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Job Scheduling Companies Grow Revenue With Cybermation

Cybermation, a developer of enterprise job scheduling and software change management solutions, has been identified in a new report from leading IT market research and advisory firm IDC as posting the highest revenue growth rate among the top 10 job scheduling companies in 2003. IDC attributes this to Cybermation's innovative event-driven solutions.

IDC published the results of its analysis of last year's job scheduling market in IDC Opinion Worldwide Systems Operations Software 2003. The report states that the job scheduling software market grew by a substantial 7.8 percent in 2003, increasing from $968 million in 2002 to $1,044 million in 2003. This was the second consecutive year of positive growth in this market, after a decline in 2001.

In a competitive landscape, Cybermation demonstrated the highest growth rate, 36.4 percent, through sales of its job scheduling solutions: ESP Workload Manager for z/OS environments and ESP Espresso for distributed environments. "Cybermation has delivered a cross-platform solution that can be either mainframe-centric, distributed platform-centric, or peer-to-peer," said Tim Grieser, IDC analyst. "The company's comprehensive offering for event-driven automation includes file-activated triggers, as well as events based on system thresholds, such as CPU or memory, Java and Web services events, and application-based events."

In the IDC report, Cybermation is recognized as a leading provider of event-driven job scheduling, which has more real-time emphasis than traditional job scheduling. Cybermation's ESP job scheduling solutions automate jobs based not only on calendar requirements, but also on application and infrastructure events. This means that when a specified event occurs, such as an incoming web transaction or a database update, users can respond instantly in real time.

"We believe Cybermation is in the forefront of event-driven automation that will support the future ideal of the real-time enterprise," said Ray Nissan, CEO of Cybermation. "Our ESP products support other emerging technologies like web services, and open standards such as Linux. Cybermation helps its customers embrace the future by assisting them in aligning their IT infrastructure with business objectives."