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Selling the Capacity Upgrade
Company Overview: This financial technology provider delivers banking and payments technologies to more than 8,000 financial services firms and businesses worldwide.
Business Value of Vityl Capacity Management (formerly TeamQuest): The company’s capacity planners use carefully chosen workload definitions in conjunction with predictive modeling to show their management the business rationale for...
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Legislature Uses Capacity Planning Software to Optimize IT Services
Business Value of Vityl Capacity Management (formerly TeamQuest): This legislative body uses Vityl Capacity Management to find and identify performance problems, plan for the future, assist in time management and be more proactive.
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SunGard Public Sector Uses Halcyon's Operation Center
Halcyon’s Operations Center Suite enabled SunGard Public Sector to use an intuitive tool to automatically handle the vast majority of alerts arising from the monitoring solution, with business-critical alerts sent to a technician trained to immediately deal with systems issues.
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The BGL Group Monitors Across IBM i and AIX with Halcyon Network Server Suite
BGL Group is one of the UK’s largest personal lines insurance groups. It has over 2,400 employees located at its headquarters in Peterborough and at contact centers in Coventry and Sunderland. The organization serves more than 4.6 million customers through a number of market-leading brands.
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Remote Monitoring Using Operations Center Suite and Network Server Suite
The City of Corpus Christi uses Halcyon’s Network Server Suite, a fully integrated solution that manages all network servers and devices from a single console, and Halcyon’s Operations Center Suite, an enterprise console for IBM i centralized monitoring and management, to streamline their department.
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Data Store Migration Utility
Fri, 03/13/2015
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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Automate BPA Server Cross-Platform Automation
Mon, 03/02/2015
Introduction
Increasing numbers of businesses require solutions to help unify their disparate computing platforms to better improve productivity. The upcoming BPA Server version 7.1.0.0 upgrade will enable organizations to create these kinds of solutions by including support for direct execution across multi-platforms. This new functionality broadens the spectrum of Automate BPA Server by...
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Automate 10 Public Beta Now Available for Download
Sat, 02/28/2015
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
Sat, 02/28/2015
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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New Updates for Automate 10 Now Available
Sat, 02/28/2015
Version 10.4 is now available and addresses various issues that were introduced in previous versions. It has more than 150 corrections. This release also includes the Dataset to CSV activity which adds the ability to output a dataset to a .csv file. You can find a complete list of the fixes below.
This is a recommended update for all of our...
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New Updates for Automate 9 Now Available
Fri, 02/27/2015
Version 9.0.5 is now available and address various issues that were introduced in previous versions.
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Reach for the Cloud with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Automation - AutoMate 8 Tour -Part 1
Sun, 02/08/2015
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The Cloud
We all have heard of the cloud and what it's going to enable us to do. We have even heard about certain tools that will enable effective management of cloud services in real-time. The question we at...
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Automate & Automate BPA Server 9.0.3 Release
Sun, 02/08/2015
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.
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Automate VMware - Automate 8 Tour: Part 2
Wed, 01/21/2015
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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
Focal Point Transitions to Cross-Platform Automation with Fortra
Focal Point has experienced great success since they began using Fortra enterprise job scheduling solutions. One huge ROI benefit is that Focal Point’s IT team saves time—they no longer have to monitor the job processes constantly.
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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.”