Workload Automation (WLA) is a software solution or technology that enables organizations to automate, schedule, and manage a wide range of computing tasks, jobs, and processes across their IT infrastructure. These tasks can include batch processing, data transfers, application and system maintenance, and various other routine and critical business processes. The primary goal of workload automation is to improve operational efficiency, reduce human error, and ensure that tasks are executed reliably and on time.

• Job Scheduling and Automation: CA Broadcom's Workload Automation solutions allow organizations to schedule and automate a wide range of tasks and jobs across their IT infrastructure.
• Cross-Platform Support: These solutions typically supported multiple platforms, including mainframes, distributed systems, and cloud environments, allowing organizations to manage.
• Centralized Management: CA Broadcom's Workload Automation solutions often provided a centralized management console or interface for defining, scheduling, and monitoring jobs and workflows. This centralized control helped ensure resource utilization.
• Dependency Management: Users could define dependencies between different jobs and tasks, ensuring that jobs ran in the correct sequence to avoid conflicts and errors.
• Alerting and Notifications: These solutions usually included alerting and notification features to inform administrators of job failures or other issues, facilitating prompt responses to problems.
• Security and Compliance: Ensuring the security of job execution and compliance with policies and regulations was a key aspect. Audit trails and logs were often maintained to track job execution for compliance purposes.
• Integration: CA Broadcom's Workload Automation solutions could integrate with various IT management tools, enabling seamless interactions with other systems like monitoring solutions, incident management platforms, and more.
• Reporting and Analytics: Some versions of these solutions offered reporting and analytics capabilities, allowing organizations to gain insights into job performance, resource utilization, and efficiency.

Workload Automation solutions from Broadcom enhance your visualization and control of these complex workloads across platforms, ERP systems, and the cloud. Manage all workloads that relate to your critical business processes from one location. Advanced analytics and service level management allow you to keep your finger on the pulse and deliver better services to the business. Dynamically respond to real-time business events, mapping workload processes to service level agreements, ensuring continual monitoring and automating recovery.