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Fortra Software Gives AAA Carolinas a Life

With more than 800 employees, AAA Carolinas is one of the largest affiliates in the AAA organization. The company is headquartered in Charlotte but has 34 offices in the Carolinas and works with independent insurance carriers and agents in both states. AAA Carolinas’ insurance division’s document management process was slow, inefficient and costly. Agency underwriters and administrative staff manually processed, routed and filed hundreds of claims, reports, applications and files daily.
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Data Store Migration Utility

Data migration is the process of transferring data from one hardware or software configuration to another. It can be a standard yet crucial element of IT operations, allowing organizations the ability to maintain the integrity of important data while moving forward to face constantly changing technologies. The downside being that data migration is often times consuming and causes major disruptions as a result of downtime or application performance problems.
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Using Automate to Perform Desktop Interactions

Automate includes numerous interactivity related actions that can impersonate any mouse or keyboard activity as well as virtually any form of desktop interactions performed manually. This article will describe some of the more commonly used Interactivity actions and how they are used to navigate and interact with interfaces as well as supply possible solutions to some frequent interactivity and navigation related problems.
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Automate 10 Public Beta Now Available for Download

Dear Automate Users, Since 2004, Network Automation has been innovating the automation software space. In the process we created a new category called Business Process Automation (BPA). This important category integrates the best of IT Process Automation and Application Integration into a single platform helping to bring IT and business users into closer alignment. Now today, after nearly two...
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Automate BPA Server Agent Deployment

Automate BPA Server works hand-in-hand with Automate Agents in order to execute workflows and perform tasks across a network environment. The Agent's main purpose is to perform triggering, workflow, and task execution, either locally or on a remote machine.
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Using Automate to Facilitate SQL Bulk Inserts

Can Automate interact with databases? Yes. Can Automate interact/manipulate files? Yes. With these two questions answered, the inevitable question is next: If Automate can do both of these things, can it also load the content of files into SQL? This question comes up quite often during our consultation calls, so let’s skip the phone call and...
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OCR & Active Directory Automation

In this blog post we will go over how to integrate OCR automation with Active Directory automation for a new hire’s application. We will explore reading a name, address and telephone number from an application image, and creating an Active Directory User with AutoMate’s OCR, Active Directory, Loop and Flow Control Actions.
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Automate & Automate BPA Server 9.0.3 Release

Version 9.0.3 of both Automate and Automate BPA Server has just been released. Version 9.0.3 addresses 44 issues, including various action enhancements and issues that were introduced in 9.0.0, 9.0.1, and 9.0.2. With each release, however minor, we want to continue our efforts to deliver a more stable software to our customers. /blog/automate-automate-bpa-server-903-release
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Automate VMware - Automate 8 Tour: Part 2

Text The Benefits of Virtualization Virtualization is one of the hottest trends in I.T. today. Virtualization has valuable applications for controlling hardware costs, minimizing downtime, and many quality...
Case Study

Alon USA Locks Down the IFS with Powertech Antivirus for IBM i

Like many IBM shops, Alon USA found comfort in the seeming immunity of IBM i to viruses. All PCs in the company were running anti-virus software but, having operated for more than a decade without incident, Alon USA’s IT director saw no need for protective measures on IBM i. Sound familiar?
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AAA Life Leverages Robot for IT Efficiency

As Senior Systems Engineer, Randy Wittner has over 25 years of experience on IBM i, and AAA Life was not the first place he encountered Robot. “I’ve worked at many companies that have had Robot Schedule, so good market share,” said Wittner. “It’s very reliable, easy to upgrade. It automates a lot for us in our process.”
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Getting Started with IBM i Security

From beginner basics to advanced tactics, this white paper provides the background and instruction you need to restore your IBM i security back to its former glory.