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B2B and B2C Data Exchange with an Enterprise Job Scheduler
Fri, 11/11/2016
Modern business involves constant transfers of data between your company and its customers and partners. Make sure you have the right tool for the job.
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Bumble Bee Seafood Enjoys Easy Implementation and Top-notch Support with Automate Schedule
Bumble Bee Seafood is North America’s largest branded shelf-stable seafood company. Since 2014, Bumble Bee has used Automate Schedule to run jobs spanning SAP systems and Bumble Bee’s network servers. Bumble Bee has an international presence and uses Automate Schedule to manage processes on servers spanning multiple continents.
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Who's Afraid of IASPs?
By Tom Huntington on Tue, 08/16/2016
As IASP technology continues to grow, so will its uses for high availability (HA) and backups. The result of that will be shrinking hardware costs and complexity and increased redundancy.
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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.
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Is the i Ready for the Three Vs of Big Data?
By Tom Huntington on Mon, 06/27/2016
The three Vs of big data are volume, velocity, and variety, but in order derive value from big data, IT departments need tools to store massive amounts of data (volume) and make sure it is always available for quick analysis (velocity).
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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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The 9 Server Sprawl Questions You Need to Ask
Mon, 06/27/2016
For budding companies, server sprawl may be just one of many growing pains—a temporary inconvenience for a greater good. But if you’re struggling to complete processes on time, stalling with the auditors, and jumping from server to server whenever an error occurs, it’s time to ask the tough questions.
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The #1 Step Before Automation
Fri, 06/10/2016
An up-to-date and comprehensive runbook won't win you any awards. But when you get the green light to implement a workload automation tool, documentation is your lifeline. Unfortunately, most runbooks aren’t up to snuff.
Enterprise Job Scheduling for the Manufacturing Industry
Manufacturers face intense pressure to increase productivity and reduce time to market. With global competition rising and customers expecting faster-than-ever delivery, you don’t have any time to waste on inefficient IT operations.
Meanwhile, IT environments are becoming more complex. More devices—like smartphones and tablets—are in use on the factory floor. New applications are constantly imp...
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AAA Life Leverages Fortra Solutions for IT Efficiency
Part of the American Automobile Association (AAA) family, AAA Life Insurance Company offers a variety of competitive life insurance, annuity, and travel accident products. With over one million policies, many people rely on AAA Life to help provide protection for their loved ones.
As Senior Systems Engineer at AAA Life, Randy Wittner is in charge of their IBM i environment, overseeing two S824...
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Enterprise Job Scheduling for the Retail Industry
Retail companies run on information. There are constant updates to sales and inventory data, often from many different locations. E-commerce sites collect browsing and shopping cart information to better advertise their offerings. An increasing number of brick-and-mortar stores have integrated with mobile apps to allow customers to learn about products while they shop.
All of this data is essen...
Enterprise Job Scheduling for Healthcare and Pharmacies
The healthcare industry has gone through dramatic changes in the past few decades. Electronic medical record (EMR) technology has improved the accuracy of health profiles, assisted medical decision-making, and given patients increased access to their records.
These new technologies have also put new pressures on the IT departments of healthcare providers and pharmacies. Files have to be updated...
Automate Schedule Web Services
Web services are a part of daily life for most people, whether you’re reserving airline tickets, editing photos stored online, or transferring money from one bank account to another.
Businesses rely heavily on web services too. They make it easier to pass information to customers and other businesses. Applications that run critical processes are often available as web services, which are conven...
Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Job Scheduling
Concurrent Manager, the basic tool in the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) for monitoring and managing scheduled jobs, allows you to track business resources and the status of business commitments, but it has its limitations. One major drawback is that it only allows limited job scheduling start conditions. “And/or” logic cannot be applied; rather, the status of completed jobs are noted with a simple...
Enterprise Job Scheduling for Banking and Finance
The fast-paced world of banking and financial services presents special IT challenges. Customers trust you with their valuable assets, and in turn expect transactions to be processed quickly, accurately, and securely. When it comes to money, they won’t tolerate errors or delays. That’s why any company processing financial transactions needs to have a secure, reliable workload automation software s...
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Your organization likely utilizes powerful applications, such as SAP or Informatica PowerCenter, to keep operations up and running. Automate Schedule makes it easy to integrate application processes into your IT workflow and manage the enterprise schedule from a single location. Rather than monitoring specific schedules for each application and IT jobs, your administration team can view, moni...