Guide
Is Cron Limiting Your Automation Strategy?
Skybot Scheduler provides many advantages, including event-driven scheudling and cross-platform capabilities, over UNIX cron job scheduling.
Guide
Workload Automation in the Modern Enterprise
Because there is still a need for recurring application processes to perform activities, there is an increased need for critical back-end computing via workload automation software.
Guide
Who's Minding the Store? When Central Monitoring and Automatic Notification are Essential
Central monitoring and automatic notification are the keys to successful workload automation.
Guide
Enterprise Scheduling ROI
Consolidating scheduling across multiple applications into an enterprise job scheduler increases productivity and helps the bottom line.
Guide
How to Automate Enterprise Scheduling
Following a specific plan for automating your enterprise schedule ensures greater success for your implementation.
Article
Getting Started with Your Automate Schedule Free Trial
Mon, 03/20/2017
Are you ready to test Automate Schedule in your environment? Here's what you need to know to get the most out of your free trial.
Article
Best Reasons for a Web Browser User Interface
Mon, 03/20/2017
Ultimately, a web-based product allows you to produce software faster and get new features and versions out to customers at a better pace.
Guide
Beyond Cron: How to Know When You've Outgrown Cron Scheduling
Cron is a useful tool, but for today’s large, interconnected enterprises it has its limitations. Modern enterprise job scheduling tools offer superior functionality, ease of use, and a more modern, graphical user interface.
Guide
Making the Data Integration Process More Efficient
It is important to understand the challenges that many companies face with data integration so that the appropriate tool can be used to address them.
Article
Managing Server and Network Outages with an Enterprise Job Scheduler
Wed, 03/15/2017
Dealing with planned or unplanned downtime can be laborious and detrimental to your business. Find out which features your enterprise scheduler needs to efficiently deal with IT outages.
Article
Scheduling for the People (Not for Computers)
Wed, 03/15/2017
If you understand the capabilities of different job schedulers, you’ll know the extent to which your company would benefit from a more advanced enterprise job scheduler.
Article
The IT Job Scheduling Pyramid: Building Blocks of Job Scheduling
Wed, 03/15/2017
Automate Schedule helps automate job scheduling at all levels of complexity. To prioritize scheduling tasks, visualize an inverted pyramid.
Guide
Why You Need an Enterprise Scheduler
The best way to resolve the issue of multiple schedulers is with an enterprise scheduler that can build cross-platform job streams to handle the different applications.
Article
Workload Automation: A Key Tool in a Fast Paced Tech Landscape
By Dan Twing on Tue, 03/14/2017
Workload automation is evolving to allow IT to move faster and integrate new technologies. What innovations would you like to see?
Article
Why Everyone Has a Crush on Linux—even IBM
Tue, 03/14/2017
Linux helps enterprises make IT more scalable and flexible. Supplemented by dedicated, Linux-compatible tools for job scheduling—like Automate Schedule—put organizations in a prime position to streamline operations to meet changing requirements.
Article
Orchestrating a Symphony of Application Automation
By Steve Brasen on Tue, 03/14/2017
An enterprise job scheduler is key to orchestrating disparate applications and complex business processes.
Guide
Using the Cloud for Mission-Critical Systems
In order to make cloud computing highly available and easy to use, there has to be an infrastructure in the background, like enterprise scheduling software.
Article
Secret Capabilities of Robot Schedule Revealed
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 01/31/2017
We recently surveyed our Robot Schedule technical support group for “ah ha!” moments that they’ve helped customers realize over the past few years. These tips from our tech gurus have helped customers automate jobs that needed to check a data area before running, track non-Robot jobs for reporting purposes, and check the status of a file before running a job.
Article
Customer Spotlight: Heartland Financial USA, Inc.
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 01/17/2017
The operations team was excited to share how Robot job scheduling and monitoring software has helped them manage their processing needs across platforms from their IBM i.
Article
B2B and B2C Data Exchange with an Enterprise Job Scheduler
Fri, 11/11/2016
Modern business involves constant transfers of data between your company and its customers and partners. Make sure you have the right tool for the job.