When it comes to enterprise applications, one of the biggest challenges in all of the IT business is trying to get SAP software to reflect the processes of the business, as opposed to trying to get the business to bend to the way the SAP software works.

In a Prepare Your Business for the Future and Realize Immediate IT Savings webinar presented by SAP, a new event-driven capability for scheduling jobs across multiple SAP applications is highlighted as being a significant step towards being able to automate custom business processes within an SAP environment.

Chris Lentz, director of solutions marketing for Redwood Software, which co-developed the SAP Central Process Scheduling software that SAP has now made its preferred job scheduler, talks about how the software can be used to dynamically manage multiple parent-child relationships between processes running within SAP applications and on other platforms.

David Dea, director applications for Peabody Energy, adds some customer perspective by describing how Peabody is replacing IBM Tivoli and native Windows NT job schedulers with the new SAP offering. However, Dea notes that the SAP offering is a little more complicated to work with and required some help of SQL developers to actually implement.

Rating: Shows how SAP is finally getting serious about improving the manageability of SAP applications – TWM1.