SmartBatch 2009 provides an affordable, best-of-breed, integrated solution for job scheduling and management. With ease, jobs can be logically organized and executed using the simplest or most complex user defined schedules. Jobs can also be configured such that errors are recovered/logged and "on-call" operators are notified of events via email, paging, and cell phone. SmartBatch can assist you in managing programs, .bat files, and various scripts scattered across your systems by acting as a repository. SmartBatch with its clean design and impressive graphical user interface, is simple for all users. And, with advanced features like a .NET programmatic interface for even the most technical programmer, it proves to be both sophisticated and flexible. SmartBatch can support the simplest processing, or the most complicated. Standard features include: dependencies, parameters, scheduling/calendaring, reports, notification, Windows integrated security and much more.

Three editions of SmartBatch 2009 are offered: the Lite Edition, Standard Edition and the Enterprise Edition. The Lite Edition offers entry level pricing while providing a complete and robust solution.  The Standard Edition meets the need of most organizations that need a single computer solution.  The Enterprise Edition includes all the functionality of the Standard Edition, but is designed specifically as an enterprise solution providing the ability to distribute processing to any number of comptuers.. Use the links to the left to get more detailed information on each of the SmartBatch product editions.

Scalable Distributed Processing

The Enterprise Edition provides a scalable, distributed, load-balanced, fault-tolerant solution with the use of Remote Agents. With the Enterprise Edition, jobs can be executed to run on any Windows system in the network, but centrally controlled from one Executive Server. The Executive Server coordinates the activity of Remote Agents depending on the configuration. The Enterprise Edition allows for the use of Application and Computer Groups. Application Groups provide the ability to separate application processing. Computer Groups provide the ability to distribute processing amongst any number of computers running a SmartBatch Remote Agent.

Enterprise Database Support

The SmartBatch 2009 now support the most popular databases to hThe SmartBatch 2009 now support the most popular databases to host the SmartBatch configuration.  This includes: SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL and MS Access.  

The SmartBatch 2009 now provides a web forms based end user interface.  This allows the nontechnical users the ability to submit jobs when needed.  The browser based user interface shows them only the jobs they are authorized to run.  Of course they can see the status and history for their jobs.  SmartBatch takes care of the rest.