The Business Process Automation Server
AutoMate BPA Server is an automation platform for Windows. It is multi-tiered, meaning it logically separates high-level workflow design from the complexity of building detailed automation routines. It provides centralized control over event-driven automation routines involving one machine or the entire enterprise.
AutoMate BPA Server is major advance in the orchestration, integration, and automation of business processes. It enables organizations to streamline processes that rely on a diverse IT infrastructure - multiple systems, applications, and networks - and the involvement, management, and interaction of people. It accelerates information flows so organizations can be more responsive to customer demands and agile to changing conditions.
Benefits of AutoMate BPA Server 7
AutoMate BPA Server 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 BPA Server to dramatically improve the capability and productivity of their workforces.
AutoMate BPA Server 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 BPA Server 7
BPA Server 7: Standard vs. Enterprise Edition
AutoMate BPA Server 7 offers two editions: Standard and Enterprise. The Enterprise Edition offers all the features found in the Standard Edition along with the following:
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Cross Platform Automation Direct execution across multi-platforms. The Process Agent is written in Java, which makes it compatible to the most common desktop operating systems, including Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Microsoft Windows.
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Unlimited Number of Agents
AutoMate BPA Server 7 allows for the centralized management of tasks and workflows over
your network. Enterprise Edition places no limit on Client Access License (CAL) registrations
to a server, while Standard Edition has a limit of 10.
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User Accounts
For any organization with multiple people involved in the automation lifecycle, Enterprise Edition
can create an account for each user and assign a role to restrict what changes the user can make
to the system.
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User Roles and Object Promotion
User accounts and roles enable tight control automation projects throughout the automation lifecycle-
from initial development, to testing, to full scale production. Workflows and a tasks can have a completion
state (In Development, Testing, Production or Archive) assigned to them.
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Agent Grouping
An Agent Group is a distinct AutoMate BPA Server object that contains one or more Agents within a
logical group. They can be used as a workflow object in place of individual Agents to conveniently
distribute conditions and tasks to multiple machines across an enterprise.
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Agent Failover
Switch over automatically to a redundant or standby AutoMate BPA server component upon failure or
abnormal termination of the previously active server component. The second server will immediately take
over the work of the first as soon as it detects a loss of communication.
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Workflow and Task Auditing
Enterprise Edition enables tracking of activities in BPA Server 7, such as user connection, workflow/task
creation, and deletion. Monitoring activities helps enforce internal compliance, and otherwise prevents
tampering of mission-critical tasks and workflows.
These features are designed to offer greater security, organization, reporting, and deployment options to the businesses that require them. While not every company will need the robustness of the Enterprise Edition, it will prove invaluable to those with larger or more demanding implementations of AutoMate BPA Server 7.
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 BPA Server will require a license. Below is a brief description of each licensed product part of the AutoMate BPA Server 7 solution:
- Server The Server provides all of the management and reporting capabilities for AutoMate BPA Server 7 including the Server Management Console.
- Development Tools The Development Tools are used to create the actual automated processes and include the Workflow Designer and Task Builder.
- Client Access License Each Client Access license enables the use of an Agent for execution of tasks and workflows on one machine.
The purchase of AutoMate BPA Server 7 includes 1 Server for management capabilities, 1 set of Development Tools for the development of Tasks and Workflows, and 1 Client Access License (CAL) for execution of tasks workflows. Additional Development Tools and Client Access Licenses are sold separately.
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