ANOW! Observe – Turning Enterprise Automation into Operational Control

Christian Vaters

Product Manager for ANOW! Observe, Beta Systems

Marius Jansen

IT Specialist Workload Automation & Scheduling

Enterprise automation environments are growing faster than ever – more jobs, more dependencies, more integrations, more critical business impact.

Yet when something fails, teams still jump between tools, logs, tickets, and dashboards trying to understand what actually happened.

Automation has scaled. Operational transparency has not.

In this session, together with our pilot customer LVM, we show how ANOW! Observe brings clarity to complex automation landscapes. Instead of isolated alerts and fragmented signals, automation becomes visible end-to-end. Context is automatically enriched. Dependencies become transparent. Incidents become structured.

From unified data ingestion to correlated insights, targeted alerting, and governed remediation – ANOW! Observe transforms automation from reactive firefighting into operational control.

If automation runs your business, you need to understand it before you can scale it.

Video Information:

Language: English
Subtitles: English, German

Authors

Christian Vaters

Product Manager for ANOW! Observe, Beta Systems

Since July 2023, Christian Vaters has been Product Manager at Beta Systems, responsible for the development of ANOW! Observe, the observability solution for orchestration and automation. Previously, he worked for a leading European telecommunications group as well as for a major German multi-line insurance provider, holding positions in IT operations, project management, and team leadership. His expertise spans workload orchestration and automation across both z/OS and distributed environments. Today, his focus is on observability, driving transparency, efficiency, and reliability in complex automation landscapes.

Marius Jansen

IT Specialist Workload Automation & Scheduling

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