Calico Task Scheduling and Automation System description

Have you ever needed to schedule a particular database query to be executed once per day? Trivial enough, depending on the environment, right? What about retrieving XML data from a particular web service, on a scheduled basis? Again, depending on your environment this can be a very simple procedure. Now, what about executing several complex database queries per day that somehow require an ever-changing list of XML data to be retrieved from multiple web services, and then have this XML data loaded back into your database? Now do a hundred minor variations on this, without ever writing a custom application. Interested yet? That's the type of task automation that the Calico system is designed to accomodate. Constructed entirely in command-line PHP for maximum ease of development, package availability and stability, the Calico framework is the solution for automating, scheduling and monitoring dynamic tasks.