About Automic SaaS

Automic SaaS offers the powerful enterprise automation capabilities of Automic Automation as a SaaS deployment. Automic SaaS provides a single point of control that unifies and simplifies automation across mainframe, distributed, and hybrid cloud environments. With the SaaS delivery model, you offload the management of the underlying automation engine and database to Broadcom and optimize costs with predictable, subscription-based pricing. You also get the latest features faster as well as a solution that dynamically expands to meet peak performance needs.

Automic SaaS is Automic Automation Kubernetes Edition hosted on the Google Cloud Platform.

For detailed information about Automic SaaS, see:

• Automic SaaS Service Description

• Automic SaaS Basic Terms and Concepts

• Getting Started with Automic SaaS for Administrators

  • Clients and Users in Automic SaaS

• Getting Started with Automic SaaS for Object Designers

• Getting Started with Automic SaaS for Operators

Architecture

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Object-Oriented Design

With its object-oriented design, Automic SaaS allows a single task definition to run with different parameters on hundreds of target systems as many times as needed.

You define an object only once and reuse it across your system. Suppose you have a backup process that must run on all database servers, which can be located on-premise, in a private cloud or a mix of both. A full backup runs once a week and an incremental backup runs every second day. Instead of having to create hundreds of individual tasks, Automic SaaS lets you create and run a single object and reuse it (and, if necessary, customize each usage) in as many processes as needed.

For more information about Automic Automation's objects, see:

• Object Types

Defining Objects

Object Types

Automic SaaS provides templates to create multiple types of objects. We list here but a few:

• Jobs

  Automic SaaS jobs,what are Automic SaaS jobs

  Jobs are basic building blocks of automation. An Automic SaaS Job is a unit of work that is Agent-specific. There are Windows Jobs, UNIX Jobs, SAP Jobs, and so forth. A Job issues an instruction, which is a script, a command, or something else. The execution of a Job triggers some sort of work being performed on a system. For more information about Automic SaaS Jobs, see Jobs (JOBS).

• File Transfers

  Automic SaaS file transfers,what are Automic SaaSfile transfers

  File Transfers are similar to Jobs but they allow automated Agent-to-Agent processes without an FTP server. They ensure that the right data is sent automatically and securely to the right location at the right time. File Transfers are accurate, consistent and can be fully encrypted along every step of the process. Comprehensive reports guarantee auditing and transparency. For more information about Automic SaaS's file transfer capabilities, see:

  • File Transfers (JOBF)

  • File Transfer: Watch the Video

• Workflows

  Automic SaaS workflows,what are Automic SaaS workflows

  Workflows are key players in process automation. They orchestrate the automatic processing of other objects. You assemble processes (objects) in a Workflow and connect them, determining the sequence with which they will be processed. By defining specific configuration settings per object in a Workflow, you specify the conditions under which the objects are executed. For more information about Workflows, see:

  • Workflows (JOBP)

  • Watch the Video: Creating a Workflow

• Schedules

  Automic SaaS schedules,what are Automic SaaS schedules

  Schedules are core automation objects too. Through Schedules, you design event and time-driven task management. You collect tasks in a Schedule object and define the scheduling parameters that will govern regular intervals at which they should be executed. For more information about Schedules, see:

  • Schedules (JSCH)

  • Watch the Video: Schedule Objects

  • Example: Scheduling Tasks with Time and Calendar Conditions

• Calendars

  Automic SaaS calendars,what are Automic SaaS calendars

  So far, we have described some of the most important executable objects in Automic SaaS. However, there are other objects that are not executable but that play an important role in process automation.

  Calendars are static objects that provide cycle calculation services. You create a Calendar in which you define cycles (every day, every Monday, first of the month, last day of the year, and so on). You then apply the Calendar to your executable object, which is then automated in accordance with those cycles. For more information, see:

  • Calendars (CALE)

  • Calendar Events

  • Watch the Video: Calendars

  • Examples of Useful Calendar Events

Automation Engine Scripting

Automic SaaS has its own proprietary scripting language to help you code workload processes. For more information about the Automation Engine scripting language, see:

• Scripting and the Automation Engine Scripting Language

• Automation Engine Script Reference

Automatic Processing (Executing)

Once automated processes are designed and scheduled, you execute them. Object execution can be triggered manually or automatically. For more information, see:

• Executing Objects

• Execution Stages

• Execution Options

Monitoring and Auditing

Automic SaaS provides full reporting and auditing capabilities. When executing objects, the Automic SaaS backend writes comprehensive output files and reports that track all processes. The reports are organized to show what is happening across the enterprise. The can be easily accessed from the UI.

For more information about Automic SaaS's auditing capabilities, see:

• Tasks

• Process Monitoring Perspective

• Monitoring Tasks

• Understanding the Reports

• Execution Data

Analytics

While Automic SaaS's reporting and auditing features provide a detailed representation of the status quo of your business processes, Analytics transforms that data into business intelligence. Using Automic SaaS's powerful automation objects in dynamic dashboards, Analytics explores and interprets your business data. With this analysis, you can base your decision making on data-driven insight. For more information, see Analytics and Reporting.

Service Orchestration Capabilities

With its powerful, reliable, and scalable Workflow capabilities and its extensive integration options, Automic SaaS can support even the most complex service orchestration scenarios. Service orchestration is the automated coordination of processes that span multiple domains or applications and may also include manual steps, such as human approval or intervention, to provide a service. At the heart of service orchestration is the Workflow. The overall process typically involves multiple Workflows for individual tasks. Nevertheless, one main Workflow orchestrates the tasks across the entire infrastructure. For more information, see About Service Orchestration.

Integrations

Automic SaaS provides an extensive range of integrations that let you orchestrate processes over your entire IT landscape from one central point. For more information, see :

• Cloud Integrations

• AE and Targeted Systems

• REST API

• Rapid Automation

See also:

Watch the Video: Automic SaaS