Enhancing Azure DevOps with ANOW! Automate: From CI/CD to Enterprise-Grade Delivery

Stonebranch’s Universal Automation Center (UAC) has built a solid reputation as a modern, event-driven workload automation platform, and for many enterprise IT teams, it does the job well. But no single platform fits every environment, budget, or migration timeline, and if you’re reading this, you're probably already comparing what else is out there. Whether you’re evaluating a first workload automation purchase or replacing a legacy scheduler and want to weigh Stonebranch against the rest of the field, this guide breaks down the five strongest Stonebranch alternatives for 2026.

Are you considering moving from your current scheduler or workload automation platform? In this webinar on demand, Adam Timle and Ariel Kenneth Ampol share practical guidance for planning and delivering a successful migration. Learn how to identify risks early, minimize disruption and manage the transition to a modern automation environment with confidence.

The IBM Z Workload Scheduler (IZWS) orchestrates business-critical processing at massive scale, yet it rarely appears in mainframe security conversations focused on access control and perimeter defense. Someone with legitimate scheduler access, such as a compromised account, a malicious insider, or a mistaken administrator, can alter or delete scheduling definitions without tripping any alarm, and standard logs record that a change happened without preserving a way to reverse it. In this article, we examine this challenge and present a solution using Beta Systems' IWS/Audit.