When you receive data from an external source it can be weekly monthly quartely in that case manual actions will be sufficient. Hardly any cost improvement when getting automated. When you receive data daily/weekly a MFT (managed File transfer Program) can drop it a location on the server. A scheduler has mostly options to recognize an trigger a batch job. This is common IT operations work. The batch program the scheduler is starting can be a SAS batch script on the server (Batch server LSF etc in SAS terms).
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