Observability

Automation Observability
Achieve Unified Visibility Across Your Hybrid Environment

Gain complete, real-time visibility and control across your complex hybrid IT environment, from mainframe to multi-cloud. Our solution provides the unified insights needed to transform reactive operations into proactive, intelligent automation, ensuring auditable compliance and operational excellence.

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Key Challenges
in Automation Observability

Technical Fragmentation and Operational Complexity

The evolution of IT, from z/OS mainframes to diverse cloud environments and specialized tools like workload automation, RPA, and stream processing, has led to significant technical fragmentation. Operating across these automation silos demands constant context switching and manual intervention, resulting in low speeds and reduced quality. Without a unified view, enterprises face alert fatigue and UI overload, making it difficult to prioritize critical tasks and pinpoint issues across disparate systems, often leading to missed SLAs and increased operational risk.

Data Overload and Lack of Contextual Insights

Workload automation environments generate an immense volume of logs, metrics, events, and traces across various systems, applications, and platforms. This data often lacks correlation and a shared timeline, creating "monitoring islands" where dashboards appear healthy in isolation but fail to reveal the true operational picture. Without contextual insights, IT teams waste valuable time manually piecing together information to identify root causes, resulting in slower troubleshooting, higher MTTR, and a reactive firefighting culture.

Rising Pressure for Regulatory Compliance and Audit Readiness

Stricter global regulations, such as GDPR, require tamper-proof log retention and auditable processes, especially for critical operational data. Many organizations struggle to manage and analyze the vast amounts of log data generated by workload automation environments effectively. Relying on disparate tools or manual backups for compliance often leads to inefficiencies, increased costs, and heightened risks of non-compliance, making audit preparation a weeks-long, resource-intensive endeavor.

Future-Proofing Against Skills Gaps and Knowledge Drain

Enterprises face a significant skills shortage, particularly as experienced mainframe and automation personnel retire, taking decades of accumulated process knowledge with them. This "knowledge drain" poses a high risk to operational stability and modernization efforts. Existing monitoring approaches often require deep, specialized expertise for each tool, further exacerbating the problem. Without solutions that democratize insights and automate complex analysis, organizations struggle to maintain operational continuity and innovate.

Our Solution
for Enterprise Automation Observability

Our comprehensive solution addresses these challenges head-on, transforming fragmented IT landscapes into unified, intelligent operational environments.

Centralized Observability for Hybrid IT

ANOW! Observe provides a central operations intelligence solution purpose-built for workload automation and orchestration across hybrid environments. It leverages OpenTelemetry to collect, normalize, and unify metrics, events, logs, and traces from diverse sources, including mainframes, distributed systems, cloud platforms, and Control-M. This creates a single pane of glass for all automated workflows, offering real-time transparency and actionable insights across your entire IT ecosystem, eliminating automation blind spots and reducing MTTR.

Tamper-Proof Log Management & Audit Archive

ANOW! Observe consolidates logs from diverse sources, including job logs, output, Java logs, and Syslog, into a centralized, OAIS-compliant repository specifically designed for WLA environments. It features flexible retention policies, powerful search, and intelligent analytics to simplify audits and detect anomalies. Logs are securely archived with cryptographic integrity and AI-native PII filtering, ensuring compliance with global standards, providing audit-proof storage for critical operational data without performance impact.

Real-Time Process Monitoring & Critical Path Awareness

Our solution delivers real-time process monitoring with auto-refreshing data and live system status updates, enabling immediate visualization of changes such as traffic spikes or errors. It integrates seamlessly with your existing WLA tools, such as Control-M, via OpenTelemetry, offering low-latency performance and visualizing job interconnection insights. This enables proactive response and smarter prioritization across various environments, ensuring you understand the impact of issues on business-critical services and key workflows.

Metric Monitoring for System Health & Performance

The platform provides continuous tracking of key performance indicators (KPIs) to deliver real-time insights into the health and performance of your systems. Leveraging OpenTelemetry, it offers specialized monitoring tailored for Kubernetes and containerized environments. This deep visibility allows for quick detection of anomalies, resource constraints, or performance degradation, ensuring optimal system reliability and efficient resource utilization, and integrating seamlessly with your existing infrastructure to provide a unified health overview.

Your Benefits
of Unified Automation Orchestration

Achieve Auditable Compliance at the Push of a Button

Automatically collect, archive, and analyze all operational logs in a tamper-proof, OAIS-compliant repository, reducing audit preparation from weeks to hours and ensuring adherence to global standards.

Unify Your Hybrid IT Landscape

Gain comprehensive, real-time visibility across mainframes, distributed systems, and cloud environments through a single pane of glass, eliminating operational silos and enabling proactive management of complex automation workflows.

Deliver Verifiable ROI Within 12 Months

Reduce manual tasks by 40-60%, cut batch runtimes by 20-30%, and drastically shorten Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR), resulting in significant cost savings and minimized business risk.

Resources
for Automation Observability

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EMA Impact Brief: ANOW!® Observe From Analysts’ Perspective

Read this analyst piece from Enterprise Management Associates following the launch of Beta Systems’ new observability product: ANOW!® Observe. Learn how this turnkey observability platform leverages OpenTelemetry standard and Beta Systems’ decades-long expertise in workload automation to deliver full visibility and control to enterprises wanting to modernize their IT environments.
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From Insight to Action:​ How ANOW!® Observe Transforms Enterprise Automation​

Automation and orchestration processes have become an integral part of today’s enterprises. Yet, it is often unclear why workflows slow down, where bottlenecks occur, or what causes disruptions. ANOW!® Observe addresses this challenge by providing transparency across complex environments, helping you detect risks early, and enabling you not only to monitor but to actively control and optimize automation.
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EMA Radar Report for Workload Automation and Orchestration 2023

Explore the top Workload Automation and Orchestration solutions on the market according to the most comprehensive and reliable research in the industry: the Radar Report prepared by Enterprise Management and Associates, the independent research and analysis organization. Learn what makes ANOW!® Automate by Beta Systems the leading WLA product for the third consecutive time.
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Unlocking the Future of Observability: OpenTelemetry’s Role in IT Performance and Innovation

This latest research carried out by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) explores how enterprises are leveraging OpenTelemetry to drive operational efficiency, workforce productivity, and business innovation.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Unlike generic monitoring tools that lack automation context or reporting add-ons that aren't embedded into orchestration logic, ANOW! Observe is purpose-built for enterprise automation. It provides execution-native, OpenTelemetry-driven observability, offering deep insights into job dependencies and workflow correlation that other solutions miss.

Our approach is specifically designed for phased rollouts, allowing you to integrate our solution incrementally without operational disruption. We prioritize coexistence with your current tools and protect your existing investments, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal risk while unifying your hybrid IT landscape.

We provide a clear pathway to demonstrable ROI within 12 months. We focus on quantifiable metrics like cutting manual tasks by 40-60%, reducing batch runtimes by 20-30%, and drastically shortening audit preparation. This directly translates to significant cost savings and reduced operational risk, proving tangible value.

That's a critical concern, especially in DACH, Benelux & Nordics. Our architecture ensures data processing and storage adhere strictly to EU regulations like GDPR, with local support and implementation partners. This provides complete data sovereignty and compliance peace of mind, with an OAIS-compliant archive.

We understand the aversion to 'yet another tool.' Our solution is designed for seamless, no-rip-and-place integration with your existing infrastructure, enhancing rather than replacing your current investments. It provides a unified view that eliminates fragmentation, leveraging OpenTelemetry for standardized data collection without disruption.