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Compliance Tasks Made Easy with RPA: Control Your Data for Seamless Compliance

Data security is a top concern for modern businesses. And many organizations have industry standards, like HIPAA or government regulations, like GDPR, they must stay compliant with. Keeping your data secure and your processes compliant can seem complicated, especially if you’re using many different types of business applications in your daily tasks. That’s why it’s important to choose tools with built-in security.
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If It Has Moving Parts, Someday It's Going to Fail.

Check out IBM's new READ INTENSIVE SSDs. This is a note to highlight some of the pros and cons - and dig a little deeper into one of the cons - of IBM's recently announced new class of solid state disk drives, "read intensive" (RI) SSDs. The new RI-SSD comes in one flavor, a 1.86 TB drive. The new concept to wrap your head around is that the drive will "wear out" if you write too much over the...
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Your IFS Is Probably a Treasure Trove of Unsecured Data

Consider the type of information contained in the PDFs in your directories and spooled files in your output queues. Aside from taking up disk space and consuming time during a backup, what's the issue with leaving these reports on the system? The issue is the contents of those reports, along with who has access to them.
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How to Download an ODBC Driver

Performance Navigator® requires an ODBC connection to connect to your IBM i system, but it does not come with your PC’s operating system. IBM has a downloadable they’ve titled Access Client Solutions, which we recommend our customers use to get that ODBC connection.
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FAQs about Performance Navigator

Will this product hurt the performance of my IBM i®? You will not even notice that the product is working. The data gathering software is already part of the OS. I currently have a subscription to IBM's PM for Power service. How is Performance Navigator compared to PM? Glad you asked... Performance Navigator uses exactly the same input as PM for Power, Collection Services. Performance Navigator...
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Financial Services Firm Credits Automate with Saving 400 Hours per Month

Background Providing backend financial services to hundreds of credit unions is an IT-intensive job. For Florida-based PSCU Financial Services, it requires hours of repetitive tasks ranging from monitoring client websites for availability assurance to migrating files from a variety of sources to a central location for client retrieval. Managers in several PSCU departments have turned to Automate...
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Baptist Health South Florida Streamlines Claims Processing with Automate

Background Baptist Health is South Florida's largest not-for-profit health care organization, encompassing seven major medical facilities and a number of outpatient centers. They utilize a health information system provided by Siemens called INVISION, and a claims management system from NDC Health called ePREMIS. The Challenge Effective claims processing and management is the name of the game...