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The term '''Workload Automation''' was originally coined by Gartner Group Vice-President Milind Govekar as an identification of new emergincemerging trends that represent an evolution of traditional [[job scheduler]]s which needed to react to major architectural changes in applications and IT infrastructure and the dynamic demands of IT. Workload automation needs to be able to coordinate—in real-time—a varied set of workload types with complex dependencies across a broad spectrum of operating systems and application platforms.
 
A scheduling model based only upon calendar events is not sufficient to meet the demands of today’s automated data centers. The requirement for batch submission of workloads driven by date/time dependencies still exists, but on-demand IT processing requirements have expanded job submission triggers far beyond the time dimension.