Task Scheduler - ORSYP

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A task is an automated process that runs in the background, performing a set of actions to process data or retrieve a certain result. The task executes a sequence of programs and technical instructions that are stored in a command file. Progress and error messages are output to a log file allowing users to determine, at any time, if the task completed successfully or to identify the cause of the problem. Because tasks run in the background they are less visible to the end user.

In a business-computing context, a task scheduler performs the automatic execution of background tasks at pre-determined points in time (e.g. every day at 8pm, midday on Wednesday).
Three types of task schedulers can be distinguished: native, basic and advanced task scheduling.
Most operating systems and some business solutions software come equipped with a native task scheduler that provides a limited service locally to each installation (e.g. Windows Scheduled Tasks, UNIX crontab, SAP CCMS) .

However, business processes may span multiple platforms, applications, countries and companies. Their complexity may require much more functional power as provided by a basic task scheduler including national and regional variations in the working calendar, sequence variations according to the day of the month, the triggering of jobs by the successful completion of preceding jobs, the elimination of gaps, and reduced batch windows.Major benefits of basic task scheduling are enhanced productivity, operations reliability and cost-reduction.

Advanced task schedulers can handle these advanced requirements: event-driven scheduling for a real-time synchronization with interactive processing, just-in-time scheduling to run operations as soon as possible, cross-platform and cross-application services for the entire IT landscape, real-time overall monitoring to track background operations for all applications on all servers.

The standard benefits of task scheduling are drastically amplified when the task scheduler can handle the end-to-end automation and monitoring requirements for all background operations.