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Robotic Process Automation Case Study: Automate Integrates Critical Applications for a Major Medical Center

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has the challenge of staffing and managing thousands of nurses busy delivering top-notch patient care. To manage this complexity, MD Anderson relies on three critical applications: a human resource system by PeopleSoft, a time and attendance system by Kronos, and a staffing system by Per-Se's ANSOS One-Staff. These three applications (with their...
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Automate Saves Vestcom 200 Hours per Week with GUI Automation

Getting sophisticated signage to the store shelf requires a lot of digital heavy lifting. At Vestcom International, raw product data sent by major retailers and brand manufacturers must be scrubbed, organized, converted to PostScript files, and sorted by variables such as tag type and store location before being transmitted to 10 company production facilities around the country for printing and...
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Automate Eliminates SYSPRO Night Duty for Lab Products Manufacturer

The IT team at World Precision Instruments (WPI) wanted to take back the night on behalf of employees responsible for running reports from the company's SYSPRO ERP system. Instead of requiring employees to manually trigger and generate reports from home at specific hours in a specific sequence on a nightly basis, the company wanted to automate the entire process without investing in custom...
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Financial Group Streamlines Loan Origination with Robotic Process Automation

Aldergrove Financial Group is a community-based credit union in Frazier Valley, British Columbia that provides personal and business banking solutions to its 20,000 members. Formed in 1954 under the original name of Otter Farmers’ Institute Credit Union, Aldergrove has since merged with the Matsqui Credit Union and expanded to five branches. Aldergrove is committed to providing personal...
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Automate Eliminates Custom Visual Basic Code for InfraSource

InfraSource Services is a fully integrated company providing construction services in gas and electric transmission, gas and electric distribution, telecommunications, and water and wastewater systems. The organization consists of several distinct operating companies strategically located throughout the United States. InfraSource is a single source provider of infrastructure construction services...
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Automating Crystal Reports with Automate Saves 20 Hours per Week for Appliance Distributor

For wholesale appliance distributor Echelon Home Products, generating and distributing reports for four different business divisions used to require at least 20 hours of weekly Crystal Reports work as well as wreak havoc among employees every Monday because of an all-day report-related network slowdown. That changed in 2008 when Echelon plugged into Automate , the robotic process automation ( RPA...
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Pacific Toxicology Laboratories Saves Time with Automate

Pacific Toxicology Laboratories (PacTox), located in Chatsworth, California, is a privately owned company that performs five distinct lab functions under one roof—drug testing, biological monitoring, medical surveillance, therapeutic drug monitoring, and forensic toxicology. PacTox's competitive advantage is its unique ability to provide integrated biological testing services. Clients include...
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Appvion Improves Customer Satisfaction with a Digital Document Repository

Appvion, Inc. manufactures paper—thermal, carbonless, security, inkjet, digital specialty and colored papers. But this Appleton, Wisconsin-based company had a problem when it came to digital documents in their customer web portal. Their existing system just wasn’t up to snuff. It was time to make a change.
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For Centralized Data Processing, KeHE Relies on Fortra

As the nation’s leading distributor of natural, organic, specialty, ethnic, and gourmet food products, KeHE Distributors has helped thousands of retailers—from the smallest independent stores to the largest supermarket chains—meet the constantly growing demand for products that help people to live well. John Kinnaird is the National Operating Center Manager responsible for supporting both hardware...
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Lamps Plus Reduces Overtime Using Automation Solutions from Fortra

Established in 1976, Lamps Plus has brought excellence to the retail lighting industry for more than 35 years. Today, they are the nation’s largest specialty lighting company with more than 40 superstores throughout the western United States. They serve over five million customers a year with functional and decorative lighting products, in-home lighting consultations, in-store lighting seminars...
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Bank of Stockton Turns to Fortra for Reliable, Error-Free Operations

Founded in 1867, Bank of Stockton has always been at the forefront of banking technology innovation. With 17 branches in five counties across central California, Bank of Stockton is known as a community bank with a reputation for continually investing in new technology-based products and services to better serve its customers. Whether working to attract and retain customers, protect privacy, or...
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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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Cashman Equipment Looks to Fortra Professional Services with High Hopes

Cashman Equipment Company is not only one of the highest-rated Caterpillar equipment dealers in North America, but it is also one of the largest privately-owned companies in Nevada. Headquartered in Henderson, they employ over 600 dedicated team members of various professional and technical backgrounds. Nationally recognized by Caterpillar for outstanding sales performance, Cashman Equipment is a...
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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.