A Blend of Power and Simplicity
AutoMate 7 automates manual tasks and streamlines processes. It replaces legacy batch files, scripts and custom application development, enabling complete IT Process automation without writing a single line of code.
Benefits of AutoMate 7
AutoMate 7 provides organizations with greater control of their networks and operations, enhancing security and reliability. With its "no code" approach, development costs can be slashed up to 50% while minimizing long-term code maintenance problems. Organizations use AutoMate 7 to dramatically improve the capability and productivity of their workforces.
"No Code" Drag-and-Drop Task Development
AutoMate provides an incredibly easy-to-use, intuitive interface for developing automation applications. The basic building blocks are called actions, which are plain-English, drag-and-drop, fill-in-the-blank tools developers use to build AutoMate Tasks. Developers drag-and-drop actions in AutoMate Task Builder to build a series of AutoMate Steps which collectively make up the task.
AutoMate 7 Can:
Accelerate data flows, making information workers (i.e. business users and decision-makers) more effective and efficient by delivering real-time access to accurate data.
Eliminate time-consuming, labor-intensive, repetitive IT tasks; enabling employees to focus on activities where human interaction and thought add the most value.
Improve security and control of IT processes by centralizing the management of the automation network.
Improve collaboration between business users who benefit from automated processes and IT professionals responsible for delivering automation.
Reduce costs and hassles associated with developing and maintaining code, scripts, and batch files. Reduce machine and employee downtime stemming from process errors.
Extend the capabilities and overcome the limitations imposed by legacy systems and applications.
Features of AutoMate 7
AutoMate 7: Professional Edition vs. Premium Edition
AutoMate 7 offers two editions: Professional and Premium. The Premium Edition offers all the features found in the Professional Edition along with the following:
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SNMP Support SNMP is the internet standard protocol developed to manage nodes (servers, workstations, routers, switches, and hubs etc.) on an IP network. AutoMate has ability to launch a task when an SNMP trap is received, as well as issue SNMP messages.
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Native Terminal Emulation Support
AutoMate 7 Premium Edition allows direct automation of your legacy systems over SSH, Telnet or COM port
by supporting terminal emulation standards such as TTY, VT100, VT220, VT320, TN3270, TN5250, and ANSI natively -
eliminating the need for screen-scraping techniques.
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Runtime Support This allows for tasks to be developed within the Premium Edition, and then deployed to runtime licenses (sold separately) for remote execution. This offers an extremely cost effective means of automating multiple machines with the power of AutoMate.
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MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queuing)
MSMQ technology enables applications running at different times to communicate across heterogeneous
networks and systems that may be temporarily offline. AutoMate Premium has the capability to automate MSMQ operations, including
the ability to send, retrieve, clear or wait for MSMQ messages as well as the capability to create or delete a message queue.
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Active Directory Actions
A set of 15 Active Directory actions are included in AutoMate Premium providing the capability to create, modify, and remove
Active Directory objects, groups, or users.
These features are designed to offer greater flexibility and implementation options to the businesses that require them. While not every company will need the robustness of the Premium Edition, it will prove invaluable to those requiring support for legacy applications or seeking to automate beyond just a single desktop.
Licensing Model
Network Automation products are licensed on a per machine basis. Each machine used for management, development, or execution of an automated business processes using AutoMate 7 will require a license. Below is a brief description of each licensed product part of the AutoMate 7 product line:
- AutoMate 7 Professional The base version of AutoMate 7 designed to automate most desktop processes.
- AutoMate 7 Premium The Premium Edition has all of the functionality of the Professional Edition along with SNMP support, Terminal Emulation support, and Runtime support (see Editions Overview below).
- AutoMate 7 Runtime Each license enables the use of a runtime for execution of tasks built in the Premium Edition on one machine. Tasks reside locally on the runtime machine.
The purchase of AutoMate 7 includes 1 license for task development and execution. Runtime licenses for the Premium Edition are sold separately. Volume Discounts are available for all multi-machine license purchases.
New in AutoMate 7
Over 70 New Available Actions - Now featuring over 240 actions including extensive support for: XML, FTP/SFTP, file management, SQL, email, Active Directory, WMI, HTTP, PGP and Cryptography, DLL Calls, VB Scripts, Excel, GUI automation, Terminal Emulation, Telnet, SNMP, and many more.
Twitter Action Post an update to a Twitter Account. An excellent way to publish notifications from your automation routines.
Send IM Action Send an IM using ICQ, AIM, or Windows Live Messenger. An excellent way to receive notifications from your automation routines.
Active Directory actions - Integrate Human Resource and Employee Attendance applications with Active Directory, the most commonly used Windows-based IT system for managing the accounts, rights, and privileges of your organizations users.
Secure SMTP and Exchange Email support - Updated email actions enable you to automate notification processes, report distribution, and much more using the latest security protocols and advanced Microsoft Exchange features.
Exchange Object Manipulation Support - Automate common Microsoft Exchange tasks with Exchange Object Manipulation actions. Integrate Exchange seamlessly with Active Directory to make complex IT tasks manageable.
XML actions - A robust palette of tools for extracting from and writing to XML documents, a key component of advanced technologies such as web services.
SOAP Web Service Actions - Integrate your organizations applications with valuable internal or third-party web services to provide business users with the tools and solutions they need to excel.
MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queuing) - MSMQ technology enables applications running at different times to communicate across heterogeneous networks and systems that may be temporarily offline. AutoMate Premium has the capability to automate MSMQ operations, including the ability to send, retrieve, clear or wait for MSMQ messages as well as the capability to create or delete a message queue.
Native Type Support - Added ability to create your own object and variable types within tasks.
Updated User Interface - Faster, cleaner, and more intuitive interaction with the development interface makes for a more pleasing and productive user experience.
WMI Triggering - Detect and react to system and network-wide events to make your organizations more nimble and responsive to change.
PGP and OpenPGP Support - Native support to encrypt and decrypt files using the industry standard PGP protocol.
More enhancements can be found here.
| AutoMate 6 | AutoMate 7 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professional | Enterprise | Professional | Premium | |
| Secure FTP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Secure HTTP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Excel Integration | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Event Database | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| System Backup and Restore | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| XML Actions | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| SOAP Web Service Actions | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| WMI Triggering | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Exchange Support | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Active Directory Actions | No | No | No | Yes |
| Runtime Support | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Native Terminal Emulation | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| SNMP Support | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| MSMQ Support | No | No | No | Yes |
| Available Actions | Over 150 | Over 160 | Over 200 | Over 240 |
| Released April 2005 | Released April 2005 | Released February 2009 | Released February 2009 | |
| Download Now | Download Now | |||
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