Case Study: Finnish Tax Administration achieves streamlined workflow creation and centralized, multi-platform IT automation with Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc.'s ActiveBatch

From Homegrown Scheduling to an Architectural Approach How Finland’s Tax Administration TransformedWorkflow Creation with ActiveBatch

The Finnish Tax Administration, responsible for taxing over 5.4 million people, was running thousands of weekly batch jobs across OpenVMS and Windows using a homegrown scheduling system and scripts. With roughly 1,500 OpenVMS runs and about 2,000 production runs per week and some 200 different Windows batch tasks, the IT organization needed better change management, fine‑grained security, centralized administration, cross‑system job chaining and future support for UNIX/Linux—so they selected ActiveBatch IT Automation and Job Scheduling from Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc.

Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. implemented ActiveBatch (with partner Nortal and on‑site consulting/training), giving the FTA a central point of control, a visual Change Management System across six environments, Active Directory integration, reference objects for rapid workflow reuse, and robust alerting and monitoring. The result was faster workflow creation, synchronized deployments, improved security and environment separation, significantly reduced manual work and custom scripting, and lower operating costs while handling hundreds of production tasks and thousands of batch runs more efficiently.

Finnish Tax Administration

Suvi Vihro

Data Administration Specialist