Overview of the Business Implementation

The business implementation of AAI is run as a project that is led by the AAI business area coordinator. This topic gives you, the business area coordinator, the framework of the implementation project, including important guidance about why and how to approach the project. The topics that follow go into the details for the successive stages of the implementation.

Goals and Scope

What you want accomplish by implementing AAI is based on both general business goals and specific operational objectives. Some of these come from your higher management, others from your scheduler teams, and some come from your own understanding of your organization and its workload automation processes. It's important to understand what you want to get out of the implementing AAI in your workload automation landscape.

During the proof of concept (POC) activities, your management determined that AAI can provide solutions to specific problems in your workload automation operations as well as position the organization for further growth. For example, they saw that AAI offered advantages over your current systems in the following ways:

• Providing operations teams greater visibility into the daily workload executions with a single view for cross-scheduler monitoring
• Ensuring better SLA management with quicker problem resolution
• Gaining greater insight into your workload automation landscape through more comprehensive and targeted reporting of execution performance.
• Position the company to move to more of a self-service environment

Those objectives and goals are the guiding requirements behind the AAI implementation. As the business area coordinator and project manager of the business implementation, these are your key objectives.

The Project Game Plan

The business implementation is best run in several stages. Some stages have iterations that allow you to confirm the results and make modifications before continuing. In the end, you have a fully defined and tested implementation that you can release to your teams and go live with.

The business implementation is made up of the following main stages:

• Stage 1: Planning
• Stage 2: Testing
• Stage 3: Rolling out
• Stage 4: Adapting and refining

A collaborative venture

Although you, as the business area coordinator, are responsible for the implementation, you will need to include, or at least consider, key people in your organization who have the detailed knowledge about their own areas of responsibility. Their insights are critical because these people will be ones who will depend on AAI for their daily work. Be aware that people at different levels of an organization tend to pay attention to different things.

Best Practice for Multiple Rollouts or Implementations

If, in your organization, you have more than one business area coordinator or you plan to implement AAI in a series of rollouts to various business groups, then complete one implementation entirely before starting the next implementations.

In this case, the goal of your first implementation is to simultaneously create two things:

• A well structured, live implementation of AAI in use by the initial group
• A template, based on the initial implementation, that can be used for the other business area coordinators or business groups

Next step:

See Prerequisites for the Business Implementation