NAPLES, Fla.--BUSINESS WIRE--ASG Software Solutions, a worldwide leader in business solutions for global enterprises, today announced general availability of ASG-Zena™ 3.0, the latest version of ASG’s flagship distributed workload automation solution. ASG-Zena 3.0 offers robust scheduling and complete workload automation capabilities across both physical and virtual server environments.

The latest release of Zena further extends its integration capabilities in virtual environments with automated provisioning and management of virtual servers through VMware interface support. Additionally, Zena’s unmatched support for leading industry application environments such as SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle has been upgraded to include support for Oracle Grid Engine, additional Oracle SQL links and enhanced SAP Business Intelligence capabilities.

ASG-Zena 3.0 cost-effectively manages the throughput of workloads throughout the enterprise while providing unmatched data collection and correlation capabilities across platforms, technologies, applications, and business services. With ASG-Zena 3.0, IT Operations Directors can facilitate workload automation across multiple operating environments successfully, while monitoring hundreds of thousands of workloads daily. Additionally, IT departments can effectively monitor and manage service level delivery for business critical workloads on distributed, mainframe and virtualized platforms while accelerating productivity by automating real-time, event-based, and batch scheduling.

News Facts

• ASG-Zena 3.0’s unique architecture extends centralized management for enterprise IT environments by easily integrating with ASG-Zeke for mainframes. The integration delivers organizations true enterprise-wide workload automation across both virtual and physical IT environments
  • Centralized management enables organizations to:
    • Continuously monitor the high level health of their complete scheduling environment
    • Receive real-time service level performance of critical scheduling activities and workloads, including those activities at risk due to unplanned events and changes
    • On-demand insight into the actual real-time scheduling workload activities reflecting the impact of key processes, platforms and applications across the organization
• ASG-Zena is an industry recognized best-of-breed workload automation engine for distributed environments offering support for both time-based and event-based automation
• Integrates and supports multiple platforms including UNIX, AIX, Solaris, Windows, Linux, AS400 and z/OS
• As an XML based application, ASG-Zena seamlessly integrates across application development and server environments including Web Services, .NET, J2EE, FTP, HTTP, SMTP and ADO. This capability eliminates the need for manual scripting and allows for easy integration with third-party solutions

Supporting Quotes

Albert Lee, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Management Associates

• “Traditional distributed scheduling tools require constant monitoring of extremely complex and fragmented IT environments in a reactive manner, which can cause large amounts of operational expenses and resources for IT Operations Directors. With Zena 3.0, ASG continues to provide a robust, enterprise-wide workload management solution for multi-platform environments that support ‘event-based’ scheduling as well as traditional date- and time-based scheduling methodologies.”

Ed Hallock, Senior Director of Solutions Management, ASG

• "ASG Zena 3.0 is a breakthrough release further positioning ASG at the forefront of the transition from traditional distributed job scheduling to true workload automation. With automated provisioning support for VMware environments and a further extension of ASG’s vast application and adaptor support we continue to help our customers and prospects manage their cross-platform and increasingly complex Operational environments.”

Supporting Resources

• Availability: Immediately
• ASG-Zena 3.0 Solution Sheet
• ASG Enterprise Workload Automation
• ASG-Distributed Workload Automation
• White paper: “Business-Critical Benefits of Workload Automation Solutions,” EMA Research
• EMA Radar report for Workload Automation - Q1 '10

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ASG provides a full range of practical software solutions that help IT organizations lower costs, save time, and make proactive decisions that drive business success. Best known for its broad portfolio of best-value, results-driven technologies, ASG partners with 85 percent of the world's largest companies to optimize IT service delivery in both mainframe and distributed environments. Founded in 1986, ASG is a privately held global company based in Naples, Fla., with more than 70 offices worldwide.