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As IT increasingly relies on virtual and cloud-based environments, managing the provisioning and de-provisioning of these resources for workload processing can be a major challenge.

 Advanced Systems Concepts, a vendor of workload automation and enterprise job scheduling software, is easing this. The company announced that its latest version of ActiveBatch software easily integrates with Microsoft's (News - Alert) most advanced cloud computing platform, Windows Azure.

ActiveBatch is Advanced Systems’ Workload Automation and Job Scheduling software that allows IT organizations to automate existing processes, develop and deploy new workflows faster and more reliably. New capability in version 9 enables IT departments to dynamically allocate Azure resources to match workload processing requirements in order to reduce IT operational costs.

Windows Azure is Microsoft's most advanced platform for building, deploying and managing applications and services in the cloud.

"The ActiveBatch Extension for Azure ensures that IT organizations have a unified solution for scheduling and automating workloads that cross every physical, virtual and/or cloud environment including Azure," vice president of Marketing and Sales for Advanced Systems Concepts, said in a statement.

The new ActiveBatch Extension for Azure exclusively allows users to provision and manage Azure instances within workflows that direct other applications, platforms and process types, all from within ActiveBatch's centralized interface. To maximize efficiency, users can take advantage of ActiveBatch's Smart Queue capabilities to provision Azure instances automatically based on workload demands.

The ActiveBatch Extension for Azure offers over 60 production-ready job steps to automate various Azure tasks. To integrate Azure workflows with other operations throughout the enterprise, ActiveBatch's Integrated Jobs Library provides over 400 job steps.

By automating the management of Azure instances within ActiveBatch, users now have an even more effective way to instantly allocate cloud resources to workload processing, when and where they're needed, said the company.

Last year, the company announced availability of the ActiveBatch Extension for Microsoft Dynamics AX.