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4 Impactful Tasks to Automate with Desktop Automation Tools
Tue, 09/17/2019
Using desktop automation tools let you work one-on-one with software bots to help you solve problems and simplify daily tasks within your environment. Learn the top four tasks to automate with desktop automation.
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Outlook Automation: How to Automate Emails in Outlook
By Pat Cameron on Fri, 08/23/2019
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One of the most common email automation tasks in Outlook is processing attachments from incoming email. More specifically, downloading and processing invoices is one of the...
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HelpSystems (now Fortra) Makes Debut Appearance as Major Contender in Everest Group RPA Products PEAK Matrix™ for 2019
Fri, 08/23/2019
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Mobile NOW for Robot Network
By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 08/21/2019
The web interface for Robot Network is a browser-based tool that uses Fortra Insite to help you access system performance data for your network of IBM i systems from any laptop, tablet, or smartphone. You can also work in the Robot Network Status Center to see and respond to messages and other events that have been escalated to the Robot Network host system.
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Mobile Dashboards for IBM i Monitoring
By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 08/07/2019
Robot Console leverages the power of Fortra' dashboards containing browser access! Mobile-friendly dashboards allow you to combine key message summary and resource status data into a single, intuitive view. Read on to learn more.
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Getting Started with Website Automation
Wed, 07/24/2019
Set up a website automation task using Automate, robotic process automation (RPA) software from Fortra. Download a free trial of automation software and set up a web automation task today.
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Get More Control Over Alerts with Intermapper 6.4
Wed, 07/17/2019
Discover the latest features to enhance your network monitoring and network mapping experience with Intermapper’s 6.4 release.
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How to Do CRM Automation
Mon, 07/15/2019
Use robotic process automation (RPA) to easily integrate your CRM system with your most critical business applications to streamline your business processes. Learn how with Automate.
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Capacity Planning and the Culture of Proof
By Timothy Prickett Morgan on Fri, 05/31/2019
Capacity planning is one of the most important things that a company will do, and yet there are still many companies that do it on the back of the envelope. Read this article and learn how to do it right.
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Take Your Work to Warp Drive!
By Chuck Losinski on Thu, 05/16/2019
If your mission is work management, IBM i is the best starship in the fleet. Routing certain types of work into subsystems and memory pools, separating dissimilar work, and giving jobs the appropriate CPU time—this is work management the Windows world can only dream about.
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HelpSystems (now Fortra) Rebrands Automate BPA Server to Automate Plus
Wed, 05/01/2019
Fortra is excited to announce that Automate BPA Server, our powerful enterprise business process automation (BPA) software, is now Automate Plus. All the features you know and love in Automate BPA Server are still available but Automate Plus aims to provide a more robust set of automation tools.
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Two-Way Message Response with Robot
By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 05/01/2019
You have the afternoon off—but not the responsibility of monitoring your system for issues. This includes responding to application and system messages as they occur on your production IBM i jobs. You don’t want to carry your laptop around just in case you need to VPN back to answer a message that is waiting on your month-end process. What option do you have?
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Automate Named One of Best RPA Solutions
Wed, 04/10/2019
Automate was named among the Best Robotic Process Automation Software in the G2 Grid® for Robotic Process Automation (RPA) from G2.
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Top 5 Capacity Planning Mistakes on IBM i
By Tom Huntington on Tue, 02/12/2019
When it comes to capacity planning for IBM i, skip the shortcuts. This article shares expert recommendations on how to avoid the most common capacity planning mistakes.
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Comparing Different Methods for Calculating Health and Risk
By Per Bauer on Fri, 02/08/2019
How do you calculate IT health and risk?
There are different methods you can use, depending on your needs.
The most common methods for determining IT infrastructure health are:
Threshold comparison
Enhanced threshold comparison
Event detection
Variation from normal
Allocation comparison
Queuing theory for health
On the other hand, the most common methods for calculating IT...
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A Roadmap for Consolidation
Mon, 02/04/2019
There are five key steps when planning a consolidation strategy. Considerations for each step are outlined below.
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A Beginner’s Guide to IBM i System Administration
Fri, 07/13/2018
Despite popular opinion, IBM i is not bulletproof and cannot completely manage itself. But the operating system does make it easier for administrators.
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With Public Cloud OS Instances Growing, Security Challenges Grow, Too
Tue, 03/13/2018
“Some cloud vendors tout that systems deployed within their framework require little or no administration: You create an image with the software and applications that you want it to provide services for, spin it up in a management console, and Voila! you have an entirely new system online; with minimal cost, no hassle, little work. However, even...