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New Trends in Workload Automation

Because IT enables competitive advantage, workload automation has had to evolve from simple job scheduling on a few mainframes to broader processes that incorporate many platforms and applications.
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All Systems Go: Integrating with Big Software

Your data, your job scheduling tool, your ERP system—they all must work in concert with one another to make your organization as efficient as possible in meeting your customers’ needs as well as your own innovation and production goals.
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Use Conditional Logic in Sequel Data Access to Convert Data into Meaningful Information

Let’s face it, the amount of data that we have is only continuing to grow, which will become harder to manage and understand. Per IDC Research, 90 percent of data in the world today was created in the last two years, and in 2016, we entered the zettabyte era . A huge challenge for everyone is finding the best way to convert all their data into meaningful information. But that can be tricky. If you...
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Debunking the Top 3 Workload Automation Myths

There are a lot of rumors out there about workload automation. Fortunately, thanks to 30+ years of job scheduling experience at Fortra, we can help you separate fact from fiction.
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Understanding Event-Driven Architecture

At its core, event-driven architecture is about reacting to various events on your systems. Event-driven architecture allows you to react to multiple different sources without having to write code for each of those sources
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Achieving Workload Automation Goals

You've heard it before: workload automation will save you time, money, and resources. But what features does your automation software need to ensure you accomplish these goals?
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Bimodal IT and Workload Automation

Bimodal IT departments are a growing trend across many industries. How does an enterprise job scheduler fit into the bimodal model?
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The Evolution of Enterprise Job Scheduling

Companies have moved gradually from job scheduling in specific areas to enterprise-wide workload automation, which helps handle application and server dependencies.