United Natural Foods is the largest publicly traded wholesale distributor to the natural and organic foods industry. Carrying more than 32,000 SKUs, the company supplies over 14,000 customers nationwide and services a wide variety of retail formats, including super natural chains, independent natural product retailers and conventional supermarkets. Providing information systems support to such a massive operation can be pretty taxing on a staff but according to Ron Donohue of UNF , it is a lot easier using EnterpriseSCHEDULE from ISE. When they came to ISE for a solution to their OpenVMS and Windows batch scheduling woes, UNF had been summarily dissatisfied with the scheduling product they were using. With a total of about 600 jobs running on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis, the previous scheduler was unreliable and often ran unscheduled processes. More...   EnterpriseSCHEDULE offers users advanced conditional job flow EnterpriseSCHEDULE gives you more control of your job flow with fully programmable resources. Using this powerful feature, you can add crucial decision points that allow you to control execution based on variable evaluation. With the built in conventional programming tools, a job stream can be based on a wide variety of algorithms. Job streams can be simple or complex and can evaluate the availability of system resources. These streams, which are viewable in a live display, are automated and optionally redundant making them both interdependent and user controlled.   Flexible job organization is a key feature of EnterpriseBACKUP Each company's archival and storage needs are unique. EnterpriseBACKUP allows users to organize and track incremental, full and ad hoc backups on a user-defined basis, including daily, weekly, monthly and yearly time frames. This ensures that the IT department backs up the necessary data within the necessary window.   How does one go about getting help for EnterpriseSCHEDULE? Regardless of platform, there is a wide variety of help formats and documents available to EnterpriseSCHEDULE users and administrators. If you are mainly interested in using the Windows GUI to control and maintain your job activity, you can easily access help by selecting Help Topics from the Help menu. This will bring up a comprehensive help window that describes all aspects of the GUI including the Explorer, the Layout and the Monitor. It also includes a chapter on the scheduling concepts that one should understand when scheduling jobs on any platform. This help resource is also available as a PDF file for Adobe Acrobat.  More...   Does EnterpriseSCHEDULE have a Banner interface? Can EnterpriseSCHEDULE deliver that interface to the user's desk even though Banner is running in the back office? Yes, EnterpriseSCHEDULE can simplify the Scheduling and Monitoring of all of your Banner functions. A complete set of tools to administer and track Banner is part of the standard installation. No add-on costs are required. Below depicts some of the desk top interface. More...

Earlier this month ISE attended and presented EnterpriseSCHEDULE at the InterSystems DEVCON 2005 conference in Rancho Mirage, CA. The conference which showcased Cache' and Ensemble -- the database and integration solutions from InterSystems and also featured their Application Partners, including ISE. EnterpriseSCHEDULE has been seamlessly integrated with Cache' at a number of mutual customers, including the IDX solutions. This further depicts the ease that EnterpriseSCHEDULE interfaces with other solutions. Please give us a call if you would like an alternative to scheduling your Cache' based systems.   Partners: