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Enterprise Edition
Standard and Lite Edition Features
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 Standard and Lite Edition Features
 
Lite Edition All of the features listed below are available in the Lite and Standard Editions of SmartBatch.  The Lite Edition has the same features as the Standard Edition however the Lite Edition is limited to 20 Operations.
   
Flexible Scheduling Operations, Steps, and Jobs can be scheduled to execute:  immediately, on specific dates calendar, every "n" minutes, every day, every week, or every month.  Exception dates and "extra" dates that a process should or should not run are also supported.
   
Error Detection and Recovery Errors can be detected by exit codes, run threshold periods, and/or key word found in user specified application log files.  The matching used to indicate success or failure can be any regular expression.  Regular expression support is provided by SmartBatch  through the .NET framework.
   
Reliable Notification On-call operators can be notified by Email, Pager, etc. of start, success, and failure events.  Notification messages are formatted as either regular text or html.
   
Operators Any number of operators along with their available hours can be configured for proper notification.
   
Hierarchical Organization To support related processing and complex environments, Operations can be logically grouped into Steps and Steps into Jobs.
   
Sequencing Operations, Steps, and Jobs can be executed in a specified order.
   
Dependencies Dependencies can be configured to ensure that processing only occurs when necessary conditions are met (e.g.  file exists) or left unsatisfied (e.g.  program failed to complete).
   
Object to Object Dependencies An Operation can be dependent on another Operation simply by putting both Operations into a Step.  The Operations will be executed in the order in which they are configured in the Step.  This same sequencing is supported for Steps in a Job.  Further, any object (Operation, Step or Job) can be dependent on any other object (Operation, Step or Job).
   
Events Events such as a file being created or change to a file attributed can trigger the start of an Operation, Step or Job.
   
History Chart History information can be charted to get a graphical view of processing.
   
Schedule Resource View Determining what days and time your scheduled activity occurs is much easier with a the Schedule Resource View.  This shows a graphical layout of your objects, their schedules and run times.
   
Parameters Parameters are supported so that users can properly manage information that may change such as filenames and paths.
   
.NET programmatic interface Technical users can take advantage of the .NET programmatic interface (API) with SmartBatch.  For example, they can use the API to schedule an object in SmartBatch from their application.
   
Windows Service Capability The Executive Server is installed under Windows as a Windows Service allowing scheduling and notification to occur without the need for a user to be logged onto the system.  Users may modify the configuration so that they run in manual mode.
   
Windows User Interface and Web User Interface SmartBatch supports a clean, straightforward GUI using the latest UI Windows forms design.  A Web browser user interface is also available for monitoring and controlling the environment.
   
Application Independent SmartBatch is not specific to any application.
   
Database Independent SmartBatch is not dependent on a specific database management system.  SmartBatch uses a Microsoft Access, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 or MySQL for storing its configuration information.  Your applications can use any database managment system without any conflicts with SmartBatch.  The Standard Edition of SmartBatch can use MS Access or the Express Editions of the database products.  The Enterprise Edition of SmartBatch is required to use other database editions (e.g., SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008 or Oracle 10g).
   
Security Windows integrated security has been implemented to provide a secure solution using concepts you are already familiar with.  SmartBatch provides for role based security based on a set of Windows roles/groups that are created when the product is installed.
   
Status Status is provided to determine what activity is occurring at any point in time.
   
History Activity can be written to the SmartBatch history, the Windows Event Log, or both.
   
Runbook Users can enter information and instructions about processing for other operators to use and maintain the environment.