Guide
Enterprise Scheduling ROI
Consolidating scheduling across multiple applications into an enterprise job scheduler increases productivity and helps the bottom line.
Guide
Beyond Cron: How to Know When You've Outgrown Cron Scheduling
Cron is a useful tool, but for today’s large, interconnected enterprises it has its limitations. Modern enterprise job scheduling tools offer superior functionality, ease of use, and a more modern, graphical user interface.
Guide
Why You Need an Enterprise Scheduler
The best way to resolve the issue of multiple schedulers is with an enterprise scheduler that can build cross-platform job streams to handle the different applications.
Blog
Automation is Key to Staying in the Driver’s Seat of your Data-Driven Strategy
By Dan Twing on Tue, 03/14/2017
In this guest post, EMA's Dan Twing discusses the data management challenges facing enterprises today and how automation software can help.
Guide
Powertech Password Self Help for IBM i: Self-Service Password Reset
Resetting disabled passwords is an inevitable activity. Read this guide to find out you can reduce password management costs and increase efficiency with an easy-to-use tool that allows IBM i users to reset their own passwords.
On-Demand Webinar
Cloud Migration and Automation
By Pat Cameron
Fortra has just released new research on the state of cloud migration and automation. Find out what we learned and how it can help you with your cloud strategy.
Guide
Download “Identity & Access Management for IBM i”
Insiders are responsible for 34 percent of data breaches—and insiders are also the most difficult threat to control control on IBM i. You can't lock them out completely because your IBM i users need at least some level of access to do their jobs.
So, how do you ensure users have only the access they need without overburdening IT with manual processes that...
Blog
Where Data Goes to Die: Business Solutions for Scraping PDFs
Sun, 01/22/2017
Sick of copying and pasting data from PDF to Excel? Business process automation software offers a better way.
Blog
Looking for a Cron Replacement? Search No Longer.
Wed, 01/11/2017
Crontab scheduling simply can’t support a growing and changing enterprise. Read on to find out how to seamlessly replace cron with enterprise job scheduling software—and never look back.
On-Demand Webinar
Streamline Document Management with Automate
Learn how to further streamline your document management efforts by creating automated business processes with AutoMate.
On-Demand Webinar
Job Scheduling: Basic to Advanced
By Pat Cameron
Fortra offers two automation platforms to handle the complex scheduling needs of modern enterprises: AutoMate and Skybot. Join this live webinar to learn about using these solutions to orchestrate processes from the server down to the user’s desktop.
Blog
Job Scheduling: Basic to Advanced (Webinar Recap)
Thu, 12/08/2016
As IT environments become increasingly complex, so do a business's job scheduling needs. Learn how Fortra job scheduling and robotic process automation solutions can help you streamline your unique IT processes.
Article
Automate Roadmap: Key Features for Building an Enterprise Automation Strategy
Thu, 12/08/2016
An effective automation strategy requires a comprehensive platform that integrates business processes across the entire enterprise. Learn how Automate’s enterprise-class solutions can help you streamline operations and make better and faster strategic decisions.
On-Demand Webinar
Top 5 Reasons You Need a Test Environment with your Job Scheduler
By Pat Cameron
If you're using an enterprise job scheduler, do you have a test environment for your job scheduling? Here's why you should.
Guide
Download “Automation without Alienation”
Automation has the potential to transform the way we work. It allows organizations drive efficiencies, increase reliability, and cut costs. But not everyone is on board with the change. Automation can be frightening to employees who worry about losing their jobs to robots and computers.
This white paper from Computing tackles the problem of how to go forward implementing automation while...
Article
Intermapper Application for Splunk Answers Need for Log Analytics in Network Management
By Shamus McGillicuddy on Wed, 09/07/2016
The Intermapper application for Splunk brings together Intermapper's robust network monitoring software with Splunk's high-powered searches and analysis of data stores.
Case Study
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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Press Release
HelpSystems (now Fortra) Fills Encryption Gap With Linoma Buy
Despite all the IBM i security vendors that Fortra has bought over the years--and there have been at least five of them--the company has lacked one key security capability valued by enterprises: encryption.
Press Release
HelpSystems (now Fortra) Expands its Business Process Automation Offerings with Acquisition of Network Automation, Inc.
With this acquisition, Fortra offers one of the industry's most comprehensive IT and business process automation portfolios with virtual and cloud-based technology, as well as a broad set of application integrations.
Article
Automate 7 Task Builder in Depth
Wed, 04/06/2016
Automate 7 Task Builder now supports multiple tasks within one Task Builder instance. While this has the obvious benefit of increasing the ease of use of editing and creating multiple tasks in one place we've taken it a step further and implemented a feature that many have asked for: