On-Demand Webinar
HR Onboarding Automation Made Easy
Find out how HR automation cuts down on paperwork and manual tasks.
Article
How the Automate Plus Security and Audit Platform Protects Your Organization (Video)
Wed, 05/24/2017
Learn about the features of the Automate Plus Enhanced Security and Audit Platform, including Active Directory integration, custom logging.
On-Demand Webinar
Go Beyond Basic Macros with Spreadsheet Automation
Spreadsheets create tedious manual work across almost every department. Learn how you can move beyond using macros and achieve easy, sophisticated Excel automation.
Blog
HR Automation Tips Part 1: Signs You Should be Automating
By Richard Schoen on Tue, 05/23/2017
Find out if it’s time to automate HR processes at your organization.
Article
See the Automate Plus Ops Console in Action (Video)
Tue, 05/16/2017
Automate Plus offers the Automate Plus Ops Console, a web-based interface that gives you the ability to monitor and manage your automation from any device. Watch the video demonstration.
Article
Automated Business Analytics Dashboards with Automate
Tue, 04/18/2017
Learn how you can use Automate to create compelling visual dashboards that track business analytics and keep your team informed.
Case Study
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...
Article
Code-Free Database Automation
Tue, 03/28/2017
Watch the recorded webinar to learn how to automate tedious database interaction tasks like data entry, reading incoming data files, and more.
On-Demand Webinar
Automated Data Scraping and Extraction for Web and More
Automate’s data scraping automation capabilities allow you to read, write, and update a wide variety of data sources automatically. Watch this webinar to learn how you can save time on data-driven processes.
Blog
Where Data Goes to Die: Business Solutions for Scraping PDFs
Sun, 01/22/2017
Sick of copying and pasting data from PDF to Excel? Business process automation software offers a better way.
On-Demand Webinar
IBM i Meets Mobile Technology
According to the 2015 IBM i Marketplace Survey, mobile access to IBM i data ranks among the top five IT concerns for the near future. Robot is here to make your mobile initiative easier.
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.
Article
Continuous Performance Data—Without Big Overhead
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 08/30/2016
There are two sides to every Robot Network. It offers centralized control of the Robot software running on your IBM i partitions as well as performance monitoring and exception-based management across your environment.
Blog
User Interfaces: GUI vs. WUI
By Tom Huntington on Tue, 08/16/2016
You might be asking yourself, “What’s a WUI?” At Robot, WUI stands for web user interface, and we think it has some big benefits that are giving the GUI a run for its money.
Article
What’s New in the Robot NETWORK Web Interface?
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 08/16/2016
Just when you were getting used to the GUI, Robot NETWORK gives its web interface a boost that makes managing your performance and Robot product metrics even easier.
Article
Robot and FlashCopy
By Tom Huntington on Tue, 08/16/2016
Last month, Chuck Stupca (retired IBMer) and Chuck Losinski (Fortra) presented a webinar discussing FlashCopy for IBM i . Based on the attendance, it looks like this is a very important topic for many of you so I wanted to explain how FlashCopy ties to Robot products.
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.
Case Study
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...
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.