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Microsoft PowerShell was created to simplify and automate Microsoft tasks by creating scripts and combining them with multiple commands. While this has helped cut down on some repetitive work, manually deploying PowerShell scripts can still be tedious. With a workload automation solution—like JAMS from Fortra—your PowerShell scripts can reach their full potential by bringing your Read More

If there’s one thing IT and DevOps teams could always use more of — it’s time. With the ongoing talent shortage and ever-increasing project lists, efficiency and a keen understanding of priorities are key. But there are only so many hours in the day and people on the team, which means it’s important to look Read More

Yvette Carpenter is the technical operations manager for a financial services firm that spun off from another company in 2016. Before the transition, the company wasn’t using true enterprise scheduling solutions, and Carpenter was tasked with automating a great number of manual processes. After evaluating potential automation partners, the company selected JAMS, a centralized workload Read More

  Enterprise workload automation (WLA) is constantly evolving as the needs of organizations continue to shift. With the considerable investment of time and resources in solutions like Automic Automation, it can seem like an impossible task to switch to another job scheduler. But enterprise workload automation should meet the changing needs of your organization, should be...Read More

As organizations continue embracing digital transformation, it is more important than ever to leverage a strategic approach that manages diverse enterprise automation tools and solutions more holistically. Optimizing and orchestrating IT automation across a complex, diverse infrastructure requires the right vision—and the right partner—to centralize your workflows and support your critical business processes. In other...Read More

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Enterprise workload automation and job scheduling represent a mature segment of the IT world. Batch processing of administrative tasks is a chore that dates back to the time when computers were made out of vacuum tubes. But no matter how established it may be, enterprise workload automation is still ripe for improvement—there are always new Read More

  Keeping up with the complexity of IT automation requires knowing how to optimize job scheduling and workload automation with a centralized, streamlined, and cost-effective approach. Yet with the significant investment of time and resources in solutions like ActiveBatch, it may seem overwhelming to consider moving from one solution to another. View this white paper...Read More

If you have been around long enough in IT, you have likely experienced the impact of Murphy’s Law—if anything can go wrong, it will go wrong. And if you ask IT professionals what one of the biggest blunders or missteps is in their discipline, the typical answer is not adequately testing processes in a separate Read More

  Still using .bat files for your batch automation on Windows? They’re a tried-and-true method for automating your batch jobs and in the busy world of IT, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” But as automation evolves, and best practices change, you may want to ask yourself these questions to better understand what’s in Read More