Case Study: Clearstream achieves 40% scheduling cost savings and improved performance with Automic Workload Automation

Delivering cash & securities between 2,500 trading parties needs sophisticated, dynamic automation

Clearstream, a leading European post‑trade services provider that settles hundreds of thousands of securities and over 250,000 transactions daily for roughly 2,500 customers worldwide, faced an operational risk from an aging first‑generation job scheduler. The legacy tool demanded heavy administration (about 1.5 FTEs), slow fixes and high TCO, yet Clearstream needed a modern, cross‑platform automation platform that could migrate existing job definitions with zero business impact, meet SLAs, and handle large volumes of jobs quickly.

After an RFP and proof of concept, Clearstream implemented Automic Workload Automation with support from Fujitsu in a tight three‑month “Commando” rollout. The new solution delivered dynamic, multi‑platform scheduling and easier administration, enabling Clearstream to run ~25,000 jobs daily more reliably, achieve roughly 40% savings on scheduling costs, meet operational SLAs, and position the company to expand automation (including potential SAP integration).

Clearstream

Willy Schockert

Director of UNIX and ICSD Infrastructure