On-Demand Webinar
Security and Audit Report Sign-Off—Made Easy
Are your security and audit reports ready if the auditors come calling? Watch this webinar to learn how to automate your approval processes so that you’re always ready for the auditors.
On-Demand Webinar
Speed Up Your Manufacturing and Distribution with Paperless Processes
Your ERP system —whether it’s JDE World, Enterprise One, Infor, Epicor, Microsoft Dynamics, VAI, or anything else—is essential to maintaining your company’s key business information and processes. But you’re constantly generating and receiving paper and electronic documents, too, and it’s hard to keep everything straight. So, you wind up chasing documents and data around—and keeping your customers...
Article
Automate Roadmap: Key Features for Building an Enterprise Automation Strategy
Thu, 12/08/2016
An effective automation strategy requires a comprehensive platform that integrates business processes across the entire enterprise. Learn how Automate’s enterprise-class solutions can help you streamline operations and make better and faster strategic decisions.
Case Study
Major Steel Supplier Strikes Gold with a Document and Forms Management Solution and Superb Support
Paperwork and steel go hand-in-hand for one major steel supplier (MSS) with locations across North America. Every piece of steel they ship includes paperwork assuring customers of the quality of the product they’re receiving.
But MSS had a problem: their processes were keeping them from meeting customer expectations. It was time to make a change.
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Blog
Three Layers of AP Automation—And How to Approach Them
Thu, 08/25/2016
Accounts payable departments run on documents—but documents don’t need to slow AP down. Read the article to learn more about AP automation.
Article
How Network Monitoring and Document Management Work Together
By Kevin Jackson on Wed, 08/24/2016
Maximize productivity and amp up your security by using network monitoring and document management solutions together.
Blog
Concerns in Creating a Paperless Office
Thu, 08/18/2016
Identified as a key trend of the future and a way to improve business efficiency, the idea of a “paperless” office (or more realistically, a “less paper” office) is spreading relatively slowly. Why is that?
Blog
Avoiding Security Threats with Digital Document Management
By Greg J. Schmidt on Wed, 07/27/2016
Paper-based document management leaves your critical business information susceptible to damage, loss, theft, or human error. Learn how digital document management keeps your data secure.
Blog
Three Factors for Growth with Organizational Technology
Wed, 07/27/2016
Learn the three key factors involved with an organization's technological growth and how to overcome the challenges of implementing new technology amidst workplace resistance.
Blog
3 Ways Digital Document Management Helps Financial Institutions
Wed, 07/27/2016
Secure document management is an important consideration for any business, but for financial instutions in particular, keeping data secure is critical to keeping business running smoothly and clients happy. Learn how digital document management gives financial instutions the competitive edge they need to succeed.
Blog
Document Automation: The Best of Both Worlds
Wed, 07/27/2016
Using automation software with your existing document management solution can further streamline complicated or redundant business processes and maximize productivity across your company.
Blog
Moving Documents Between IFS Folders
Mon, 06/27/2016
Because Webdocs maintains a separation between its internal file structure and the operating system’s, you can organize documents for your users in one manner, while organizing them on the IFS in an entirely different manner. This article takes you through the steps of reorganizing the folder structure on the IFS.
Article
Considerations For Securing NFS Shares For Use With Webdocs iSeries
Mon, 06/27/2016
NFS has long had a tentative relationship to security. As with its cousin, CIFS/SMB (more commonly know as Windows File Sharing), security was not an area of primary focus. The elements of security that exist are significant, but they are nontrivial to implement, particularly across operating systems and with third-party applications.
Article
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.
Article
Is the i Ready for the Three Vs of Big Data?
By Tom Huntington on Mon, 06/27/2016
The three Vs of big data are volume, velocity, and variety, but in order derive value from big data, IT departments need tools to store massive amounts of data (volume) and make sure it is always available for quick analysis (velocity).
Blog
Tips and Advice for Going Paperless in the Office
Mon, 06/27/2016
The dream of taking your company into a completely paperless world may feel daunting. But there are little things that can assist you in taking that big step toward your paperless goals, all while saving your business money and helping the environment. So where do you start?
Case Study
Fortra Helps Tara Materials Focus on Canvas, Not Paper
Canvas is the foundation of many great works of art. For many years, Tara Materials has been a major supplier of canvas. Its leading product line, Fredrix, was first manufactured in 1868. Today, Tara has two factories in Tijuana, California and Lawrenceville, Georgia that assemble more than three million pieces of stretched canvas and make about half a million yards of coated canvas each year.
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Article
Automate 7 Task Builder in Depth
Wed, 04/06/2016
Automate 7 Task Builder now supports multiple tasks within one Task Builder instance. While this has the obvious benefit of increasing the ease of use of editing and creating multiple tasks in one place we've taken it a step further and implemented a feature that many have asked for:
Article
How to Automate Backup & Restore Processes in Automate
Sun, 02/28/2016
In this article we will take a look at the importance of backing up Automate data in order to prevent data loss. We will also learn how to go about backing up remote Automate installations, performing automated backups and achieving data recovery in case data loss occurs despite the best of our efforts and precautions.