no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . december 2012 vinzant software inc. type private industry software & programming it services founded 1987 1 headquarters hobart in usa key people david vinzant president founder john vinzant coo douglas mcdowell vp of development products global ecs website www.vinzantsoftware.com vinzant software is a privately held company that is based in hobart in . vinzant software develops and markets enterprise job scheduling solutions for most platforms including windows unix linux as400 and mpe ix . it was founded in 1988 by david vinzant and has solely focused on job scheduling since 1995 . contents 1 history 2 solutions 3 products 3.1 global ecs 4 implementations 5 platforms 6 industry affiliations 7 see also 8 external links 9 references history edit vinzant inc. was started in 1987 by dave vinzant . initially it developed add on programs to a property management software package called skyline which vinzant had been involved in developing . as client server computing was first getting started in 1988 vinzant inc. worked with microsoft and novell . vinzant developed sqlfile the first shipping front end for the ashton tate microsoft sql server in 1989 . 2 sqlfile was expanded to include support for dos os 2 and windows . it was a flexible development tool that created screens and reports that accessed data stored in microsoft sql server netware sql and oracle server . 3 in 1990 novell announced the netware loadable module nlm version of netware sql and the sqlfile system for dos was shipped to thousands of users worldwide as part of novell s client server starter kit . 4 due to their experience with oracle and netware vinzant inc. was selected by oracle to develop the installation program for the oracle server for netware . 5 other sql based products developed by vinzant inc. include the sql basic library which allowed compiled basic to be used with microsoft sql server and the sql server connectivity pack which allowed sql server to be run on novell networks . due to its involvement with companies that were beginning to downsize their operations to pc s vinzant inc. recognized the need for a mission critical job scheduling product . with their development of the event control server ecs in the early 1990s vinzant shifted its focus to the emerging job scheduling and batch processing market . at that time a variety of simple pc utility products were on the market but the downsizers were looking for a product that could manage mission critical applications . ecs was developed to provide solutions to some of the problems with other products such as providing a central point of control for a network of dos os 2 and windows based pc s. in 1999 ecs was re designed to provide support for unix and linux systems . the result was the global event control server global ecs or gecs due to its ip based architecture and ability to control computers and processes worldwide . solutions edit business process automation job scheduling batch scheduling products edit global ecs edit global ecs is the main product offering from vinzant software . it is an event driven enterprise level job scheduling solution . it supports native agents for other platforms including unix linux as400 and mpe ix that can all be managed from a single point using either a windows or browser based client . in addition to traditional time based job scheduling it supports triggers such as the existence of a file or completion of another job s or batch . global ecs includes user definable recovery actions that allow for built in job logic to allow the production flow to self correct . it also includes flexible exception management that allows for multiple methods of notification . implementations edit job scheduling and batch processing are tools to help manage data processing systems by automating operations improving quality reducing costs and improving resource utilization . typical uses are scheduling file transfers database updates report generation compilations and backups . global ecs is particularly used by businesses whose core product is their information or data such as financial institutions banking insurance securities brokerage retirement and credit cards government agencies and information resources . other industries to use global ecs are energy health care retail and manufacturing . platforms edit as 400 aix hp ux linux solaris tru64 unixware windows freebsd mpe ix industry affiliations edit apple developer connection hp developer and solution partner program ibm developerworks intel software partner program microsoft developer network novell developer network red hat developer program 6 sco developer network sgi global developer program 7 sun developer network see also edit information management business process automation job scheduling external links edit vinzantsoftware.com official company site . processor magazine job scheduler matrix . references edit about vinzant software vinzant ships front end for sql server pc week june 12 1989 . vinzant david r. running sql server on netware lan times aug. 7 1989 . sqlfile software license agreement between novell inc. and vinzant inc. dec. 26 1990 software magazine sept. 1994 red hat vendor profile sgi developer network listing retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title vinzant software & oldid 609558958 categories job schedulinghidden categories orphaned articles from december 2012all orphaned articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage 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