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.
Blog
10 Ways Paperless Forms Management Can Streamline Data Capture Processes
By Richard Schoen on Thu, 01/05/2017
Need to streamline data capture? Paperless forms can help! Learn how.
On-Demand Webinar
Six Essential Aspects of IBM i Resource Monitoring
By Mel Beckman
Watch this webinar to learn which system resources on IBM i are the most valuable for predicting performance and diagnosing problems.
On-Demand Webinar
Stop Feeding IBM i Performance Hogs
Runaway jobs and processes like the many-headed QZDASOINIT beast are infamous for gobbling up resources. Watch this webinar and learn how to round up runaway database server jobs and more to protect system performance.
On-Demand Webinar
An Introduction to the IBM i Performance Data Investigator
By Dawn May
In this one-hour recording, IBMer Dawn May introduces the major features of the Performance Data Investigator (PDI) and reviews the latest enhancements.
On-Demand Webinar
Real-Time Disk Monitoring with Robot Monitor
Don’t let the disk space disappearing act destroy your system performance or your productivity. Start seeing through the sleight of hand and get instant visibility into disk space depletion with Robot Monitor.
On-Demand Webinar
IBM i Monitoring by the Dashboard Light
Your network operations center is full of monitors, and each monitor might have multiple screens where technicians search to find system and application information. It’s time to get a single, graphical view to visualize performance and processes. Watch this webinar to discover Robot Monitor dashboards.
On-Demand Webinar
SQL-Based Monitoring with Robot Monitor
Part of what makes Robot Monitor so powerful is the ability to perform custom monitoring across system and application values via user-defined SQL statements. Get the real-time visibility and historical data you need to keep performance issues under control.
On-Demand Webinar
5 Reasons to Stop Filling Out Forms by Hand
From filling out paper forms to filing them, manual forms management is riddled with inefficiencies. Watch this webinar to learn how you can save time and speed up your forms management with web-based forms.
On-Demand Webinar
Automate Data Collection and Streamline Workflow with Webforms
By Bill Whalen
View this on-demand webinar and learn how to reduce paper, streamline data collection and eliminate redundant data entry by using Webforms to web-enable HR, expense, time-off request and other paper-based forms.