Press Release
HelpSystems (now Fortra) Named Major Contender in Everest Group 2019 RPA Products PEAK Matrix
Automate, the robotic process automation (RPA) solution from Fortra, debuted on analyst firm Everest Group's PEAK Matrix.
Article
Mobile NOW for Robot Network
By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 08/21/2019
The web interface for Robot Network is a browser-based tool that uses Fortra Insite to help you access system performance data for your network of IBM i systems from any laptop, tablet, or smartphone. You can also work in the Robot Network Status Center to see and respond to messages and other events that have been escalated to the Robot Network host system.
Article
Mobile Dashboards for IBM i Monitoring
By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 08/07/2019
Robot Console leverages the power of Fortra' dashboards containing browser access! Mobile-friendly dashboards allow you to combine key message summary and resource status data into a single, intuitive view. Read on to learn more.
Article
Getting Started with Website Automation
Wed, 07/24/2019
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.
Case Study
Nationale-Nederlanden Brings Disparate Applications Together with RPA
Nationale-Nederlanden is a global financial services company offering medium and long-term savings and investment solutions, insurance, and pensions to more than 800,000 customers throughout Spain.
Article
How to Do CRM Automation
Mon, 07/15/2019
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.
Article
Ask An Engineer: PowerHA FAQ
By Brian Nordland on Mon, 07/15/2019
Brian Nordland, principal software engineer for PowerHA at Fortra, takes a break from coding to answer some important questions about PowerHA.
Article
IBM i 7.4 Operating System Upgrade Overview
By Tom Huntington on Fri, 07/05/2019
Let’s face it—upgrading your operating system is a big project. But believe it or not, the whole process boils down to just two steps: planning and backing up!
Press Release
Skytap Partners with HelpSystems (now Fortra) to Bring Robot HA to the Public Cloud
Skytap has partnered with Fortra to bring Robot HA to the public cloud, accelerating the movement of IBM i data to the cloud, keeping it synchronized, and ensuring high availability and disaster recovery capabilities for IBM i applications running in Skytap.
Article
Three Tactics to Optimize Your IBM i Disk Space
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 06/18/2019
Don’t wait for a critical iSeries storage issue to catch you off-guard. Instead, follow these top three tips for using Robot Space to manage your disk space automatically.
Article
Capacity Planning and the Culture of Proof
By Timothy Prickett Morgan on Fri, 05/31/2019
Capacity planning is one of the most important things that a company will do, and yet there are still many companies that do it on the back of the envelope. Read this article and learn how to do it right.
Article
Take Your Work to Warp Drive!
By Chuck Losinski on Thu, 05/16/2019
If your mission is work management, IBM i is the best starship in the fleet. Routing certain types of work into subsystems and memory pools, separating dissimilar work, and giving jobs the appropriate CPU time—this is work management the Windows world can only dream about.
Article
HelpSystems (now Fortra) Rebrands Automate BPA Server to Automate Plus
Wed, 05/01/2019
Fortra is excited to announce that Automate BPA Server, our powerful enterprise business process automation (BPA) software, is now Automate Plus . All the features you know and love in Automate BPA Server are still available but Automate Plus aims to provide a more robust set of automation tools.
Article
How to Close the AS/400 Skills Gap
By Tom Huntington on Wed, 05/01/2019
Read this article to learn how organizations are handling the AS/400 (iSeries, IBM i) skills shortage in 2019.
Article
Two-Way Message Response with Robot
By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 05/01/2019
You have the afternoon off—but not the responsibility of monitoring your system for issues. This includes responding to application and system messages as they occur on your production IBM i jobs. You don’t want to carry your laptop around just in case you need to VPN back to answer a message that is waiting on your month-end process. What option do you have?