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Scale of IT capacity planning tools that balance cost and risk
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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 infrastructure risk are...
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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.
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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.
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Monitoring
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Have You Met SAM?

By Chuck Losinski on Mon, 06/27/2016
Isn’t it time your job scheduling environment (and your IBM i) got the modern look it deserves? Give Schedule Activity Monitor a try for graphically monitoring your jobs on the go.
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Interfaces with Robot Schedule

By Chuck Losinski on Mon, 06/27/2016
If you’re using EnterpriseOne or SAP, it may be to take a closer look at the security and business process automation that Robot Schedule can offer these key applications on IBM i. We don’t talk enough about the integration we’ve done between Robot Schedule and EnterpriseOne (formerly JD Edwards, now owned by Oracle) and SAP.
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Global IT Management Survey 2016—NewsWorthy Analysis

Mon, 02/01/2016
Results of a Kelton survey in which IT departments in large enterprises are tasked with responding to numerous business-impacting issues on any given day, including equipment failures, fluctuating website demand, and data security.
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Vityl and ITIL

Wed, 02/05/2014
TeamQuest (a Fortra company) can help organizations improve their chances at a successful ITIL implementation through the ITIL best practices listed in this article.
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Implementing a Consolidation Strategy

Mon, 02/04/2013
Improve Service quality "IT organizations should engage in a server consolidation project with three major goals: cost reduction, agility improvement and service-level improvement." Source: “Key Issues for Servers,” Gartner Inc. GOAL: IMPLEMENT A CONSOLIDATION STRATEGY Many companies are re-evaluating their IT infrastructures in light of changing business practices, economic demands, and security...
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