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.
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.
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.
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.
Press Release
HelpSystems (now Fortra) Fills Encryption Gap With Linoma Buy
Despite all the IBM i security vendors that Fortra has bought over the years--and there have been at least five of them--the company has lacked one key security capability valued by enterprises: encryption.
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
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
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."