Case Study: ASM International turns a 26-hour process into 25 minutes with ActiveBatch from Advanced Systems Concepts

ASM International cuts a 26-hour process to 25 minutes with Advanced Systems Concepts

ASM International, a society for materials science and engineering professionals, faced challenges with inefficient and unreliable process automation. They relied on a combination of Windows Task Scheduler and SQL Scheduler across 20 servers, which provided no visibility, logging, or alerting. This made modifying processes difficult and impacted their ability to serve their 36,000 members effectively. They turned to vendor Advanced Systems Concepts and implemented their ActiveBatch Workload Automation product to address these issues.

Advanced Systems Concepts' solution, ActiveBatch, replaced 120 hard-coded jobs with a single parameterized job and automated critical workflows for data processing, report generation, and member credential verification. The results were significant, including turning a manual 26-hour reporting process into a fully automated 25-minute one, an improvement of 390%. This provided greater efficiency, visibility, and allowed the IT team to focus on new initiatives.

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