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You don't have to lie awake at night
Put your mind at ease with Robot/SECURITY
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SEQUEL: The 7-course meal of BI tools
Satisfy your end users with the tool options they crave
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Sleepless in the data center
The effort to keep today’s data center operating smoothly is a constant challenge of juggling priorities, workloads, security, disaster planning, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), regulations, staffing, and more.
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Discover the power of encryption with Robot/SAVE
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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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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Is Robot/SCHEDULE an enterprise scheduler?
Are you under pressure to manage and control your business processes from one central scheduler? Many Operations teams are. Upper management likes the idea of having a single technology controlling all batch processing. The production control staff likes the idea of having only one tool to learn. Find out if Robot/SCHEDULE can do it all for you!
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Six tips for using Robot/CONSOLE
Make the most of your message management assistant
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Top 6 uses of Robot/ALERT

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As agile as it gets
How agile development streamlines the traditional process
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Using the Robot products to achieve Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

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How the Robot products address enterprise management
What is at the center of your computing universe? For users of Help/Systems products, the answer often is the IBM System i and i5/OS. That’s where the most important applications run. But, the IT universe is a lot bigger than it used to be. You may have multiple copies of i5/OS to monitor (either on separate System i systems or separate partitions). You also probably have Windows, UNIX, and Linux servers to manage. Plus, you have printers and many other devices to monitor. So, how can the Help/Systems products help?
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Testing 1... 2... 3...
At Help/Systems, our philosophy about quality and testing has evolved and clarified over 25 years into a workable and pragmatic process that produces great results.
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Run Robot globally with local support
Help/Systems' diverse team assists customers worldwide
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Business intelligence with no data warehouse
With SEQUEL, you can quickly and easily set up a powerful, cost effective, flexible business intelligence solution, without a time-consuming, expensive data warehouse development project.
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You ain't got time to update?
Why it's worth your time and resources to update your software levels
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