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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On-Demand Webinar
Streamline Document Management with Automate
Learn how to further streamline your document management efforts by creating automated business processes with AutoMate.
On-Demand Webinar
Job Scheduling: Basic to Advanced
By Pat Cameron
Fortra offers two automation platforms to handle the complex scheduling needs of modern enterprises: AutoMate and Skybot. Join this live webinar to learn about using these solutions to orchestrate processes from the server down to the user’s desktop.
Blog
Job Scheduling: Basic to Advanced (Webinar Recap)
Thu, 12/08/2016
As IT environments become increasingly complex, so do a business's job scheduling needs. Learn how Fortra job scheduling and robotic process automation solutions can help you streamline your unique IT processes.
Article
Automate Roadmap: Key Features for Building an Enterprise Automation Strategy
Thu, 12/08/2016
An effective automation strategy requires a comprehensive platform that integrates business processes across the entire enterprise. Learn how Automate’s enterprise-class solutions can help you streamline operations and make better and faster strategic decisions.
On-Demand Webinar
Top 5 Reasons You Need a Test Environment with your Job Scheduler
By Pat Cameron
If you're using an enterprise job scheduler, do you have a test environment for your job scheduling? Here's why you should.
Guide
Download “Automation without Alienation”
Automation has the potential to transform the way we work. It allows organizations drive efficiencies, increase reliability, and cut costs. But not everyone is on board with the change. Automation can be frightening to employees who worry about losing their jobs to robots and computers.
This white paper from Computing tackles the problem of how to go forward implementing automation while...
Case Study
Bumble Bee Seafood Enjoys Easy Implementation and Top-notch Support with Automate Schedule
Bumble Bee Seafood is North America’s largest branded shelf-stable seafood company. Since 2014, Bumble Bee has used Automate Schedule to run jobs spanning SAP systems and Bumble Bee’s network servers. Bumble Bee has an international presence and uses Automate Schedule to manage processes on servers spanning multiple continents.
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Press Release
HelpSystems (now Fortra) Expands its Business Process Automation Offerings with Acquisition of Network Automation, Inc.
With this acquisition, Fortra offers one of the industry's most comprehensive IT and business process automation portfolios with virtual and cloud-based technology, as well as a broad set of application integrations.
Case Study
For Centralized Data Processing, KeHE Relies on Fortra
As the nation’s leading distributor of natural, organic, specialty, ethnic, and gourmet food products, KeHE Distributors has helped thousands of retailers—from the smallest independent stores to the largest supermarket chains—meet the constantly growing demand for products that help people to live well.
John Kinnaird is the National Operating Center Manager responsible for supporting both...