Modern job schedulers typically provide a graphical user interface and a single point of control for definition and monitoring of background executions in a distributed network of computers.
Web hosting services provide job scheduling capabilities through a control panel or a webcron solution.
Many programs such as DBMS, backup, ERPs, and BPM also include relevant job-scheduling capabilities.
Organizations needing to automate unrelated IT workload may also leverage further advanced features from a job scheduler, such as: These advanced capabilities can be written by in-house developers but are more often provided by suppliers who specialize in systems-management software.
Job Schedulers have been one of the major components of IT infrastructure since the early mainframe systems.