Case Study: Indiana University Foundation achieves automated, reliable overnight data transfers and improved uptime with Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc.'s ActiveBatch

Indiana University FoundationSmooths Data Transfers with IT Automation

Indiana University Foundation, a not-for-profit that manages more than $1.5 billion in university funds and runs 30–40 nightly data-exchange jobs across Windows, Unix/Linux and custom applications, faced unreliable manual scheduling and no centralized monitoring. Built-in OS schedulers required custom code and left overnight failures undetected until users complained, so the foundation adopted ActiveBatch Job Scheduler from Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. to orchestrate cross-platform workflows.

Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc.'s ActiveBatch gave IUF a GUI-driven, conditional scheduler with immediate email alerts and detailed reporting, eliminating much of the manual monitoring. The foundation now runs dependent jobs back-to-back, diagnoses failures from centralized logs, fixes many problems overnight before users notice, and has improved uptime and operational efficiency in managing its large nightly workloads.

Indiana University Foundation

Jay Sissom

Manager of Systems Administration and Customer Support