Workflow orchestration

Go beyond process automation with RunMyJobs Service Orchestration and Automation Platform by Redwood.

Compose, control and connect your workflows

Coordinate business and IT processes across your technology landscape with advanced workflow orchestration.

  • Intelligent automation design

    RunMyJobs workflows are modular, allowing you to scale and adapt to your business needs.

    Create comprehensive and powerful automations with object-oriented workflow design and management.

  • Resilient job scheduling

    Achieve extremely high job throughput for complex workflows.

    Using centralized dynamic scheduling and purpose-built machine learning, your workflows run on schedule, and RunMyJobs proactively identifies any risks to SLAs.

  • Hybrid-ready technology

    Connect processes and teams across your hybrid landscape.

    Available as SaaS in the cloud or on-premises, RunMyJobs scales with your organization across services and applications without agents, creating a lightweight and flexible deployment.

  • Broad ERP integrations

    Discover comprehensive integrations and templates for execution across SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft and other popular ERPs.

    Streamline your critical workload automations by connecting your ERP with emerging cloud platforms and modules such as SAP S/4 HANA.

  • Round-the-clock support

    Protect your business-critical processes and get the answers you need in 15 minutes with 24/7 support for critical workloads.

    Plus, build your team’s skills with personalized onboarding, on-demand training and certifications.

  • A small resource footprint

    RunMyJobs has a low overall footprint on your existing infrastructure, keeping flexibility high and overhead low.

    Choose on-premises deployment or RunMyJobs Cloud to centralize workflow management based on your requirements.

Automate from start to finish

Automation is one of the keys to cost saving and process reliability in almost all areas of business.

RunMyJobs by Redwood delivers next-level intelligent and efficient automation, creating one seamless, end-to-end automation fabric that caters to a variety of use cases, including:

  • Data management pipelines, such as ETL processes
  • Supply chain management, fulfillment and stock management
  • Financial close and billing

A single workflow can consist of multiple automations with control and management logic to generate more reliable and visible end-to-end processes.

Extend the power of RunMyJobs

Orchestrate unlimited actions across connected systems, including provisioning and decommissioning resources, taking actions in SaaS applications and controlling resources in PaaS solutions, such as ETL services.

RunMyJobs comes with a set of built-in integrations for core business platforms and an ever-growing set of connectors and extensions, including tools for:

  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
  • Business productivity
  • Data center management
  • Data management
  • People and human resources
  • Service management

Unify diverse systems in a single data pipeline

Achieve out-of-the-box workflow orchestration with cloud-native connectors and open integration capabilities via the API Connector Catalog, Web Services API and REST API Connector Wizard. Plus, you’ll find support for SOAP, OData, JDATA, other general APIs and interfaces and remote CLI.

All applications and service connectivity use a secure gateway in the network of your choosing, with minimal deployments of a featherweight agent.

Enjoy the ease of a modular approach

RunMyJobs is built on a highly flexible and programmatic configuration model for easy-to-update workflow design and management.

  • Start with centrally managed connectivity and job templates for each integration to bootstrap your automations.
  • Blueprint automations into workflows to power repeatable and stable processes.
  • Build conditions and event triggers in the design view with detailed planning visualization, then test your workflow right in the design view.
  • Manage versioning and auditing natively in the product or third-party tools and confidently update workflows with job blueprinting.
  • Extend workflows with developer extensions to incorporate forms, reporting and custom business logic.

Automation developers can reuse components, runtime dependencies, customizable parameters and configurations to minimize technical debt and operational overhead.

Stay in control with advanced oversight

Eliminate the downsides of daily scheduling and other traditional job schedulers with a centralized workflow engine that offers easy-to-understand global workflow scheduling, triggers and health monitoring.

  • Reschedule jobs dynamically instead of on a static schedule so you risk fewer business process failures.
  • Access dashboards to monitor real-time data on process queues and workflow status across your organization.
  • Identify problem workflows easily and proactively with predictive SLA analytics.
  • Manage external system performance, placing the right load on applications for successful automation executions every time.
  • Extend visibility and oversight of critical activities through fully integrated MFT server capabilities.

Customize your platform experience

Align RunMyJobs with the needs of your users and organization with its self-service capabilities.

Use integrations for self-service in custom service portals or ITSM tools like ServiceNow.

Customize the navigation to provide focus for business users and citizen developers and enable user-friendly, human-in-the-loop steps by building simple forms to present pre-configured options. Integrate external systems into the product for less user context switching.

Use developer extensions to enable expansive functions to manage workflows specific to a user’s process and set up custom business logic to drive your end-to-end processes in your preferred way.

RunMyJobs Cloud: A true SaaS orchestration platform delivering true SaaS benefits

Recognized as Best SaaS Workload Automation Solution by Enterprise Management Associates® (EMA) research and analysis group

  • Always up to date

    Benefit from easy access to the latest updates and new integrations, which show up in the catalog the day they become available.
  • Consistently available

    Your RunMyJobs Cloud is unmatched in reliability, with cross-region disaster recovery and 24/7 monitoring by our teams.
  • Reliably secure

    We maintain your dedicated RunMyJobs Cloud environment according to industry-leading security and service delivery standards.
  • Free of limitations

    Only pay for what you use with usage-based billing. Automate any application and use any connector with no additional licensing.

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Workflow orchestration FAQs

What is workflow orchestration?

Workflow orchestration refers to the automated management and coordination of tasks within a workflow or process. It ensures that each step in a sequence of operations is executed in a predefined order, often involving complex processes or data pipelines. This automation is crucial for optimizing efficiency, reducing human error and integrating various technologies like cloud-based services, microservices architecture and tools such as Docker or Kubernetes. By automating workflows, organizations can streamline operations, improve scalability and enhance overall productivity.

Learn more about workflow orchestration and its role in service orchestration and automation platforms.

What is process orchestration?

Process orchestration involves automating and coordinating a series of interdependent tasks or workflows across a tech ecosystem. It ensures that business processes, from simple to complex, are executed efficiently and reliably. By leveraging tools like Apache Airflow or other workflow orchestration tools, organizations can streamline operations, optimize resource allocation and enhance visibility into critical processes. With well-executed orchestration, it’s easy to meet business needs, reduce bottlenecks and integrate new technologies such as artificial intelligence and microservices architecture to drive digital transformation.

Explore process orchestration and how using a low-code solution like RunMyJobs makes it easy to build, automate and deploy workflows.

What is the difference between workflow orchestration and automation?

Workflow orchestration refers to coordinating and managing complex sequences of tasks or processes across different systems and stakeholders. It involves setting up and executing workflows in a structured manner, often integrating various tools and technologies to ensure smooth operation.

On the other hand, automation focuses on the execution of specific tasks or processes without manual intervention. It simplifies repetitive tasks by implementing predefined rules and triggers, enhancing efficiency and reducing human error.

While automation handles individual tasks, workflow orchestration manages the flow and dependencies between multiple tasks or processes, ensuring comprehensive control and optimization.

See how RunMyJobs lets you centralize and optimize any IT or business process.

What is workflow automation?

Workflow automation involves using technology to streamline and automate repetitive tasks and processes within an organization. It aims to replace manual intervention with predefined rules and conditions, allowing tasks to be executed automatically based on triggers such as time, events or data inputs. Automating workflows enhances efficiency by reducing human error, optimizing resource utilization and accelerating the overall pace of operations. Key components often include integrating various apps, managing approvals and ensuring visibility into process status through notifications and observability tools.

With a cloud-based platform for workflow automation that seamlessly coordinates processes across IT and business domains, organizations are empowered to swiftly develop new services and applications and expand as needed. Top workflow automation platforms leverage pre-built templates, wizards, calendars and schedules and automate virtually anything using over 25 scripting languages and user-friendly interfaces.

Read the ultimate guide on workflow automation and how to benefit from it.

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