Resources
On-Demand Webinar

Getting Started with Your Cloud Migration

By Keith Digby
    You’ve decided to migrate to the cloud, but what migration strategy will keep your costs down and be most efficient?  You have two main strategies for moving workloads to the cloud: Refactoring or Lift and Shift. Refactoring requires more time on the front end to optimize workloads prior to migrating. Lift and Shift moves eligible workloads right away, optimizing...
Infrastructure Management
On-Demand Webinar

5 Ways RPA Projects Fail

Thu, 03/22/2018
  An estimated 30 to 40 percent of initial robotic process automation (RPA) projects fail to meet expectations. With any new, transformative technology, failures are going to happen. But with the right amount of planning, expectation setting, and execution, failed projects can be avoided or turned around.  Watch Fortra and Avasant as they discuss five pitfalls that...
On-Demand Webinar

How to Improve Your Organization's IT Maturity

By Per Bauer
IT Maturity is often associated with increased efficiency and reduced risk, two forces that will drive valuable improvements. But without a full understanding of the business objectives and how IT needs to be aligned with those full optimization is not possible. The IT Service Optimization Maturity Model will allow you to gradually improve without losing track of any important aspect.
Infrastructure Management
On-Demand Webinar

Q&A with a Capacity Management Expert, Part Two

Tue, 03/06/2018
Listen to this on-demand webinar to answer questions like: Is capacity management still relevant in the cloud? Why do large companies still struggle with capacity management? Does capacity management support or hinder DevOps?
Infrastructure Management
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Case Study

Concrete Producer Keeps Trucks Rolling by Automate-ing Event Log Monitoring

Background With more than 400 ready-mix concrete trucks on the street at any given time, St. Marys Canada Building Materials (CBM) relies heavily on real-time data transmitted from those vehicles to its fleet management software to meet customers' construction schedules. The company uses Automate, the robotic process automation (RPA) solution from Fortra, to help maintain the data flow by...
Automation
Case Study

Single Source Keeps Staff Small and Business Running Smoothly with Automate

Background Single Source is a large-volume provider of dry, refrigerated, frozen, grocery, paper, and chemical products for institutional commissaries, primarily correction institutions. The company processes and ships approximately 250 million pounds of food each year, nationwide, and they do it all with only 22 employees.  As a small business with a high volume of orders to process and ship,...
Automation
On-Demand Webinar

Use the Right Tools to Avoid the DevOps Culture Clash

By Dan Twing
Communication and automation can bring development and operations teams together if the right shared tools are used. In this webinar, Fortra joined leading industry analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) to discuss how modern automation tools allow teams to work together more effectively.
On-Demand Webinar

What is Capacity Management?

By Tom Huntington
Capacity management is the practice of ensuring you have enough IT resources to meet business demands (without overspending). But your IT environment is a lot more complex than it used to be...
Infrastructure Management
Case Study

Victaulic makes Short Work of Ad Hoc Queries with Surveyor/400

Ad hoc queries and reports are the bane of many IT departments. The need to churn out frequent, one-off, "must have" data queries for users can be a significant drain on developers' time. Users can't be blamed for the numerous impromptu requests. Customer service, continuous improvement, and the maintenance of competitive advantage demand that business people regularly look at data in innovative...
IBM i Automation