BlueBay Case Study

An ActiveBatch Workload Automation Success Story

BlueBay, one of Europe’s leading asset managers, manages over $60 billion for individuals and institutions. Prior to using ActiveBatch, BlueBay relied on multiple platform-specific job schedulers to automate key business processes, hampering long-term growth:

With no central hub to manage workflows, monitoring and alerting were fragmented, allowing failed jobs to go unnoticed until business was impacted;
BlueBay’s in-house scheduler lacked event triggers and had limited date/time scheduling, making it difficult to run the right jobs at the right time;
The in-house scheduler was also unable to handle complex dependencies between job steps, preventing the development of end-to-end processes;
As a result of these issues, users and groups had to coordinate with “handshakes and flags.”

By The Numbers

2.5m

BlueBay runs over 2.5 million jobs per year with ActiveBatch.

30%

BlueBay improved performance of its SQL environment by 30% by migrating from SQL Server Agent to ActiveBatch.

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BlueBay Succeeds with ActiveBatch

BlueBay evaluated several automation solutions including Tidal Software, AutoSys, and Control-M, ultimately choosing ActiveBatch for the ability to “build the implementation around our environment.”

ActiveBatch’s integrations with Microsoft allowed BlueBay to continue using Microsoft languages, SSIS packages, and pre-existing batch scripts, allowing for a seamless migration;
BlueBay automated its server patching processes, saving IT staff hours of manual, error-prone work;
ActiveBatch collects data from multiple servers and third-party vendors, processes the data, and sends it to BlueBay’s financial and business analysts each morning, improving BlueBay's services while reducing IT's workload.

In Their Own Words

“We could use our native Microsoft languages, SSIS packages, batch scripts, and more within ActiveBatch with minimal rewrite, and for other jobs we could leverage the production-ready Job Steps that are part of the Integrated Jobs Library, which required no coding at all."

“We didn’t want to get a call at 3:00AM to tackle a command line-based scheduler due to a job failure. With ActiveBatch, we knew that wouldn’t be an issue.”

“We’ve seen a dramatic reduction in system delays and callouts, and when there is an issue, ActiveBatch’s monitoring and alerting is much more robust than what the custom scheduler provided.”

“With ActiveBatch, it’s all about improving the reliability and availability of core business systems and the data they produce.”

How BlueBay Succeeded with ActiveBatch

The IT team no longer has to wake up at 3:00AM to resolve issues on their command-line scheduler because ActiveBatch has dramatically curtailed job delays and failures.

ActiveBatch enables users to restart jobs from any point within a workflow, instead of having to restart the entire workflow, reducing delays and delivering data on time.

After automating BlueBay’s business processes with ActiveBatch, the IT team is consolidating and coordinating its operations and infrastructure processes.

BlueBay has improved its system performance by 30% after moving SQL Server Agent job steps into ActiveBatch.

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