1. Using Appworx to Orchestrate Banner, ODS and Cognos scheduling
Enterprise Schedule
Using Appworx to Orchestrate Banner, ODS and Cognos scheduling
Shaun H. Cooper
NMSU
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2. Outline ERP support systems at NMSU Process Scheduling tasks Appworx
Banner Processing
ODS Processing
Cognos Process
Conclusions
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3. ERP Support Systems at NMSU
SUNGARDHE Banner
HR (Jan 2005)
Finance (July 2005)
Admissions (Sept 2006)
Student/AR (Nov 2006)
Financial Aid (March 2007)
SUNGARDHE
Workflow
Extender
ODS
Eprint
Cognos
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4. Process Scheduling Tasks
Finance
Run month end close
Set of “massaged” reports
Daily
Load daily feeds from external systems HR
Daily loads of “positive pay”
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5. Process Schedule Tasks (cont)
Financial Aid
Daily financial aid disbursement and feeds
Student
Daily summary data for Business Intelligence
Weekly runs of “advising docs” for entire campus
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6. Appworx
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7. Appworx Enterprise Scheduling Application
UNIX
Windows
Others
Agent based application where master agent sends requests to slave agents to perform work on “local” host.
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8. Appworx Agent Process X Please Run Master Agent Process X
Updates on Process X
Standard Output
Standard Error
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9. Appworx Agents
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10. Appworx Backlog What is running
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11. Appworx State Information Runtime, dependencies and output
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12. Appworx Output files Standard Out (SQL too)
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13. Appworx – Example output file
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14. Appworx Modules Baseline work elements
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15. Appworx Module Details
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16. Appworx Chains Putting Modules Together
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17. Finance Month End Close Banner Reports
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18. Appworx +Banner + UNIX = Success!
Appworx orchestrates the steps to run a sequence of elements
Banner writes baseline reports
UNIX scripts allow for postprocessing of elements
UNIX places output file on eprint!
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19. FIN_FGRBDSC_PARSE_EPRINT
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20. UNIX scripts used to postprocess
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21. Postprocessing with PERL
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22. Finished output of FGRBDSC in Eprint
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23. Appworx Engages Dependencies
ODS requires refresh and then freeze events
ODS scheduler has no dependencies
What happens when a refresh runs beyond the time a freeze occurs?
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24. ODS Web Tailor Job Scheduler
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25. Finance Month End with ODS
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26. Appworx Benefits One Corporate Scheduling System
Maintains dependencies for dependent systems.
Has a sophisticated calendar system
Program university calendar and holidays
Has sophisticated prompts
Using SQL determine first day of semester
No more hand edit of many processes needing current semester.
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27. Appworx Benefits Chain prompts pass down
One prompt change is all that is needed
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28. Appworx and Cognos
Can run cognos reports via Cognos SDK and save to local windows server
Appworx is used to transport PDF file to UNIX
UNIX is used to convert to Text
Appworx transports text to eprint
Eprint indexes form for quicker use for end customer
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29. New Appworx Initiatives
Cognos Cube refresh run after ODS refresh.
HR Payroll processing
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30. Conclusions
Appworx is used to orchestrate a number of processes spread across disparate systems (and operating systems)
Appworx provides a consolidated view of all scheduled jobs
Appworx WORKS!
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