Using CA Workload Automation to Manage and Monitor Business Processes in SAP® Solution Manager

Using CA Workload Automation to Manage and Monitor Business Processes in SAP® Solution Manager

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Karthik Mahadevan, Sr. Principal Product ManagerCA Technologies

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AbstractCompanies typically have a need to automate workloads

spanning ERP and non-ERP applications. However, traditionally

they have been required to switch between built-in schedulers

and external schedulers to manage end-end workloads.

This session discusses how CA Workload Automation (CA WA)

can help you improve business productivity and lower costs

with the ability to schedule, change, reschedule and cancel CA

Workload Automation AE (formerly CA AutoSys®) jobs directly

from SAP Solution Manager. We’ll also discuss CA Workload’s

plans around for integrating with SAP products such as BW, BO

and PI.

Karthik Mahadevan

CA Technologies

Sr. Principal Product Manager


Agenda

OVERVIEW: CA WORKLOAD AUTOMATION ADVANCED INTEGRATION FOR SAP

CA WA AE & SAP SOLUTION MANAGER

Q&A

CA WA AE & SAP NETWEAVER BUSINESS WAREHOUSE

RECOMMENDED SESSIONS

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SAP Business Intelligence Integration

CA WA Scheduling Engines

Overview: CA WA Advanced Integration for SAP

XBP / JXBP(SAP APIs, currently partially available)

AE DE ESP CA 7

Business Objects BI Integration

(Future offering)

Integrate with Business Objects BI

Manage Hana Jobs

Business Warehouse Integration (AE Only)

HANA Jobs (Future

Offering)

Manage jobs scheduled in CA’s WA products from SAP’s BW interface

MainframeDistributedDistributed Mainframe

Process Integration

(Planned, All Engines)

Integrate SAP & non-SAP solutions such as P2P, O2C, Informatica… etc.

Solution Manager (Currently Available, AE only)

Manage CA WA jobs from SAP’s Solution Manager interface

SAP Agent(Currently Available,

All Engines)

Execute SAP ABAP Jobs from CA WA Scheduling Engines


Agenda



Q&A



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SAP users and IT groups work closely to manage workload

IT - Workload Automation Team

Information Systems

SAP Business Users Mobility

Manufacturing Business intelligence

Open TicketCreate Business

Justification

Provide details to

IT Clarify details

Complete testingRepeat test as

needed

Test on QA

environment

Create job in

scheduling engine

MOVE TO PROD!!Open change

process ticketREPEAT!!

Upload reports,

validate

Up to 2

Weeks

in

many

cases!!

Some jobs managed through Solution Manager

CA WA AE & SAP Solution Manager


Plenty of challenges to overcome..

Limited ability to schedule both SAP and external jobs through a single SAP interface• Solution Manager is usually limited to SAP jobs

Heterogeneous Environment and Tools• Team productivity, experience, knowledge• Placing workloads - “right place , right time”

Slow responsiveness to the business• No central location to document all jobs



CA Workload Automation AE Integration for SAP Solution Manager

SAP Certified Solution

Extend Solution Manager’s capability to manage CA Workload Automation AE (CA

WA AE) Jobs

Reduce effort associated with training users on multiple scheduling engines

Provide a central location to document jobs

Optimize Performance And Reduce the Cost ofManaging SAP and non-SAP Workloads

Simplicity for decreased management cost and complexity Visibility into interdependencies and efficiencies Agility to support dynamic workload provisioning, optimization

and management



Essentially, the process becomes really simple.

IT - Workload Automation Team

Information Systems

SAP Business Users Mobility

Manufacturing Business intelligence

Open Solution

Manager

Import jobs from

AE or create new

Provide details to

IT

Verify and move to

Prod!

Accelerate overall process flow & focus on business needs!!



Solution Manager Integration: Overview Diagram

SMSE

Server

SMSE

Server

SMSE

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SMSE

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CA AutoSys Environment

SAP Environment

SAP ECC

Other ApplicationsSolution Manager

Workload Automation

LicensedConnector

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CA WA AE – Solution Manager Integration: Use Cases

Job Scheduling – Extend CA WA’s reach to SAP-centric user community

– Standalone Job Scheduling – SAP-centric user interface for simple job

creation/modification

– Job Documentation – Include external jobs in SAP’s Project Documentation application

– Detailed Job Request – Enable business users to request the

creation/modification/deletion of job. Fully integrated with SAP SOLMAN Incident

Management/Change Management

Job Monitoring – Empower business users to monitor/manage CA WA job

execution

– Job Listing – At-a-glance listing of job executions

– Business Process Monitor – Proactive rule-based SAP BPmon notifications from WA job

execution



Job Scheduling: Standalone Use Case

Create Detailed Job Request

Create Job Scheduling Details

Create Job in WA

Schedule Job End

Create Job Scheduling Request

Schedule Job

Create Detailed

Job RequestEnd

Create Job in CA WA



Job Scheduling: Job Documentation Use Case



Create Job in WA

Schedule Job End

Enter Job Documentation Details

Enter SAP System / Solution

Create Job Documentation

End

Create Job in CA WA

Create Job Scheduling

Details

Approve Job Documentation

Schedule Job



Job Scheduling: Detailed Job Request Use Case



Create Job in WA

Schedule Job End

Enter Job Request Details


Details

Create Detailed

Job Request

End

Create Job in CA WA

Approve Job

Request

Schedule Job



Job Monitoring: Business Process Monitoring Use Case

Cre

ation

Execu

tion



Create Job in WA

Schedule Job End

Enter Job Documentation Details

Enter SAP System / Solution

Create Job Documentation

End


Details

Schedule Job

Enable Notification

Create Bpmon

Notification

Enable Notification



Create Job in WA

Schedule Job End

Job StartJob

ExecutionNotification

Process

Receive Bpmon

Notification

End

Create Job in CA WA



Summary

Extend Solution Manager Capability to manage CA WA AE Jobs

Reduce the cost and complexity of managing mission critical SAP & Non-SAP jobs

Increase staff efficiency with automation of CA WA AE jobs and job chain management

Enable the documentation of jobs defined in CA WA AE.



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End-End workflows that involve CA WA AE jobs and BW jobs cannot be managed from a central location

Limited ability to add CA WLA jobs within a process chain• CA WLA can call a BW process chain, but cannot be a job within

the process chain

Heterogeneous Environment and Tools• Team productivity, experience, knowledge• Placing workloads - “right place , right time”

Slow responsiveness to the business• No central location to monitor end-end BW workflows

CA WA AE & SAP BW


The AE – BW integration will allow AE jobs to be part of BW process chains

Traditional BW jobs

AE Jobs

Traditional BW jobs

CA WA AE & SAP BW

Key Takeaways

Allow SAP BW users to include WLA AE jobs as part of BW

process chain

Reduce the cost and complexity of managing End-End workflows

Increase staff efficiency with automation of AE jobs and job

chain management

NOTE: If you would like to participate in our Sprint reviews and provide feedback, please contact Karthik Mahadevan [email protected]


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SAP SOLUTION MANAGER

SAP BUSINESS WAREHOUSE

SAP PROCESS INTEGRATION

SAP BUSINESS OBJECTS

BIG DATA (HADOOP)

Polling/Voting

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Which solutions do you anticipate integrating with CA Workload Automation in the next 12 – 18 months?

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