Blog
Pros and Cons: PowerShell vs. RPA
Wed, 03/28/2018
PowerShell automation scripts are a staple of system administrator duties. Should you be considering RPA instead?
Blog
Automate Your Workflows with these Approaches and Best Practices
Tue, 03/27/2018
Automation best practices are key to tackling different workflows that call for different approaches. Learn how to choose the automation method that gives you the best ROI.
On-Demand Webinar
5 Ways RPA Projects Fail
Thu, 03/22/2018
An estimated 30 to 40 percent of initial robotic process automation (RPA) projects fail to meet expectations. With any new, transformative technology, failures are going to happen. But with the right amount of planning, expectation setting, and execution, failed projects can be avoided or turned around.
Watch Fortra and Avasant as they discuss five pitfalls that...
Blog
Are Excel Macros Putting Your Business at Risk?
Tue, 03/13/2018
Excel macros and Excel VBA automation, like any type of automation, provide benefits like increased efficiency and time-savings. But they may also be putting your business at risk.
Datasheet
Automate Excel Tasks
Automate can drastically reduce the time required to complete an entire Excel process, while also eliminating errors.
On-Demand Webinar
Automate Development Best Practices
By Pat Cameron
Learn about best practices for developing tasks and workflows with Automate.
Article
How To Automate Web Services
Tue, 02/27/2018
An introduction to Web Services, and how Automate helps you leverage that functionality.
On-Demand Webinar
Advanced Excel Automation for the Enterprise
You don't have to copy and paste spreadsheet data anymore. Watch the webinar to learn how you can easily automate critical Excel processes.
Blog
Managing an ERP System Tips | Automate
Tue, 02/06/2018
ERP software is critical to running your business, but are your ERP processes efficient enough? Learn how ERP automation streamlines operations.
GUI Automation Software
What Is GUI Automation?
GUI automation is a way to mimic user actions, like mouse and keyboard input, to automate processes involving clicks, field inputs, image recognition, and scrolling. While not considered the most elegant method for automation, sometimes the only way to enter into and extract information from an application is through its user interface.
For users faced with this ...
Automated Software Testing
Product testing can be a time-consuming process for even the most efficient quality assurance departments. However, the importance of testing a product can never be understated, and the quality of the product can be directly tied to the amount of testing the product has undergone. Automated software testing is a way to automate product testing to provide better results in less time and with much l...
Automated Batch Processing Software
Batch processing powers the jobs, tasks, and workflows that keep your business going. Because typical batch processing requires IT developers to write detailed code to create and schedule scripts, this process can be long and tedious, taking up precious time that could be better spent on more value-added tasks.
Automate makes it easier to create the code needed to execute batch processes. With ...
Event Log Monitoring
Traditional event log monitoring solutions watch for problems and notify IT staff when a problem occurs. Some even allow a single program or batch file to be run in response. Automate takes event log monitoring one very important step further. With Automate, IT professionals can quickly build multi-step corrective action tasks. For example, when an application general protection fault is written t...
Automated Data Backup & File Replication
Nothing is more valuable than the data that drives your business. And nothing is more critical than backing up key systems and databases. Automated data backup is easy with Automate—we provide all the tools for automated backups and remote transport of critical files and data without requiring you to write scripts, batch files, or custom programs. More than that, Automate enables automated disaste...
SharePoint Automation
Microsoft SharePoint is a powerful business collaboration platform. For many organizations, SharePoint is a mission critical component of their operations; it facilitates intranet portals, extranets and websites, document management and file management, collaboration spaces, social networking tools, enterprise search, business intelligence tooling and process/information integration. For IT, in pa...
Terminal Emulation Automation
In the mixed environments of modern enterprises, employees need to access a variety of applications across multiple systems. For example, an administrator may have to log into and pull data from a program on a mainframe legacy system. A terminal emulator gives you access to remote terminals from your current system.
But in a streamlined and automated enterprise, access isn't good enough. Automa...
Article
Meet Automate Plus: Building Enterprise-level Automation Just Got Easier
Mon, 02/05/2018
Automate Plus is a scalable automation platform designed to meet the full spectrum of business automation needs. Learn how you can use Automate Plus to build strategic automation across your entire organization.
Automate 101
Browse the below video topics to get started with Automate 101. Each chapter provides video tutorials and instructions designed to increase your product knowledge.
Blog
Get the Robotic Process Automation Toolkit
Mon, 01/29/2018
The Robotic Process Automation Toolkit is designed to help you craft an automation strategy and build your automation center of excellence. Use these robotic process automation tools and resources to calculate ROI, optimize automated workflows, and more.