Workload Automation Consulting

Where automation actually works,
and reporting tells the truth.

ESCIT Ordinary is a specialist consulting practice for enterprises that run on Control‑M, batch processing, and operational data they can't afford to lose. We architect the systems your business depends on at 2 a.m.

Tim Marshall — Founder & Principal Consultant, ESCIT Ordinary
Timothy Marshall · Workload Automation Consultant
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Monthly executions managed
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Daily batch jobs orchestrated
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Control‑M environments upgraded
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Years in workload automation
Two decades. Across the enterprise.

Worked with the names you already trust.

DELL
Cognizant
IBM
BMC
xMatters
Blue Mantis
Pacific Life
ALSAC · St. Jude
ServiceNow
PagerDuty
DELL
Cognizant
IBM
BMC
xMatters
Blue Mantis
Pacific Life
ALSAC · St. Jude
ServiceNow
PagerDuty
Enterprise strategy session
"Most automation consulting stops at the deployment. We design the workflow, build the integrations, write the reporting, train the team, and stay accountable to the outcome."
Our Approach

We don't hand you a tool and walk away.

ESCIT Ordinary was founded on a simple idea: most IT consulting is ordinary. We aren't. Every engagement is led by senior practitioners with two decades of enterprise scale behind them — not by a sales engineer with a slide deck.

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Automated reporting that tells the truth

Custom dashboards and automated pipelines that eliminate manual work, surface real-time visibility, and give finance, ops, and engineering one version of reality.

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Seamless import & export integration

Clean, reliable data flows in and out of your stack. Whether SOAP, REST, file transfer, or vendor handoff, nothing gets lost in translation.

03

ITSM & cross-platform connectivity

ServiceNow, PagerDuty, and ITSM integrations that connect your platforms to the rest of the ecosystem — no silos, no manual handoffs, no surprises.

04

End‑to‑end ownership

Strategy through deployment through optimization. We architect, build, deliver, and stay accountable to the metrics you measure us by.

Services

Four practices. One uncompromising standard.

Specialist consulting for the systems most people are afraid to touch. Every engagement is led by senior practitioners with two decades of enterprise scale behind them.

Reporting

Custom dashboards, automated reporting pipelines, and PowerBI repositories built on the data your business actually runs on. Real-time visibility, audit-ready, finance-friendly. Quarterly review, SOX evidence, and operational KPIs delivered on a schedule you set.

PowerBI · SQL · Audit Pipelines

Automation

End-to-end automation engineering — CI/CD pipelines, HashiCorp and CyberArk integrations, IdentityNow validation, SOX-compliant release workflows, and custom scripting in Python, Perl, PowerShell, and shell. We design, deploy, and own the outcome.

CI/CD · Scripting · SOX Compliance

Control‑M Batch Processing

Two decades of BMC Control-M expertise. Migrations, version upgrades, DR exercises with zero data loss, integrations with PagerDuty and ServiceNow, and Tier-3 support for the environments your business depends on. Certified V7, V8, and V9.

BMC Certified · DR · Tier 3 Support

Assessments

Independent automation maturity assessments, audit readiness reviews, and architecture deep dives. We tell you what's working, what's costing you, and what to fix first — with a roadmap your CFO and your CTO will both sign off on.

Maturity · Audit Readiness · Roadmaps
How We Work

Four phases. Zero handwaving.

Every engagement follows the same disciplined arc — whether we're upgrading thirty Control-M environments or rebuilding a single broken reporting pipeline.

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Discover

One-hour scoping call followed by a structured environment audit. We map what exists, what's broken, and what's blocking the next step.

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Architect

A written architecture plan with milestones, dependencies, risk register, and the metrics we'll be measured on. No surprises later.

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Deliver

Senior practitioners build, integrate, and migrate — with continuous documentation, progress reporting, and stakeholder visibility.

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Operate

Tier-3 support, training delivery, runbook handover, and DR validation. We hand it off only when your team is genuinely ready.

Technical Capabilities

The toolkit. The compliance frameworks. The platforms we know cold.

Automation Platforms
  • BMC Control-M (Enterprise Manager & Server)
  • Tivoli Workload Scheduler
  • CA WLA D-Series
  • Enterprise Manager configuration
Languages & Scripting
  • Python, Perl, PowerShell
  • Shell (CSH, KSH, SH, TCL/TK)
  • Java, Bat
  • SOAP UI & REST API integration
Data & Reporting
  • PowerBI repositories & dashboards
  • Oracle, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase
  • Informatica integration
  • Audit-ready reporting pipelines
Compliance & Governance
  • ITIL & SOX integration
  • Separation of duties & RACI
  • HashiCorp & CyberArk vaulting
  • IdentityNow automation
Resilience & Operations
  • Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
  • High Availability architecture
  • PagerDuty incident integration
  • ServiceNow ITSM connectivity
Operating Systems
  • Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu)
  • Solaris, AIX, HP-UX
  • Windows Server (NT — 2022)
  • GCP foundational (gcloud SDK)
Clients

Trusted by enterprises that can't afford to gamble.

Blue Mantis
Managed IT Services
Pacific Life
Insurance & Financial Services
ALSAC · St. Jude
Children's Research Hospital
Get in touch

Let's talk about what's not working.

Whether you need a Control-M migration, an audit-ready reporting pipeline, or an honest assessment of where your automation stack actually stands, we'd like to hear from you. Most engagements begin with a one-hour discovery call — no obligation, no slide deck.

Office
Dayspring, Nova Scotia
Canada
Hours
Mon–Fri · 08:00–18:00 AST
On-call coverage available