The AIX Community Survey, now in its fifth consecutive year, goes in-depth with IT teams to gain a unique perspective into how this platform is being used today and how teams envision using it in the future. Over the years, the respondents of the survey have expanded to include a variety of industries, geographies, and titles within IT. More than 100 IT professionals in North America, EMEA, and APAC participated in this year’s survey, and this input enables all of us to understand the role of AIX with new clarity.

With organizations collecting more customer, transactional, and relational data than ever before, data volumes are beginning to expand past their system’s processing capacity. But big data doesn’t have to be alarming. Go beyond the hype and conquer your IBM i data.

To effectively and rapidly enable and manage complex business processes, organizations must adopt a unified solution that directly integrates process automation with job scheduling.

Enterprise scheduling tools have many advantages over the older technology of client-server scheduling tools.

Skybot Scheduler provides many advantages, including event-driven scheudling and cross-platform capabilities, over UNIX cron job scheduling.

Because there is still a need for recurring application processes to perform activities, there is an increased need for critical back-end computing via workload automation software.