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Case Study
Case Study

City Government IT Department and Halcyon

When the City Government IT department restructured, it was left without extensive IBM i knowledge for several key software applications. Without this expertise, overnight backups did not work correctly and the system was not being monitored accurately. A solution to the problem needed to be found—and fast.
Monitoring
Case Study
Case Study

Halcyon Brings Mobility and Time-Savings to the IT Team at Bras N Things

For Bras N Things, a crucial component of successfully integrating their IBM i-based ERP and point-of-sale (POS) systems relied on a systems monitoring and notification solution for IBM i that could reduce systems administrator workloads and, most importantly, monitor every aspect of the server then broadcast alerts in case of systems error.
Monitoring
Case Study
Case Study

Avon Finds Stability with Systems Operations Suite

With customers and independent sales representatives scattered across virtually every corner of Australia and New Zealand, efficient systems operations and business continuity is fundamental to Avon’s success.
Monitoring
Case Study
Case Study

Admiral Group Utilizes Systems Operations Suite and More

The increasingly complex IT infrastructure at Admiral Group placed additional pressure on the operations team. So, Admiral installed a systems management solution to ease the burden while providing effective monitoring across a multi-platform server environment.
Monitoring
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Case Study
Case Study

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.
Monitoring
Article
Article

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.
Automation
Article
Article

Using Automate to Perform Desktop Interactions

Sat, 02/28/2015
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.
Automation
Article
Article

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.
Automation
Article
Article

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,...
Automation
Article
Article

Using Automate to Facilitate SQL Bulk Inserts

Fri, 02/27/2015
Image 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...
Automation
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Article
Article

OCR & Active Directory Automation

Thu, 02/26/2015
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.
Automation
Article
Article

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. /blog/automate-automate-bpa-server-903-release
Automation
Article
Article

Automate VMware - Automate 8 Tour: Part 2

Wed, 01/21/2015
Text   Image 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...
Automation
Case Study
Case Study

Service Corp Company Benefits From Automation

"Automate Schedule's audit log is crucial to us because one of our SOX controls is to validate that we keep schedule logs for a certain period of time. An audit log is critical for a scheduler."
Automation