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Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise: Help/Systems extends i OS job scheduler to Linux and UNIX
Reprinted from Four Hundred Stuff, March 2009
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Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise: Event-driven scheduling drives your enterprise
It’s 9:00 p.m. in the local mall, and the long retail day is over. But, the behind-the-scenes operations are just beginning. Each day, your company’s data center operations group must gather the day’s transactions, consolidate data from 125 stores, upload the data to the retail software running on the System i, run batch processes, back up the data, generate reports, and send a new inventory file back to each of the 125 stores. No problem, right?
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Automation: Relax… Have a cup of tea… and review your automation options
Surprisingly, many of the customers I’ve visited over the past year have lost the automation vision. They need to recommit themselves. Today’s operations departments need to become more automated to keep up with ever-expanding technologies.
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Robot/ALERT: Six tips

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Robot/CONSOLE: The four primary tasks
Over the last decade I’ve had the opportunity to use Robot/CONSOLE to help many of our customers automate the four critical tasks of monitoring their System i. These customers ranged from small one-system shops to huge organizations with dozens of partitions and systems. In each case, Robot/CONSOLE was so flexible and powerful it was able to perform the often dull, day‑to‑day tasks of manual monitoring and management. By taking over these tasks, Robot/CONSOLE reduced everyone’s workload, saved them money, and provided them more quality time for other tasks that they enjoy.
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Robot/CONSOLE: Six tips
Make the most of your message management assistant!
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Robot/REPORTS: Paper! It's everywhere you don't want it to be
Paper is everywhere in corporate America. Most software applications produce too much paper, and most corporations spend too much time and too much money printing and archiving paper. Learn how Robot/REPORTS can help.
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Robot/SAVE: Discover the power of data encryption
Proper disaster recovery procedures dictate that you rotate your tapes to an off-site location to make sure they’re protected in case of disaster. However, once these tapes leave the building, they’re out of your control. This is the time when the data on those tapes is the most vulnerable. For this reason, encrypting the data saved to tape should be an important part of any disaster recovery plan.
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Using the Robot products to achieve Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

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Training and Services: Why now is a great time to select on-site services
Now is the perfect time to take advantage of Help/Systems On-Site Services. Consider the following:

• Your list of projects keeps growing, while the window of time to complete them is shrinking.
• Your business has experienced recent staff changes in the Operations department so that scheduling critical online or off-site training specific to your business has become difficult.
• Your business has grown or changed substantially, increasing the opportunities to automate your operations using the Robot products.
• You cannot take advantage of the advanced Robot product features because your staff lacks training, or you don’t have time to upgrade the products.

SEQUEL: The 7-course meal of BI tools
Satisfy your end users with the tool options they crave
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Software Development: As agile as it gets
How agile development streamlines the traditional process.
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International Support: Run Robot globally with local support
Help/Systems' diverse team assists customers worldwide
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Support: You ain't got time to update?
Why it's worth your time and resources to update your software levels
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