity
HCL Workload Automations for Z allows you to easily design the dynamic resolution of complex applications interdependencies in heterogeneous ecosystems. Schedulers and Operators love it for its flexibility and scalability, and Executives feels safer with a robust long-time market leader technology that takes care of the organization business continuity. 

​HCL CLARA 

HCL Clara offers a human-like, personalized, round-the-clock experience to HCL Workload Automation for Z users, which will:  

• Minimize the FAQ-type calls  
• Speed up learning curve on new features  
• Reduce common-issue repetitive incidents  
• Promote best practices 

SIMPLE TO GET STARTED 
Learn how to use various functions and work-arounds, and get your actions done on HCL Workload Automation for Z in simple conversations at your convenience with HCL Clara. 

Manage How-To Questions  

• Get me started with building my process (jobs, APIs..)  
• How to use calendar or event-based scheduling 
• Understand new features 
• Semantic search in HCL Workload Automation for Z documentation 

Support Self-Service Scenarios  

• Submit Services from HCL Workload Automation for Z Self-Service Catalog
• Submit a jobsteam
• Re-run/cancel/release/hold job  
• Check job status and push notification for job status changes 
• High risk critical jobs 
• Download job log  

Troubleshoot Workload and Monitoring Scenarios

• Get the jobs in error in the current plan
• Get the critical jobs in the current plan
• Monitoring a job
• Get the status of a workstation
• Get the overall status of the current plan

HCL Software Automation Power Suite for Z offers perpetual pricing model! Contacts us at  HWAinfo@hcl.com.     
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For more information, visit https://www.hcltechsw.com/automationpowersuite or tune into the Automation Series | Podcast.  

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Author's Bio

​Ernesto Carrabba, Product Manager, HCL Clara & HCL HERO for Workload Automation

Ernesto Carrabba is the Product Manager both for HCL HERO and HCL Clara for Workload Automation. Ernesto is a very dynamic product manager with experience in building and launching IoT products, combined with a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and study researches on Augmented and Virtual Reality.

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Marco Cardelli - Workload Automation Product Manager

Marco has been working with IBM since 1990 and on IBM Workload Scheduler for z/OS since 1995. He started on IBM Workload Scheduler for z/OS as a L3 support specialist and then joined the development team as chief designer starting with IBM Workload Scheduler for z/OS 8.3. In 2015 he became architect of the IBM Workload Scheduler for z/OS product. In September 2016, as part of the new partnership agreement between IBM and HCL, he moved to the new HCL Products & Platforms division. Since January 2017 he left the development team and joined the Workload Automation Offering team.