Case Study: SBA Communications achieves secure, centralized workload automation and faster vendor payments with Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc.'s ActiveBatch

SBA CommunicationsIs Taking Cellular Towers to New Heights by Using Workload Automation to Support Its Rapidly Expanding Cellular Infrastructure

SBA Communications, a leading independent owner and operator of wireless communications towers, faced growing complexity supporting nearly 10,000 sites with a patchwork of home‑grown batch processes, custom scripts, multiple encryption solutions and disparate scheduling tools. To centralize and secure time‑sensitive accounting and vendor payments and gain better reporting and alerting, SBA selected Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc.’s ActiveBatch Enterprise Job Scheduling and Workload Automation.

Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. implemented ActiveBatch to automate hundreds of accounting processes, consolidate encryption and secure file transfers (SFTP/OpenPGP), and provide reusable job steps, role‑based access and self‑service for accounting users. The deployment cut error‑troubleshooting time from about an hour to 5–10 minutes, enabled daily secure vendor payments, improved nightly data replication and backups, and delivered an estimated 50% productivity improvement for IT staff while simplifying operations and raising service levels.

SBA Communications

Brian Yaciuk

Network Engineer