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Robot and Medical Mutual: A Prescription for Success

Medical Mutual has capitalized on its expertise and sound management to grow into a $1 billion company. Underpinning that success is its sound IT infrastructure, automated by Robot products from Fortra.

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Fortra Delivers IT Automation and Exceeds Service Expectations for National Auto Insurer MAPFRE

While MAPFRE is very happy with the Robot products they've implemented, it's the customer service that really puts Fortra ahead of the competition.

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Robot Helps Knoll Design for a Better World

With an IT staff of just 34 to support a company with worldwide revenues of about $780 million, Knoll likes to run lean. So, they rely heavily on two of the Robot products: Robot SCHEDULE and Robot REPORTS.

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Robot Stocks Staples with Automation Supplies

When they got burned for not monitoring closely enough, the IT team at Staples, Inc. turned to Robot to automate message responses and expose problems early.

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TransAction Solutions Reduces Risk Through Automation

For TransAction Solutions, Robot provides greater visibility and security, cuts down message volume, and reduces reliance on error-prone manual processes.

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Automation Allows WEHCO Media to Keep Pace in a Fast-Moving Industry

When the IT director at WEHCO Media needed to eliminate manual processes, minimize the daunting six-month training curve for new operators, and reduce the recurring errors in their job schedule, she chose the Robot systems management solution.

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Automation Brings a Season of Changes to White-Rodgers

When the IT department at White-Rodgers was challenged with meeting a major cost reduction goal, they decided to eliminate staffing during nights and weekends by automating IBM i operations.

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Robot Space Tracks Data Growth Across 10 Banks for Heartland Financial

With a goal of doubling in size every five to seven years, Heartland Financial needed a tool to help them track, manage, and control their disk growth as their business expands.

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Cone Drive Gears Up for Automation with Robot

To get to lights-out with Infor ERP XA, Cone Drive used Robot Replay, which captures screen images and allows them to manipulate the inputs and the field-level data to create job scripts easily.

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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.”

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 Part 2: Not Your Average Average

This is the second in a two part-series where we explore the use of UNIX load averages in performance analysis and capacity planning.

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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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How to Get Unbelievable Load Test Results

This article is about delusions that arise from incorrect interpretation of load test measurements.

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Capacity Calculations: Handle with Care

This paper discusses avoiding calculation results that are more precise than is justified by precision of corresponding measurement input data.

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Evaluating Scalability Parameters: A Fitting End

This is the final online article concerning the concept of application scalability. Here, you will learn how to determine value of the parameters that control scalability.

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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.

Robot and Medical Mutual: A Prescription for Success

Fortra Delivers IT Automation and Exceeds Service Expectations for National Auto Insurer MAPFRE

Robot Helps Knoll Design for a Better World

Robot Stocks Staples with Automation Supplies

TransAction Solutions Reduces Risk Through Automation

Automation Allows WEHCO Media to Keep Pace in a Fast-Moving Industry

Automation Brings a Season of Changes to White-Rodgers

Robot Space Tracks Data Growth Across 10 Banks for Heartland Financial

Cone Drive Gears Up for Automation with Robot

Fundtech Improves Service, Expands Business, and Lowers IT Overhead

Service Corp Company Benefits From Automation

Automate Schedule Brings Real-Time Operations Reactivity to Energy Solutions

Bayer in Italia Simplifies IT Management with Automate Schedule

UNIX Load Average Part 1: How It Works

UNIX Load Average Part 2: Not Your Average Average

UNIX Load Average: Reweighed

How to Get Unbelievable Load Test Results

Capacity Calculations: Handle with Care

Evaluating Scalability Parameters: A Fitting End

The “LA Triplets” Quiz

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