Workload automation (WA) has developed from an isolated discipline, focused on the static scheduling of batch jobs, to a central and proactive backbone for today's service-oriented approach to enterprise IT. Workloads are now part of the enterprise service catalog, working together with capacity management and process automation solutions to make existing applications run more efficiently and accelerate the delivery of new enterprise software. 

The rise of the cloud opens up a new realm of possibilities to WA. Private, public, and hybrid cloud solutions are new options for processing enterprise workloads in a more efficient, flexible, and reliable manner. Dynamically shifting workloads to the place where they can be executed best at any given point in time constitutes a significant step toward IT resource optimization.

WA can no longer be seen as a commodity, but constitutes a strategic asset. The CA Technologies Automation Suite has all the components required to harness WA as a true differentiator for the enterprise.