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Backup Basics: Saving Your Data and Your Job

You need a backup strategy to test your company’s disaster recovery plan and, despite its reputation for reliability, administrators still need to back up their IBM i. A sound backup strategy should also restore individual user objects to account for human error.
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RPA Use Case: Automated Invoice Processing

Text Manual invoice processing can be a hassle for Accounts Payable departments even for the simplest of processes. Routing invoices for approval and connecting all the systems involved takes valuable time from multiple people, every time an invoice needs to be paid...
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RPA Use Case: Automating CRM Reports

Text Reporting is a vital part of any business. Without data pulled from critical business systems, people can’t make informed decisions that help grow their business. RPA plays a key role in helping businesses retrieve time lost to pulling and parsing data. There...
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Lessons Learned from IBM's Native Scheduler

Your shop runs more than 30 jobs each day. Your jobs must communicate across IBM i and another OS. You need to monitor them and generate reports for audits or SLAs. Do your existing job schedulers really meet your needs?
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How to Automate Excel Reports

Set up an Excel automation task using Automate, robotic process automation (RPA) software from Fortra. Download a free trial of automation software and automate Excel reports today.
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Workload Groups in IBM i 7.4

Did you know? IBM i Workload Groups are a powerful yet under-utilized feature of the operating system that have been made more flexible with IBM i 7.4 (V7R4). Read on to learn more.
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Getting Started with Website Automation

Set up a website automation task using Automate, robotic process automation (RPA) software from Fortra. Download a free trial of automation software and set up a web automation task today.
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How to Do CRM Automation

Use robotic process automation (RPA) to easily integrate your CRM system with your most critical business applications to streamline your business processes. Learn how with Automate.
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Ask An Engineer: PowerHA FAQ

Brian Nordland, principal software engineer for PowerHA at Fortra, takes a break from coding to answer some important questions about PowerHA.