Guide
A Clean Slate for Enterprise Scheduling
Enterprise scheduling tools have many advantages over the older technology of client-server scheduling tools.
Guide
Is Cron Limiting Your Automation Strategy?
Skybot Scheduler provides many advantages, including event-driven scheudling and cross-platform capabilities, over UNIX cron job scheduling.
Blog
The Top 11 Network Automation Examples
By Kevin Jackson on Mon, 03/27/2017
As your network grows in size and complexity, automation can free up network administrators from repetitive, manual tasks to focus on more strategic, fulfilling projects.
Guide
Workload Automation in the Modern Enterprise
Because there is still a need for recurring application processes to perform activities, there is an increased need for critical back-end computing via workload automation software.
Guide
Who's Minding the Store? When Central Monitoring and Automatic Notification are Essential
Central monitoring and automatic notification are the keys to successful workload automation.
Guide
Enterprise Scheduling ROI
Consolidating scheduling across multiple applications into an enterprise job scheduler increases productivity and helps the bottom line.
On-Demand Webinar
Getting Started with Document Management: The Right Plan
Getting started with document management doesn’t need to be complicated. Make it easy—watch this on-demand webinar.
Guide
Beyond Cron: How to Know When You've Outgrown Cron Scheduling
Cron is a useful tool, but for today’s large, interconnected enterprises it has its limitations. Modern enterprise job scheduling tools offer superior functionality, ease of use, and a more modern, graphical user interface.
Guide
Why You Need an Enterprise Scheduler
The best way to resolve the issue of multiple schedulers is with an enterprise scheduler that can build cross-platform job streams to handle the different applications.
Blog
Automation is Key to Staying in the Driver’s Seat of your Data-Driven Strategy
By Dan Twing on Tue, 03/14/2017
In this guest post, EMA's Dan Twing discusses the data management challenges facing enterprises today and how automation software can help.
Blog
Why Document Management Projects Fail
By Greg J. Schmidt on Mon, 03/06/2017
Find out how to make sure your document management project is a success.
Blog
How DR Compliance Requirements Impact HA Decisions
By Tom Huntington on Wed, 03/01/2017
Disaster recovery requirements are part of the geographic and industry regulations that affect our organizations. Having the right solutions in place can help to avoid penalties and make audits go smoothly. Read on to create a complete compliance toolkit.
On-Demand Webinar
Cloud Migration and Automation
By Pat Cameron
Fortra has just released new research on the state of cloud migration and automation. Find out what we learned and how it can help you with your cloud strategy.
Case Study
Appvion Improves Customer Satisfaction with a Digital Document Repository
Appvion, Inc. manufactures paper—thermal, carbonless, security, inkjet, digital specialty and colored papers. But this Appleton, Wisconsin-based company had a problem when it came to digital documents in their customer web portal. Their existing system just wasn’t up to snuff. It was time to make a change.
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Article
Secret Capabilities of Robot Schedule Revealed
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 01/31/2017
We recently surveyed our Robot Schedule technical support group for “ah ha!” moments that they’ve helped customers realize over the past few years. These tips from our tech gurus have helped customers automate jobs that needed to check a data area before running, track non-Robot jobs for reporting purposes, and check the status of a file before running a job.
Article
What Makes the Good Morning Report So Good?
By Chuck Losinski on Mon, 01/30/2017
There is nothing like waking up to find the latest news delivered right to your doorstep, waiting for you on the printer, or sent to you electronically. For years, our customers have started their days reading the Good Morning report from Robot Schedule.
Blog
The Problem with AFP Forms…
Wed, 01/25/2017
What’s wrong with AFP forms? And is it really time to replace them? Find out.
Blog
Where Data Goes to Die: Business Solutions for Scraping PDFs
Sun, 01/22/2017
Sick of copying and pasting data from PDF to Excel? Business process automation software offers a better way.
Article
Customer Spotlight: Heartland Financial USA, Inc.
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 01/17/2017
The operations team was excited to share how Robot job scheduling and monitoring software has helped them manage their processing needs across platforms from their IBM i.
Blog
Looking for a Cron Replacement? Search No Longer.
Wed, 01/11/2017
Crontab scheduling simply can’t support a growing and changing enterprise. Read on to find out how to seamlessly replace cron with enterprise job scheduling software—and never look back.