Guide
Better Business Intelligence: Sequel Dashboards Lookbook
In this lookbook, we will walk you through how Sequel harnesses business intelligence (BI) dashboards to improve visibility into your data.
Guide
Penetration Testing Toolkit
Safeguard your infrastructure and data
With today’s ever-increasing and constantly-shifting threat landscape, organizations must do everything they can to ensure the security of its cyber assets, including penetration testing. Based on our years of experience helping organizations manage security risks across the enterprise, we’ve compiled a collection of penetration testing...
Guide
5th Annual IBM AIX Community Survey Findings
The AIX Community Survey, now in its fifth consecutive year, goes in-depth with IT teams to gain a unique perspective into how this platform is being used today and how teams envision using it in the future. Over the years, the respondents of the survey have expanded to include a variety of industries, geographies, and titles within IT.
More than 100 IT professionals in North America, EMEA, and APAC participated in this year’s survey, and this input enables all of us to understand the role of AIX with new clarity.
Guide
2021 Pen Testing Survey Report
Cyber attacks have become so common place, we're no longer surprised to see a massive breach hit the headlines. With this threat constantly looming, organizations should regularly be asking themselves, "how secure are we?" Penetration tests help to answer this question, uncovering and exploiting security threats to determine how much of a risk they pose.
The 2021 Pen Testing...
Guide
How to Do IT Cost Optimization
Our years of experience shows that organizations waste 30% of their hybrid IT spend, on average. This article identifies the five key components of a cost optimization strategy and how to be successful with each of them.
Guide
Data Access in a Big Data World: How to Access Big Data so You Can Use It
With organizations collecting more customer, transactional, and relational data than ever before, data volumes are beginning to expand past their system’s processing capacity. But big data doesn’t have to be alarming. Go beyond the hype and conquer your IBM i data.
Case Study
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...
Case Study
Concrete Producer Keeps Trucks Rolling by Automate-ing Event Log Monitoring
Background
With more than 400 ready-mix concrete trucks on the street at any given time, St. Marys Canada Building Materials (CBM) relies heavily on real-time data transmitted from those vehicles to its fleet management software to meet customers' construction schedules. The company uses Automate, the robotic process automation (RPA) solution from Fortra, to help maintain the...
Case Study
Single Source Keeps Staff Small and Business Running Smoothly with Automate
Background
Single Source is a large-volume provider of dry, refrigerated, frozen, grocery, paper, and chemical products for institutional commissaries, primarily correction institutions. The company processes and ships approximately 250 million pounds of food each year, nationwide, and they do it all with only 22 employees.
As a small business with a high volume of orders to...
Guide
Which IBM i Data Access Tool is Right for You?
Data access software is essential today to both technical users—like your IT team—and business users—like everyone else.
Query/400 has long been the go-to for IBM i data access. It’s been around for over 30 years, but the tool hasn’t advanced with changes in technology. That’s where modern data access tools like Sequel have the advantage.
But how do you really know which data...
Guide
Ensuring IT Efficiencies Through Enterprise Process Automation
To effectively and rapidly enable and manage complex business processes, organizations must adopt a unified solution that directly integrates process automation with job scheduling.
Guide
A Clean Slate for Enterprise Scheduling
Enterprise scheduling tools have many advantages over the older technology of client-server scheduling tools.
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.
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.
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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.
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Enterprise Scheduling ROI
Consolidating scheduling across multiple applications into an enterprise job scheduler increases productivity and helps the bottom line.