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A Dozen Things You Should Know About Automated Job Scheduling
By Tom Huntington on Wed, 11/01/2023
Automated job scheduled software can give your company the competitive edge. Use these twelve tips to get started or to take your schedule to a new level.
Case Study
Portmade NV Saves Time and Labour Creating Customs Declarations with Automate
Learn how Portmade NV uses intelligent automation to capture, extract, and import data on customs declarations forms, saving the equivalent of 3.5 FTEs.
On-Demand Webinar
IBM i Automation Series: Job Scheduling
Watch this webinar series for your FREE opportunity to learn what every beginner should know about Robot Schedule software for IBM i (iSeries, AS/400) automation, plus tips and tricks for the veterans.
Article
The Difference Between OCR and IDP
Thu, 06/23/2022
Compare optical character recognition (OCR) and intelligent document processing (IDP) to learn when to use each to make structured and unstructured data more usable.
Blog
Lessons Learned from IBM's Native Scheduler
By Chuck Losinski on Mon, 03/14/2022
The systems that businesses rely on today are increasingly complex and challenging to manage without sophisticated job scheduling tools. According to the annual IBM i Marketplace Survey Results , only 22 percent of IBM i shops are running the IBM i operating system exclusively. 68 percent are also running the Windows OS, another 56 percent are running Linux, and 26 percent are running AIX. That...
On-Demand Webinar
Transform Accounts Payable Processes with Intelligent Automation
By EJ Stanley
Whether your data is structured (from a spreadsheet, database, or portal), or unstructured (from emails, forms, and invoices), we’ll show you how an intelligent capture solution can transform your AP processes to save your team hours of manual work, cut back on errors, and save money by avoiding duplicate, late or overcharged invoices.
On-Demand Webinar
File Dependencies for Batch Processing
Learn how to optimize your workload by eliminating timer jobs in WRKJOBSCDE, Cron, and Windows Task Scheduler using Robot Schedule.
On-Demand Webinar
Intelligent Automation: The Smartest Way to Automate
Thu, 07/22/2021
Robotic process automation ( RPA ) is great for handling repetitive manual tasks, but what about tasks involving data that require more critical thinking? Turn to Intelligent Automation (IA). Discover how IA uses machine learning and other cutting-edge technology to take the pain out of data classification and analysis. Whether your data is structured (from a spreadsheet, database, or portal), or...
On-Demand Webinar
Get More Control Over Your Data with Intelligent Automation
Fri, 04/30/2021
Learn how your organization can use intelligent automation to maintain control of critical information with more speed and accuracy in this on-demand webinar.
Article
Why Relying on Scripted Operations Can Be a Problem for Your Business
By Steve Brasen on Tue, 03/31/2020
Scripting provides a powerful platform to automate simple tasks, but overusing custom scripts is hazardous for your business.
On-Demand Webinar
How to Be Smart When Selecting a Job Scheduler
Watch this webinar with Fortra scheduling experts to learn which enterprise job scheduler is right for your environment.
Datasheet
Robot Schedule Interface to SAP
When you need a more dynamic job scheduler for SAP processes, simply schedule recurring jobs once in the Robot Schedule interface and there’s nothing more to do, ever.
Datasheet
Robot Schedule Interface to EnterpriseOne
Enjoy more flexibility and control over scheduling Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne jobs. With the Robot Schedule interface to EnterpriseOne, data selection is dynamic, making it a snap to schedule jobs to run unattended.
On-Demand Webinar
5 IBM i Job Scheduling Pain Points (and How to Solve Them)
Robot Schedule automatically and reliably runs millions of iSeries jobs for organizations all over the world every day. Watch this webinar to learn how.
Article
How to Automate Report Balancing Across Windows and IBM i Servers
By Chuck Losinski on Fri, 06/02/2017
Watch this short video to see how easy report balancing can be when using our integrated solution of Robot Schedule Enterprise and Automate.
Article
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.
Article
Customer Spotlight: Heartland Financial USA, Inc.
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 01/17/2017
The operations team was excited to share how Robot job scheduling and monitoring software has helped them manage their processing needs across platforms from their IBM i.