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Understanding RPA ROI: How to Measure It and Why It’s Important

Introduction Robotic process automation (RPA) can deliver significant benefits to companies of practically any size and in any industry. Its ability to improve productivity, increase innovation, and help companies deliver a better experience to customers makes it one of the most valuable tools of modern business. With effective tools for measuring the impact of RPA, companies...

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Download "20 Ways Automate Solves IT and Business Problems - The Automate Use Case Guide"

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Download "The RPA Roadmap to Success"

Learn How to Implement RPA to Drive Growth and Efficiency Robotic process automation (RPA) is the key to increasing productivity and utilizing data more effectively in your organization. RPA technology can help you partially or fully automate nearly any task. From document processing to IT and accounting, RPA can have a major impact on almost every aspect of the way you do...

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Fortra Data Management Survey Results

Fortra surveyed hundreds of professionals around the world and across multiple industries to discover how enterprises are managing data, why they are underprepared for an era of data-driven business, and how they can overcome the data management challenges they are facing.

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The Business Leader’s Handbook for Building an Automation Center of Excellence

Creating an automation center of excellence (COE) ensures that you are automating your enterprise with strategy and vision. This guide gives you the expertise you need to put together a great team, follow best practices, and continually optimize your automation COE.

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Maximizing Your RPA ROI

Learn how you can maximize RPA ROI with a long-term vision, knowledge of potential costs, and the savings that come from implementing an RPA solution.

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The Robotic Process Automation Toolkit

Automating tasks is easy, but building an automation center of excellence to promote strategic automation in your organization takes more planning. Based on our years of experience helping enterprises automate, we’ve compiled a collection of robotic process automation tools and resources to set you up for automation success. The toolkit is designed to guide you through all the...

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A Clean Slate for Enterprise Scheduling

Enterprise scheduling tools have many advantages over the older technology of client-server scheduling tools.

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Is Cron Limiting Your Automation Strategy?

Skybot Scheduler provides many advantages, including event-driven scheudling and cross-platform capabilities, over UNIX cron job scheduling.

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Workload Automation in the Modern Enterprise

Because there is still a need for recurring application processes to perform activities, there is an increased need for critical back-end computing via workload automation software.

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Who's Minding the Store? When Central Monitoring and Automatic Notification are Essential

Central monitoring and automatic notification are the keys to successful workload automation.

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Enterprise Scheduling ROI

Consolidating scheduling across multiple applications into an enterprise job scheduler increases productivity and helps the bottom line.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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Effective Log Management

IBM’s customers are turning to Power VM virtualization to consolidate multiple workloads onto fewer systems increasing server utilization and reducing cost. However a virtualized server landscape on several different IBM platforms (IBM Power Systems™, IBM System x®, and IBM BladeCenter®) may reduce hardware complexity but this puts a strain on supporting the entire lifecycle of...

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13 Tips to Write Secure Applications and Boost IBM i Security

Barely a day passes without new headlines reporting another cyber attack, policy violation, or data breach. Secretly, we breathe a sigh of relief that it happened to someone else, but most of us know that we’ll all eventually feel the impact in some capacity.

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Two Factor Authentication for IBM i

Organizations facing a more advanced threat landscape and a complex regulatory environment require a solution which addresses the need for securely controlling access to existing systems and applications. In addition, this solution should not increase the workload on support, application providers or the end user.

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Download “How IT Professionals Can Navigate PCI DSS Compliance” Guide

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) applies to every organization that processes credit or debit card information. This includes merchants and third-party service providers that store, process, or transmit credit card data. The launch of PCI DSS helped expose serious security shortcomings, failures to follow security best...