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Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. (ASCI), maker of ActiveBatch IT Automation Without Boundaries, has enhanced automation capabilities for Microsoft (News - Alert) environments with the release of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for ActiveBatch Version 9.

Officials with ASCI said the latest version of ActiveBatch, which features a new extension for Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 and major improvements to the existing Microsoft Dynamics AX extension, further consolidates "point" scheduling tools, giving IT organizations a single automation solution for both business and IT operational processes.

"More than ever before, ActiveBatch is now the ideal single-point automation solution for IT organizations operating in diverse, Microsoft-led environments," said Jim Manias, vice president of marketing and sales for Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc., in a statement. "Our goal with ActiveBatch is to conquer automation boundaries wherever they occur.”

He said the powerful extensions better equip Microsoft enterprise customers not only within their specific application spheres, but also throughout the enterprise regardless of the physical and/or virtual mix of applications, databases, operating systems, infrastructure or geography.

"Using the traditional utilities to schedule the update of our Microsoft Dynamics AX environments was tedious and complex with no way to view the return value or log files,” said Steve Marchetti, integration architect at global engineering and project management company AMEC.

“The ActiveBatch Extension for Microsoft Dynamics AX allows us to consolidate multiple command line and batch scripts and replace them with a single ActiveBatch Job Step--one that provides an interface to simply drag and drop it into the workflow. It's saving us time, improving productivity, and has made the execution of these processes more reliable," said Marchetti.

Earlier in April last year, Advanced Systems Concepts announced version 9.0 of its ActiveBatch Workload Automation and Job Scheduling Software, which “redefines workload automation in the cloud computing era.”

The version gives ActiveBatch users integrated capabilities to join both reactive and predictive forms of resource management to optimize Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for virtually every business service throughout the modern enterprise.