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Getting Buy-in to Implement RPA in Shared Services
By Paul Necklen on Wed, 03/18/2020
As areas of the business that support multiple departments and are involved in vital business processes, shared services groups tend to have a lot on their plates. Robotic process automation (RPA) has the capability to offload tedious, time-consuming tasks like data entry, invoice processing, and account creation to bots.
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3 Ways to Prepare Your Network for Unexpected Times
By Kevin Jackson on Mon, 03/16/2020
Leverage a comprehensive network monitoring solution to ensure smooth network performance when unexpected events arise.
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Digital Transformation Tools: 3 Ways to Employ RPA to Help Your Organization Succeed
By Paul Necklen on Mon, 03/09/2020
Businesses today have the opportunity to start a digital transformation initiative and see real change in their efficiency and effectiveness. While a number of tools are needed to completely transform your organization, RPA can be used in multiple different ways to achieve change.
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Streamline HR Processes with Forms Management and RPA
By Greg J. Schmidt on Thu, 03/05/2020
Find out how to automate both frontend and backend HR processes using electronic forms management and robotic process automation (RPA).
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Using RPA to Ensure Regulatory Compliance in Banking
By Paul Necklen on Thu, 03/05/2020
Banks all around the world have important regulations with which they need to comply. Robotic process automation (RPA) can help mitigate some of the pains of compliance and auditing.
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The Case for Storage Area Networks (SAN)
By Tom Huntington on Tue, 03/03/2020
Using storage area networks or SAN for virtualization and dynamic allocation of system resources can lower the total cost of ownership of disk and improve flexibility for backups and more. Here’s how.
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IBM on IASP for PowerHA Implementations
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 03/03/2020
You’ve heard about IASP technology many times over the years, but you’ve been ignoring it, haven’t you? Steve Finnes confirms that it’s past time we “get to know it, understand it, and not be afraid of it.”
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The Difference Between BPA and Job Scheduling and When You Need Both
Thu, 02/27/2020
BPA and job scheduling aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, an enterprise may use a job scheduler to support its wider BPA strategy.
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FlashCopy: Pros and Cons
By Tom Huntington on Wed, 02/26/2020
IBM System Storage FlashCopy might seem like magic. But do the benefits for IBM i business continuity outweigh the hidden costs? Read on to find out.
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Three Lessons Learned from A Data Breach
By Bob Erdman on Mon, 02/24/2020
Simple lessons learned from the many breaches we’ve observed, like careless employees and unusual attack vectors, and ways they can be avoided.
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IBM i Data Replication: Hardware vs. Software
By Tom Huntington on Mon, 02/17/2020
There are a lot of options out there for IBM i data replication. We’ll help you weigh the options as your put together the pieces of your high availability plan.
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How A One-Woman IT Department Brought Modern Education Technology to a Rural School District
By Kevin Jackson on Tue, 02/11/2020
Can a rural school district provide students with the same modern technology as larger districts? Lisa Nelson of Douglass ISD in Texas made it her mission to do so, and she succeeded.
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The One IT Software Every Organization Should Budget for This Year
By Kevin Jackson on Tue, 02/11/2020
Now’s the time when organizations finalize their budgets for next year. As spending increases on technology, investing in a network monitoring tool is more important than ever. Find out why and how to justify the ROI to your boss in this article.
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The Best Network Monitoring Tool for Universities
By Kevin Jackson on Mon, 02/10/2020
Find out why schools choose Intermapper to monitor bandwidth usage and keep their networks secure and reliable.
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What Does “Real-Time Network Monitoring” Mean, Exactly?
By Kevin Jackson on Fri, 01/31/2020
Real-time network monitoring usually means very, very fast and frequent network polling—which is close enough to real-time that we don’t bother to add caveats around it.
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RPA in Action: Automated Data Scraping
Mon, 01/20/2020
Watch this example of automated data scraping through robotic process automation to see how you can use RPA to streamline your data entry processes.