The demands made on today's IT infrastructures are constantly growing. The integration of all different kinds of IT subsystems and the introduction of new technologies give rise to an increasing number of complex routines and individual processes, which all need to be automated in a heterogeneous system environment. Manual control mechanisms, rigid programming, or the use of impractical job scheduling tools, all turn this task into an insurmountable hurdle. Poor maintainability, high development overheads, together with time-intensive monitoring and troubleshooting, generate huge costs and tie up valuable resources. What is a SOAP? Since 2020, the US market research institute Gartner has called the software class which represents an evolution of Enterprise Job Scheduling and workload automation tools a "Service Orchestration and Automation Platform" (SOAP). The difference between SOAP systems and their predecessors is that the services and workflows of the entire company with all its ...