The Workload Automation transformation, from commodity to opportunity

DevOps, Digital Transformation, Big Data, Microservices, Containers, and Analytics are just a few of the key trends impacting the concept and strategies of Workload Automation (WLA).  

Fostered by the increasing need for intelligent automation, major WLA solutions available on the market are transforming and developing an advanced roadmap to sustain and accelerate the transformation of the most advanced organizations that recognize in these solutions a real opportunity. 

Thanks to my deep and long experience as WA L3 Support Manager, assisting thousands of customers in the WLA area, I really recognize now a shift in the need for an advanced WLA solution based on innovation and able to really assist organizations during a new journey in the Cloud and Digital Transformation Era! 
 
The huge investment being done by HCL Technologies in accelerating the roadmap of the HCL Workload Automation (HWA) solution is already leading to concrete facts with the availability of the powerful HCL Workloads Automation on AWS to support the Cloud Transformation with a solution designed “in the Cloud” and “for the Cloud”.   
 
The growth of the Cloud and the use of applications offered as-a-service have reignited the need to orchestrate flows of unattended actions. New innovations with HWA bring added value to organizations to increase their productivity and governance of enterprise critical workloads. HWA can help reduce operational costs and deploy new services faster, providing assistance with deep analytics and proactive control of critical workload running across multiple applications. 
 
From a single point of control, HWA supports multiple platforms in hybrid environments (on-premises, on cloud, mainframe), leveraging containerization. It provides advanced integration with enterprise applications like SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, and offers a wide catalogue of out-of-the-box plugins including integration with FTP and Hadoop. 

Connect and De-risk, Control and Optimize the batch execution of workload triggered by events or based on calendar definitions with an end-to-end control of the business and a proper integration with ticketing system, obtaining a complete open solution to assist your digital transformation with advanced Rest API(s)! 

HWA enables your Cloud transformation with elastic scaling, flexible runcycles, and event driven functionalities to properly automate the management of VM lifecycle for a controlled usage of resources: 

HCL Workload Automation (https://www.hcltech.com/products-and-platforms/workload-automation#aws-marketplace) is the HCL batch scheduling tool proposed as enterprise scheduler. It is an advanced, intelligent solution able to assist organizations in consolidating all the enterprise batch scheduling, leveraging on the Cloud, with a single point of control through an advanced User Interface, and a smart virtual assistant bot – Clara - to deliver embedded L1 support! 
 
The availability of Clara, the Workload Automation assistant bot, integrated with HWA through Rest APIs, opens the solution to end-users and enables the possibility to move from a centralized scheduling model to an open scheduling as-a-service, providing the functionality directly to the Line of Business (LoB), with important opex reduction and business opportunities for an advanced automation journey. 

HCL Clara is the automation bot that enables users to quickly learn how to use HWA for an effective workload automation adoption. Clara can access the company's automation knowledge base, provides recommendations and performs tasks for the end-user. 
 
HWA and Clara enable enterprises to respond quickly to real-time business needs providing 7x24 first level support. Clara saves operations time, frees up schedulers, manages how-to questions, and initiates the troubleshooting of Workload Automation conveniently through voice commands or simple text chat. By offering a conversational interface to scheduling users, Clara can access the company's automation knowledge base, provide recommendations and perform tasks for the end-users.  
 
WLA must now be considered a STRATEGY, an enabler for the control and expansion of the business in the new Digital ERA! 
 
You can now request a free HCL Workload Automation migration assessment for a cost-effective HWA adoption proposal to help enable your workload automation transformation and initiate your new journey with our passionate and expert team! 

Contact HWAinfo@hcl.com to reserve a slot for a 1-1 meeting with our product experts to help you design your workload automation transformation, and get a one-month POC to demonstrate in your environment how to migrate to HWA. 
Are you worried about the future of your current IT scheduler? Have you been looking for a future-proof IT & Apps Workload Automation solution? HCL Technologies is here to help you with that! 

Experience rewarding benefits with the adoption of HWA and Clara with embedded L1 support. 

Our product experts are prepared to help you seamlessly migrate your workflows to HCL Workload Automation.  Wish you a great day! 

​Thanks,
Francesca 
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Francesca Curzi
Senior Regional Sales and Services Director

Francesca works in the Product and Platform division of HCL in the Rome Lab in Italy. She loves to embrace new challenges, is committed to reaching her goals, establishing relationship beyond the contract, gaining trust from her customers, helping them in expanding their business, and sponsoring innovation for a continuous transformation. 

​Francesca leads the IBM Workload Automation L3 support team for multiple years, assisting with passion and deep commitment enterprises adopting the Workload Automation solution. Thanks to this direct and deep expertise, She is now responsible for the selling of the HCL Workload Automation (HWA) solution, working with customers on their new workload automation transformation journey!