Blog
Monitoring and Planning in a Solaris Environment
Tue, 12/30/2014
Learn how to manage your Solaris environment--optimize hardware utilization, conserve datacenter floor space, power, and cooling, build a scalable architecture and keep up with growth and performance requirements--with TeamQuest.
Case Study
Focal Point Saves Time with Automate Schedule
"Automate Schedule will send you a notification if something delays or fails, and then you can react to it.”
Case Study
Focal Point Transitions to Cross-Platform Automation with Fortra
Focal Point has experienced great success since they began using Fortra enterprise job scheduling solutions. One huge ROI benefit is that Focal Point’s IT team saves time—they no longer have to monitor the job processes constantly.
Blog
Agile Operations for the Software Defined Data Center and the Cloud
Mon, 07/07/2014
Cloud and DevOps drive need for new performance management software architecture.
Case Study
Improving Informatica ETL Processing
"Now Automate Schedule manages the schedule and we save four to five hours a day and get everything finished on time.”
Case Study
Fundtech Improves Service, Expands Business, and Lowers IT Overhead
“I think it’s important to share information about the good products behind our services. Our customers know that Automate Schedule is protecting their file transfers.”
Case Study
Service Corp Company Benefits From Automation
"Automate Schedule's audit log is crucial to us because one of our SOX controls is to validate that we keep schedule logs for a certain period of time. An audit log is critical for a scheduler."
Case Study
Automate Schedule Brings Real-Time Operations Reactivity to Energy Solutions
"Automate Schedule is a critical piece because transactions with our utilities are done essentially on a real-time basis."
Case Study
Bayer in Italia Simplifies IT Management with Automate Schedule
“Using Automate Schedule's checking and monitoring capabilities, we’ve increased the level of control we have over job flow and scheduling.”
Article
Vityl and ITIL
Wed, 02/05/2014
TeamQuest (a Fortra company) can help organizations improve their chances at a successful ITIL implementation through the ITIL best practices listed in this article.
Blog
Making the Best Use of Limited Resources
Wed, 02/05/2014
Capacity planning solutions can help organizations make the best use of limited resources in their IT environments.
Article
Supporting ITIL Objectives
Tue, 02/04/2014
Many IT organizations are implementing ITIL as a strategy for improving IT Service Management. The ITIL framework provides best practices and structured processes for managing and delivering IT services.
Article
Implementing a Consolidation Strategy
Mon, 02/04/2013
Improve Service quality
"IT organizations should engage in a server consolidation project with three major goals: cost reduction, agility improvement and service-level improvement."
Source: “Key Issues for Servers,” Gartner Inc.
GOAL: IMPLEMENT A CONSOLIDATION STRATEGY
Many companies are re-evaluating their IT infrastructures in light of changing business practices, economic demands, and...
Blog
Ensure Availability at a Reasonable Cost to Meet Business SLAs
Mon, 02/04/2013
Availability is a key indicator of how successfully an IT organization is supporting the company’s business objectives. Are required service levels in terms of workload volume and response times being achieved consistently for the business units? If not, the impact can be significant: a stoppage or slowdown can, in a matter of minutes, disrupt your supply chain and result in lost transactions,...
Blog
Email Integration and Automation in Customer Relationship Management
Wed, 04/18/2012
Automate handled the repetitive work that otherwise bogged down our manager and the entire sales department by automating the process of inbound email inquiries.
Article
Discover Automate's New Capabilities for Office 365
Wed, 08/03/2011
With the eagerly anticipated release of Microsoft’s cloud-based service, Office 365, on June 28, Network Automation immediately set to work on ensuring the current Microsoft Office automation facilities in Automate were enhanced to provide its customers with equivalent automation capabilities.
Guide
How to Manage IT Resource Consumption
At an application level with Vityl Capacity Management
In this guide, John Miecielica of Metavante, provides a step-by-step example showing how he uses Vityl Capacity Management to analyze IT resource consumption at an application level. This key capability is especially important in today’s environments where multiple applications run on a server or multiple servers might be required to...