Transactions
A bank that processes transactions such as international money transfers after-hours. After-hours batch processing was once extremely common in the banking industry. Many firms are slowly shifting towards more modern techniques such as workload automation that allows asynchronous processing to be efficiently run and managed on cloud infrastructure.Reporting
A manufacturer produces a daily operational report for a production line that is run in a batch window and delivered to managers in the early morning.Integration
A legacy system publishes a list of transactions as an hourly batch that is consumed by an ERP.Research
A researcher submits a batch job to a high performance computing environment that performs calculations related to particle physics.Billing
A telecom company runs a monthly batch job to process call data records that include the details of millions of phone calls to calculate charges.| Overview: Batch Processing | ||
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Definition | The execution of non-interactive data processing jobs that operate on a batch of data items. | |
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