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Sequel Helps FRS Keep Things Cool!

Question: If you owned or managed a restaurant, where could you go to order your equipment—anything from teaspoons for $1.15 a dozen, to a top-of-the-line, $100,000 commercial dishwasher? Answer: Foodservice Resources and Solutions, or FRS. For more than forty years, FRS has been providing quality products, outstanding service, and competitive pricing as part of the restaurant supply and equipment...
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Sequel Streamlines Data Access at Fremont Insurance Company

A fire wipes out your crop and farm equipment…an off-course sail punctures a hole in the side of your new boat…a careless driver crashes into your bumper at a stoplight…a hailstorm damages the roof and siding on your home…. What would you do if one of these disasters happened to you? If you live in the state of Michigan, you might rely on the insurance protection of Fremont Insurance Company like...
Case Study

Sequel Provides a Complete Data Access Solution for Crete Carrier Corporation

Crete Carrier Corporation, headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, is one of the largest privately held truckload carriers in the United States. It wouldn’t be what it is today without the union of several specialists: Crete Carrier, Hunt Transportation of Omaha, Nebraska, and Shaffer Trucking of New Kingstown, Pennsylvania. The individual companies were successful for many years on their own, but by...
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Automating Terminal Emulation

This month’s sample task demonstrates how to use the Automate Terminal Emulation Actions to interact with a terminal system and import the data from the system into a file.
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Automate File Uploads to SharePoint

Here's the dilemma: You need to synchronize a set of files from a network share to a SharePoint team site on a daily basis, but these files are not just going into one SharePoint document library. The solution: Just automate the whole process with Automate.
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Discover Automate's New Capabilities for Office 365

With the eagerly anticipated release of Microsoft’s cloud-based service, Office 365, on June 28, Network Automation immediately set to work on ensuring the current Microsoft Office automation facilities in Automate were enhanced to provide its customers with equivalent automation capabilities.
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AutoMate Bridges the Gap Between Disparate Applications

Automate from Fortra provides application security, streamlined communication including sending emails and text messages to IT regarding successful or failed tasks, error handling, and flexibility and versatility via its highly coveted development interface (no programming or scripting needed).
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mySQL and the SQL Query Action

Automate can easily interact with a mySQL server and its associated databases through the SQL Query and SQL Stored Procedure actions. The document explains how to setup a mySQL data source connection through Automate that can be used to run queries against a mySQL database.
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Debugging Tasks

We'll explore some of the techniques you can use to debug tasks in the Automate Task Builder. Several features available in Automate 6.1 can help make this an easier process.