1. Company Profile
2018

2. Homepage www.horizont-it.com

3. History 1993 - Founded in Munich 1993 until today: IBM Partner
A lot of projects in workload automation area
First customers in inland and abroad
First user conference
...
2013
with XINFO, ProcMan, SmartJCL and numerous IWS/TWS products, HORIZONT offers a wide product range for the production area of data centers
ca. 300 customers worldwide, around 100 in Germany/Austria/Switzerland
ca. 600 licenses worldwide
HORIZONT arranges probably the only regular specialized traid fair for workload automation worldwide. The HOT runs three days, has regularly more than 150 attendees, the leading software companies as exhibitor, like i.e. BMC, CA, IBM, Redwood, Software AG, Automic (UC4), and so on.

4. HORIZONT Customers in following countries
USA, Canada, Mexico
Latin America
Italy
Israel, Arabia
Japan
Scandinavia
France UK
Germany, Swiss, Austria
Australia
Spain, Portugal
China

5. Business Areas Everything about Workload Automation
Focus on our own „Software for Datacenters“
Consulting and Projects
Evaluation (compare scheduling systems of various vendors)
Migrations of scheduling systems
Trainings
Optimizing
Migrations and changeovers of JCL etc.

6. Our solutions for IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS)
Operations
Services
Consulting
Service
Management
Analysis
Quality
Management
IBM Workload Scheduler
Operations
Information
Management
Automation
Distributed
Job
Management
Job Log
Management

7. Workload Automation Consulting
Our solutions for IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS)
7/24 Operations Services
Migration Services
Workload Automation Consulting
Service Management
Analysis
IWS/
Graph
ProcMan
Operations
IWS/
Webadmin
z & ds
Quality Management
IBM Workload Scheduler
SmartJCL
Info. Management
Data Center
Automation
IWS/
BatchAD
BatchCP
XINFO
Distributed
Job Management
Beta 92
EJM
Beta 92 &
Beta UX LM
Log Management

8. From ISPF to Windows, from Web to Eclipse.
Products and GUIs
From ISPF to Windows, from Web to Eclipse.

9. Users
Our products help all users, who need information or are involved in Workload Automation (Batch, Scheduling)
Planning (Operations scheduling)
Control (Operating)
Application development
Project groups
Other departments
Managers
...

10. Products and Usage Areas
Handover Process Manager
ProcMan
IT information system
XINFO
JCL
SmartJCL
IWS / TWS
IWS/Audit
IWS/Graph
IWS/BatchAD
IWS/BatchCP
IWS/WebAdmin

11. Products - ProcMan
ProcMan (Process-Manager) is a complete handover system, especially developed for the needs of production operations.
(currently) supported Handover objects
JCL (Jobs and Procedures)
IWS objects (Applications, jobs regarding operations)
Customer specific forms for any Object Type
Modern design
User friendly web dialog
Client and user role concept
Flexible configurable and exactly adjustable for customer needs
Controlled, on time and audit-proof handovers from development into production

12. Products - SmartJCL
SmartJCL is a JCL management tool with extensive functionality.
JCL-Check, JCL-Reformat, JCL mass update
Scheduler interface (for IWS z/OS, Control-M)
correct variable substitution
complete production simulation (pre-production check)
REXX-Interface
for flexible verification of customer standards
for complicated tasks like JCL generation or conversion
and much more
Rule dialog i.e. for quality checks
Remote Check

13. Products - XINFO
XINFO is an IT information system („Google for data center“)
Wide and open data model
on z/OS XINFO analysis JCL, Scheduler, SMF, DB2, IMS, CICS, COBOL, PL/I etc.
on Windows and Unix distributed Scheduler, Java, text files, etc.
All data are stored either in DB2, Oracle or MS-SQL
Various access methods (user interfaces) for the data
ISPF dialog, Windows client, Eclipse plugin
and much more
Graphics, automatic document creation, trend analyses

14. Products - IWS/WebAdmin
IWS/WebAdmin is a web-based application for IWS z/OS and distributed. Main functions:
Query and change the definitions
Applications, Streams, Jobs
Query and change the plans
Forecast and Simulation
Add ad hoc jobs
Monitoring and alerts
Critical path analysis
Historical reports
Graphics and reports
Net plans, bar charts
Reporting and statistics

15. Many thanks. What are your wishes?

16. HORIZONT – “at a glance”
HOT
Roadshows
Scheduling IWS: IWS/Graph, IWS/Audit, IWS/WebAdmin IWS/BatchAD/CP
JCL checker: SmartJCL
Change management web GUI: ProcMan
Consulting:
Training, Projects Automation
Info/Analysis: XINFO
Change management ISPF: JUS, BIO, PRUEV
Customers: ~ 300

17. Products - History 1993-1998 1997-2002 2000-2004 2005-2017 2011-2017
IWS/Graph, IWS/BatchAD, IWS/BatchCP, IWS/Audit
Handover systems: JUS (für JCL), BIO (für IWSz)
XINFO (Start with 4 Scanner, today ca. 30 Scanner)
IWS/WebAdmin for distributed
SmartJCL
Continuously enhancements of all products
IWS/WebAdmin for IWS z/OS
ProcMan