Ad hoc queries and reports are the bane of many IT departments. The need to churn out frequent, one-off, "must have" data queries for users can be a significant drain on developers' time. Users can't be blamed for the numerous impromptu requests. Customer service, continuous improvement, and the maintenance of competitive advantage demand that business people regularly look at data in innovative...

Since Heartland Financial went to Robot, they've found it easy to add more jobs and are even using Robot for some Windows exclusive processes.

After seeing the amount of manual processes that still remained, and finding that jobs were terminating without notification, an iSeries administrator at Alpine Bank recommended Robot systems management software.