Customer Case StudyThe Olayan GroupKyriakos BassinasInformation Systems Managerk.bassinas@olayangroup.com

Agenda About The Olayan Group The need of an Enterprise Scheduler Projects steps Lessons learned Summary and questions

About the Olayan Group Launched 67 years ago by Suliman S. Olayan Wholly owned multi-national trading & investment Major global investor

Olayan’s Strategy Maintain a long-term horizon Regard large investments as partnerships Get to know and trust senior management Solid fundamentals

Olayan’s Portfolio Public equities Private equities Real estate Fixed income securities Other specialized assets

Global Reach Athens London New York Riyadh Vienna

Project need Absence of an Enterprise workload automation Too many applications to coordinate Manage and coordinate overnight batch process Alert for any EOD batch failure Consolidate and Produce reports on time Self service for business users

Step 1 – Find the best tools Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Workload

Automation

Step 2 – Define evaluation criteria Time-based scheduling Event-based scheduling End-to-End Automation driven by Business needs Microsoft 100% compatible Accessible to Business Users Integration with systems such as Misys, e-Front, Navision,

Princeton Financials, IBM Cognos, Microsoft Excel etc. Flexible Pricing Auto-diagnose and resolve issues Auditing capabilities

Step 3 – POC Proof of Concept from each candidate Final candidate selection

Lessons Learned Complexity of the integration of various systems Business re-engineering Group jobs under logical categories per business All jobs should be assigned to a BIM POC is now always part of our PMP

Results Syntax & BMC worked closely with Olayan Live in 3 months Unattended overnight batch process EOD batch process reduced to 90 minutes Business users are adding more & more jobs BMC Control-M is a core system in our

infrastructure BMC BIM provides dynamic real-time alerts Minimal human intervention

Questions