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The 9 Server Sprawl Questions You Need to Ask
Mon, 06/27/2016
For budding companies, server sprawl may be just one of many growing pains—a temporary inconvenience for a greater good. But if you’re struggling to complete processes on time, stalling with the auditors, and jumping from server to server whenever an error occurs, it’s time to ask the tough questions.
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Robot Best Practices
By Tom Huntington on Mon, 06/27/2016
Wondering about best practices for automating your IBM i processes with Robot systems management solutions? Take a look at this list and get off to a good start.
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The #1 Step Before Automation
Fri, 06/10/2016
An up-to-date and comprehensive runbook won't win you any awards. But when you get the green light to implement a workload automation tool, documentation is your lifeline. Unfortunately, most runbooks aren’t up to snuff.
Case Study
AAA Life Leverages Fortra Solutions for IT Efficiency
Part of the American Automobile Association (AAA) family, AAA Life Insurance Company offers a variety of competitive life insurance, annuity, and travel accident products. With over one million policies, many people rely on AAA Life to help provide protection for their loved ones.
As Senior Systems Engineer at AAA Life, Randy Wittner is in charge of their IBM i environment, overseeing two S824...
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Fortra Automates Report Delivery at Ullico
Reports are an essential part of all businesses. Among other purposes, they help organizations to better manage and control their operations. But what if managing those documents placed an unnecessary burden on the enterprise? Paper-based reports do exactly that.
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Focal Point Saves Time with Automate Schedule
"Automate Schedule will send you a notification if something delays or fails, and then you can react to it.”
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Focal Point Transitions to Cross-Platform Automation with Fortra
Focal Point has experienced great success since they began using Fortra enterprise job scheduling solutions. One huge ROI benefit is that Focal Point’s IT team saves time—they no longer have to monitor the job processes constantly.
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Improving Informatica ETL Processing
"Now Automate Schedule manages the schedule and we save four to five hours a day and get everything finished on time.”
Case Study
Prime Therapeutics Trusts Robot Save With 7.5 Million Lives
One of the most important IT functions in any business is having a reliable backup and recovery system in place. That’s where Robot Save plays a vital role at Prime Therapeutics.
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Robot and EnterpriseOne Automate 2,000+ Operations at Cascade Corporation
Cascade Corporation chose the iSeries hardware platform because of its reputation for reliability. With a solid foundation in place, they added a suite of compatible automation software and have maintained operations as an automated shop for the past several years.
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Fundtech Improves Service, Expands Business, and Lowers IT Overhead
“I think it’s important to share information about the good products behind our services. Our customers know that Automate Schedule is protecting their file transfers.”
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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."
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Automate Schedule Brings Real-Time Operations Reactivity to Energy Solutions
"Automate Schedule is a critical piece because transactions with our utilities are done essentially on a real-time basis."
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Bayer in Italia Simplifies IT Management with Automate Schedule
“Using Automate Schedule's checking and monitoring capabilities, we’ve increased the level of control we have over job flow and scheduling.”
Blog
Email Integration and Automation in Customer Relationship Management
Wed, 04/18/2012
Automate handled the repetitive work that otherwise bogged down our manager and the entire sales department by automating the process of inbound email inquiries.
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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).
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Automate Version 8 - Extending Automation into the Cloud and Virtualization
Wed, 12/01/2010
We are pleased to announce the latest release of the Automate family of products - Version 8.0. This upgrade includes Automate Professional, Automate Premium, Automate BPA Server Standard and Automate BPA Server Enterprise.
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mySQL and the SQL Query Action
Mon, 11/20/2006
Automate can easily interact with a mySQL server and its associated databases through the SQL Query and SQL Stored Procedure actions. The document explains how to setup a mySQL data source connection through Automate that can be used to run queries against a mySQL database.