ADVANCED BANNER^® AUTOMATION

If you’re a typical Banner^® installation, your work requires a multitude of daily, repetitive Banner tasks that take time away from the things you need to do. You may spend your day processing everything from Financial Aid Statements to Academic Administration to Enrollment and Recruitment.

With 30+ years of Enterprise job scheduling experience and extensive experience automating Banner^® procedures for many education institutions, EnterpriseSCHEDULE from ISE is the Banner automation tool that you’ve been looking for.

ISE has built a suite of Banner^® jobs that are designed to automate the most common tasks that you do daily, weekly or monthly. The Graphical Interface is augmented with custom Banner^® dialogs that facilitate quick updating of parameters and overrides. Changes to file locations, passwords, file formats etc. can quickly be updated.

EnterpriseSCHEDULE coupled with Banner^® simplifies the automation of Banner tasks using features such as interdependencies and resources to assure a uniform job stream every time. Need a database update to complete before running a report? EnterpriseSCHEDULE job streams make it easy to be sure your jobs only run when all the requirements have been met.

Key Features

• Tightly coupled with Banner^® through a variety of customized job configurations designed specifically for users to automate tasks
• Combines the built in security of Banner^® with EnterpriseSCHEDULE’s multi-tiered secure environment.
• Includes a core library of job templates which can be used to quickly create Banner^® jobsets that perform the most essential and repetitive tasks
• Develop simple to use job streams that rely on time, resources, interdependencies and other logical factors to determine the flow of critical system events
• Receive continuous and current feedback on your Banner® job activity through email notification alerts and monitor alerts of job status

Security and Fault Tolerance

Manage Banner jobs from a single point of control EnterpriseSCHEDULE’s graphical display provides a real time view of all connected nodes and platforms across an enterprise. This gives you complete access to the custom properties, status, current state and historical log data of all your Banner® jobs.

EnterpriseSCHEDULE is renowned for its dependability and fault tolerance. Any number of Security Groups are enforced at the host and user level. This eliminates any single point of failure that is the downfall of many job schedulers.

Features

Enterprise job scheduling has become a vital part of today’s enterprises both large and small . It has become an essential tool to perform the many automated processes that IT managers are responsible for. EnterpriseSCHEDULE is the preeminent Enterprise wide job scheduler on Windows, OpenVMS, Linux, HP-UX, Sun Solaris and AIX and is backed by more than 25 years of experience in the field.

Control, manage and monitor your workflow

• Single point of control from Windows, Web and Command Line user interfaces
• Explorer view allows Windows style administration of jobs, calendars, etc.
• Job streams can be edited and controlled in Windows graphical layout
• Objects are organized in file/directory hierarchy
• Intuitive command set
• Optimizes automated processing allowing more work to be accomplished without intervention.
• Reduces personnel costs by allowing employees to focus on less repetitive and time consuming tasks
• Launches jobs based on time or events reducing potential for human error
• Reduce operating costs by eliminating manual tasking of repetitive and laborious processes
• Centralizes the management of tasks scheduled throughout an enterprise
• Performs routine system maintenence and data processing tasks during off hours
• Implements simple or complex job streams based on the successful completion of other jobs or resource (file or hardware) requirements.
• Control job activity across platforms on multiple servers using a powerful and easy to use Windows interface
• Maintains jobs, calendars and other objects in a centralized or distributed database that utilizes a shared data format across platforms
• Distributes the database around a cluster or across a network and systematically configured as needed.
• Selectively deliver exception messages to a pager, an e-mail system or as a pop up message in the Windows interface.

Diversity and Scalability

Because the EnterpriseSCHEDULE system is diverse across a full spectrum of platforms, it saves time and money in purchase time, reduction in maintenence costs and the need for additional servers.

Fault tolerance

• High Availability fault tolerant server logic includes multiple level exception handling at code level
• Handles system errors and unforeseen errors
• Server rollover at cluster level
• Definable server activity classes