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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.
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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. /blog/automate-automate-bpa-server-903-release
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Automate VMware - Automate 8 Tour: Part 2

Wed, 01/21/2015
Text 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...
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Vityl and ITIL

Wed, 02/05/2014
TeamQuest (a Fortra company) can help organizations improve their chances at a successful ITIL implementation through the ITIL best practices listed in this article.
Automation
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Implementing a Consolidation Strategy

Mon, 02/04/2013
Improve Service quality "IT organizations should engage in a server consolidation project with three major goals: cost reduction, agility improvement and service-level improvement." Source: “Key Issues for Servers,” Gartner Inc. GOAL: IMPLEMENT A CONSOLIDATION STRATEGY Many companies are re-evaluating their IT infrastructures in light of changing business practices, economic demands, and...
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Blog

Ensure Availability at a Reasonable Cost to Meet Business SLAs

Mon, 02/04/2013
Availability is a key indicator of how successfully an IT organization is supporting the company’s business objectives. Are required service levels in terms of workload volume and response times being achieved consistently for the business units? If not, the impact can be significant: a stoppage or slowdown can, in a matter of minutes, disrupt your supply chain and result in lost transactions,...
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Discover Automate's New Capabilities for Office 365

Wed, 08/03/2011
With the eagerly anticipated release of Microsoft’s cloud-based service, Office 365, on June 28, Network Automation immediately set to work on ensuring the current Microsoft Office automation facilities in Automate were enhanced to provide its customers with equivalent automation capabilities.
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AutoMate Bridges the Gap Between Disparate Applications

Tue, 03/08/2011
Automate from Fortra provides application security, streamlined communication including sending emails and text messages to IT regarding successful or failed tasks, error handling, and flexibility and versatility via its highly coveted development interface (no programming or scripting needed).
Automation
Guide

UNIX Load Average Part 1: How It Works

In this online article Dr. Gunther digs down into the UNIX kernel to find out how load averages (the “LA Triplets”) are calculated and how appropriate they are as capacity planning metrics.
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UNIX Load Average: Reweighed

This is an unexpected Part 3 to the discussion about the UNIX load average metric answering the question of where the weight factor comes from.
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The “LA Triplets” Quiz

This is a little quiz to test your understanding of the triplet of numbers that appear in the UNIX® load average (LA) performance metric.