ZDNet's Jeff Cerny writes about how the rise of the cloud and virtualization has given companies access to practically infinite business resources. Network Automation CEO Dustin Snell explains how to use automation to make the best of those resources.

Mariana Simoes of Business Insider seeks Dustin Snell's advice on what it means for a CEO to step out of his comfort zone for a whole new perspective on the company and product.

Forbes writer, Doug Guthrie, analyzes what it means for a leader—from the Pope to Network Automation's own Dustin Snell—to step down. But luckily for NAI, Snell returned to the role of CEO.

Chris MacKinnon with Data Center Post recaps Network Automation's record year and what it means to the company as founder Dustin Snell returns to CEO.

Karen E. Klein, of Bloomberg Businessweek, talks with CEO Dustin Snell about what it means for a founder to take a break from his company.

SocalTECH discusses Network Automation's recent big news: Dustin Snell back as CEO and the company's 8th consecutive year of record growth.

Melissa Donovan from Software Magazine talks about the past, present and future of Network Automation's AutoMate.

Pam Baker, with Small Business Computing, talks with Network Automation's CEO Gary Bishop and CTO Dustin Snell about the hype surrounding Big Data and what it means for SMBs.

Erin Harrison, executive editor, strategic initiatives at TMCNet, covers Network Automation's Top 6 IT Pain Points facing SMBs.

For the second year in a row, Martin Gadzinowski has been selected to CRN's Channel Chiefs for being one of the most influential and powerful leaders in the IT channel.

IT Business Edge provides a slideshow of Network Automation’s top five returns on investment for cloud automation. With 60% of companies flagging cloud computing as a top priority for 2012, automation tasks executed in cloud and hybrid-cloud environments will become essential to maximize ROI.

Erin Harrison, executive editor, strategic initiative of TMCNet InfoTech Spotlight, features Network Automation’s top five returns on investment of cloud automation.

Jason Bovberg at Windows IT Pro reviews the latest releases from Network Automation, AutoMate 9 and AutoMate BPA Server 9. The software solution’s enhanced offerings mark the expansion of the “no-code’s” platform.

Business process automation software vendor, Network Automation, has rolled out the latest versions of its software solutions--AutoMate 9 and AutoMate BPA Server 9. AutoMate 9 adds SharePoint automation as well as automation of a range of entity data management activities within the Microsoft Dynamics CRM software.

In the 2011 Windows IT Pro Awards, AutoMate 8 earned the Editor’s Best Gold Medal for Best Task Automation Product. And thanks to the overwhelming support from our customers, the tabulation of votes for the Community Choice Award provided AutoMate the Bronze Medal in the same task automation category.

Benjamin F. Kuo of socalTECH.com talks with Gary Bishop, CEO of Network Automation, about AutoMate and the competing IT automation market in Southern California.

The good folks a Network Automation stopped by to introduce me to their product AutoMate and talk about business process automation in general. Although business process automation isn’t flashy, streamlining, optimizing and automating processes that create value for the organization is really important. As business processes start to encompass functions running in the clouds somewhere, managing those processes as part of a complete workflow comes to the forefront as a necessity.

An interesting roundup of launches this week; apparently the vendor side has wised up to the pesky fact that building a private cloud infrastructure gets you a bunch of virtual servers you can turn on and off. It doesn't actually help you do anything productive, it just offers a tidy automated platform and a way to tell your boss that "yes, we are 'doing cloud,' no, we are not using ACME Public Cloud, your vacation pictures are safe."

New HQ: Network Automation Inc., a maker of IT and business software, has moved to a new headquarters in Koreatown. The offices, at 3530 Wilshire Blvd., were chosen in part to accommodate Network Automation’s recent 25 percent increase in tech support staff.

Data Center Post conducted a Q&A with Aleksey Lazaryev to find out how automation technology is useful in today’s enterprise data centers.

Mid America Clinical Laboratories operates blood labs and manages labs in hospitals as well. As with almost all healthcare operations these days, there's little tolerance for IT processes that don't keep up with the demands of the business. In a recent interview with FierceCIO, Mark Ballard, CIO for Mid America, discussed how automation tools streamlined IT processes and improved reliability at a relatively low cost.

Network Automation’s Martin R. Gadzinowski Jr. was named a 2011 Channel Chief by Everything Channel’s CRN. Representing the who's who of channel management, the 2011 Channel Chiefs chosen by CRN head up the partner programs that solution providers depend on to run their business.

For SMBs wondering about better ways to do more with less, you might want to consider deploying process automation software.

Network Automation Inc. has named Gary Bishop chief executive. Bishop, who was formerly chief strategy officer for the Koreatown company, took over earlier this month. The company’s former CEO, founder Dustin Snell, has switched to chief software architect.

Computer Business Review covered Gary Bishop's appointment as the new CEO and reported his thoughts regarding his new role: "Automation software is experiencing very strong growth due to demand for efficiency and increased IT and business process complexity and our success is attributable to excellent market execution, exceptional product innovation, unique scalability, and the caliber of service we provide to our customers."

socalTECHcom: Los Angeles-based Network Automation, a developer of IT business process automation software, announced that it has named Gary Bishop as the firm's CEO. Founder and former CEO Dustin Snell becomes Chief Software Architect.

Network automation-it's a technology and it's also the name of a company that prides itself on a no-code, no-limits approach to IT automation.

Provider of IT and business process automation software Network Automation has announced the release of its latest automation software solutions -- AutoMate 8 and AutoMate BPA Server 8. This latest announcement marks the expansion of the current platform by offering virtualization and cloud computing automation solutions in addition to comprehensive list of new features.

The new features in AutoMate 8 are designed to help enable IT and business users alike to automate tasks.

Automate 8 software automates tasks in Amazon Cloud Services application and VMware environments

Windows IT Pro's annual Editors' Best and Community Choice award programs offer a unique way to recognize the hottest products among the past year's offerings. This year, AutoMate 7 takes Silver in the "Best Task Automation Product" category.

Network Automation, a provider of IT and business process automation software, announced its record sales results for the first nine months of 2010 as revenues grew by more than 30 percent over the same reporting period in 2009.

At its inception in 2004, Network Automation sold exclusively direct. Today, about one-third of the company's sales are through the channel, and Network Automation expects that number to hit 50% sometime next year.

First Rate relies on Network Automation's software for centralized management and streamlined processing. Using Network Automation's AutoMate BPA Server software, the company runs some 30 to 40 batch jobs nightly. Click through to learn more about how First Rate is using AutoMate.

Network Automation, a leader in mid-market IT automation software, has shown signs of remarkable progress, indicated by a record sales result for the three month period ending March 31, 2010. When compared with the same reporting period in 2009, revenues have increased by 18.7 percent, and 200 new clients have been signed over by the company for the first quarter of 2010. This included names like Citibank, GE healthcare and Safeway.

With more than 400 ready-mix concrete trucks on the street at any given time, St. Marys Canada Building Materials (CBM) relies heavily on real-time data transmitted from those vehicles to its fleet management software to meet customers' construction schedules.

For any hospital, feeding hundreds of patients three times a day involves substantial paperwork. At California's Saddleback Memorial Medical Center, completing these tasks consumed roughly 20 hours per week until 2007. That year, the facility installed Network Automation's AutoMate BPA Server, a drag-and-drop client/server business process automation platform that eliminates many repetitive manual IT tasks without the need for costly custom scripting.

Vanderburgh County, Ind., uses an Automatic Vehicle Location system to collect the locations of snowplow trucks as well as keep track of their task-completion progress. Now the area can better manage its snowplow services

For Prime Liberty, a Toronto-based outsourcer of medical savings programs, data delivery is a core part of its business. So when the company found that its manual process for formatting and preparing data reports for customers was taking up more and more time each day, it began looking for a software product that could automate the task.

Jeff James, editor in chief of Windows IT Pro, says "Automating the most time consuming and repetitive IT tasks can reap huge benefits for any harried IT professional." And the readers of Windows IT Pro couldn't agree more as they overwhelmingly voted for AutoMate 7 as their preferred automation product.

AutoMate is more than an application--it's practically a platform. Its raft of features relieves the burden of monotonous tasks. The clean interface easily manages numerous tasks and carefully guides you through adding new ones.

Network Automation's AutoMate BPA Server -- the client/server, multimachine editions of its no-code drag-and-drop business process automation platform -- now includes the ability to centrally control automation routines for both Windows and non-Windows machines.

Network World names AutoMate BPA Server 7 "Product of the Week".

Redmond Magazine reviews AutoMate BPA 7 and awards the product a Redmond Rating of 9.6 out of 10! This review solidifies Network Automation's AutoMate BPA Server 7 as a Redmond MVP (Most Valuable Product) for two years in a row.

Redmond has just released the results of its Reader's Choice Awards. Network Automation's AutoMate 7 wins the top spot in the "Best Scripting Tool" category, beating out 13 other products. AutoMate BPA Server 7 captures third place in the "Best Network Automation and Batch-Processing Tool" category, as it was edged out narrowly by Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and ScriptLogic Desktop Authority.

AutoMate software is helping Vanderburgh County Highway Department to better manage its fleet of trucks, especially on stormy winter nights. Vanderburgh placed automatic vehicle location (AVL) units on its snow plows which provides managers with real-time data on the location of their equipment and workers. This information enables managers to deploy their resources in a more effective manner. AutoMate is the glue that binds the data transmitted from the trucks to Vanderburgh's information systems.

The cost and complexity of business process automation software once kept all but the largest enterprises from deploying it. But the economic turmoil has focused greater attention on the cost savings and general business efficiency that business process automation can bring to smaller companies. For Network Automation, a software vendor in the business process automation space, the economic uncertainty has opened ample opportunities in the midmarket.

Every night for several years, the five Latin America offices of Michigan-based medical technology products manufacturer Stryker Corp. were forced to burn the midnight oil to turn their daily financials into a single consolidated report. Each office has its own independent ERP system, so the process required nearly 18 hours of late-night labor that sometimes lasted past 11 p.m. But in 2004, IT managers at Stryker Latin America automated the entire process without the expense of writing code.

Although computer systems have driven business into the 21st century, there are still plenty of monotonous, repetitive tasks in the data center that can make an IT administrator feel as if she is sitting at a 19th century manufacturing machine pumping out widgets.

Everything has a process. Perfecting it is good for business. Top firms constantly analyze how their wheels turn and fine-tune accordingly. Investor's Business Daily interviews Dustin Snell to understand how the best organizations go beyond analysis to execution.

eWeek has named Network Automation's AutoMate BPA Server 7 one of its products to watch for the month of August, 2009.

Network Automation has been named to Inc. Magazine's 2009 list of the 5000 fastest growing privately-held companies. With a three-year growth rate of 60%, Network Automation is one of the top privately held software growth companies in the nation. Through this growth, the company is demonstrating the increased need for premier business process automation solutions among small to medium sized businesses.

Fabrication & Metal Working magazine explains how AutoMate is helping manufacturers perform a litany of tasks required to support their ERP systems. The magazine highlights Magic Metals, a sheet metal fabricator, which is saving a lot of time and money by using AutoMate to run ERP utilities.

Network Automation has announced AutoMate BPA Server 7, which adds features such as client-server architecture, multiple-machine automation capability and a visual design tool.

Month's end at the Globe Pequot Press used to be especially demanding for the travel book publisher's IT staff. The firm must issue reports on all its titles, as well as the books it markets and ships for its 20 clients. With AutoMate software, the timeline for this manually intensive process has been streamlined significantly.

Rich Tehrani, President of TMCnet, interviews Dustin Snell at the Interop Conference. Topics covered include Network Automation's unique space in the IT automation market, as well as the benefits organizations derive from automation.

InformationWeek interviews Joe Kosco about the role for automation in organizations looking to increase efficiencies, as well as the new features in AutoMate 7 that enable advanced automation.

Automation isn't new, but with few budget dollars and strapped IT staff, many enterprise network managers are turning to the technology to complete operational tasks and create a more efficient environment. Interop Las Vegas and Forrester IT Forum this week shared why automation technology could help IT departments continue to deliver optimal IT services without requiring a significant capital investment.

Windows IT Pro features a white paper written by Network Automation that focuses on how IT departments can do more with less in a down economy.

Network Automation, Inc. has updated AutoMate BPA Server, the client/server multi-machine edition of its drag-and-drop business process automation platform enabling automation of repetitive computing tasks without coding. The upgrade adds support for Web services, enhanced support for Microsoft Exchange, grouping of agent machines to expedite workflow assembly, and more than 25 other new features and actions.

Network Automation has announced a series of enhancements to AutoMate BPA Server, the client/server multi-machine edition of its business process automation platform. The upgrade adds support for Web Services, Microsoft Exchange, the grouping of agent machines for workflow assembly, and other new features and actions.

CNLBancshares Inc. of Orlando says it has reduced data processing errors, improved the performance of its technology staff and saved money by automating nightly operations with AutoMate.

Network World has just named AutoMate BPA Server 7 as its Product of the Week.

Network Automation has released enhancements to its AutoMate BPA (Business Process Automation) Server that will enable users to use Web services in automation routines without having to script. In addition, the enhancements to AutoMate BPA Server 7.0.8 will automatically create, modify or delete Microsoft Outlook objects-including calendar and contact entries-bases on pre-set event triggers, and will build automation workflows for groups of agent machines, which will speed up workflow assembly for systems that do the same tasks.

Michael Domingo from Redmond Radio interviews Dustin Snell about why automation is so important in today's IT landscape.

Baptist Health South Florida saw a large return on investment while using AutoMate as its health automations system, said Jason Stoyles, corporate manager of interfaces and integration. "About four years ago we had a problem that we needed to solve with claims processing," he said. The software improved the third party billing process, streamlining it. In all, he said, the system has seen a savings, on all processes, of about $250,000 since implementation.

BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse, a restaurant chain based in Huntington Beach, Calif. opened in 1978 with one restaurant but has grown rapidly and now has 82 restaurants scattered throughout the South, Southwest and Midwest. Brian Pearson, vice president of information services, tells IncTechnology.com that a network automation server helped the restaurant change menu prices across the company in 15 minutes - as opposed to six hours.

Network Automation has released a new version of AutoMate, software that lets you automate processes without writing any code. AutoMate 7 is the biggest AutoMate upgrade ever in terms of new features. It includes 70 new actions to support Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, encryption, web services support, and much more.

With more than 400 ready-mix concrete trucks on the street at any given time, St. Marys Canada Building Materials (CBM) relies heavily on real-time data transmitted from those vehicles to its fleet management software to meet customers' construction schedules.

Automating portions of IT management tasks can tighten security, reduce risk, and make the flow of files and data more transparent, manageable, and compliant with regulations. Users can also benefit through fresher data and more timely updates.

The departure of an employee in early 2005 uncovered significant process inefficiencies at Medmarc ($352 million in total assets). "We had just adopted a new reinsurance system when the IT person administrating our month-end closing tasks left the company," recalls Medmarc developer Chris Prime. "And we quickly realized we were babysitting far too many manual processes."

Snowstorms can be intense enough in Vanderburgh County, Ind., that the local roadways must be plowed. After a blizzard there left 2 feet of snow, the county developed a GIS Web tool in 2006 for citizens who are antsy to know when to expect snowplow service.

"Never write another batch file or custom script again" - that's the promise made by Network Automation (News - Alert), a provider of business automation solutions by industry. Officials at the Los Angeles-based company say their AutoMate tools - including the new AutoMate 6 next-generation platform - enable sophisticated automation development without the need for writing and managing code. Recently, TMCnet caught up with Network Automation Chief Executive Officer Dustin Snell, who says that economy is putting pressure on organizations to pursue solutions with powerful and often immediate returns on investment. AutoMate solutions specifically address these challenges, he says.

Network Automation is honored to be the recipient of Redmond Magazine's Most Valuable Product award (MVP) in 2008 for AutoMate BPA Server 7.

Let's face it—the benefits of scripting are undeniable, but learning the craft isn't exactly easy. It takes time and practice. Fortunately, there are automation products available to do the scripting for you. One of the best products I've encountered is Network Automation's AutoMate 6.0. Using its drag-and-drop task-building capability, you can automate virtually any task in any business process without writing any code...

Network Automation is listed in the top ten automation companies to watch by Network World.

Network Automation unveiled today at Interop a product company executives say will speed business applications by enabling IT and other managers to quickly apply automation technologies to existing processes - without having to write complicated software code.

The Children's Museum of Science and Technology in Troy, New York, teamed together with 84 West and AutoMate Software to create a one-of-a-kind interactive exhibit that allows kids to create their own weather forecasts.

Using visual design software known as Automate, the interactive weather exhibit allows kids and parents to conduct a live weather forecast in front of a green screen, just like professional weather forecasters do on television.

We have a tool that could make your life easier, a prospect that may induce something akin to ecstasy.

Winning the award in 2004 but taking second place in 2005, Network Automation's AutoMate once again takes the Best Automation/Scheduling Tool award

AutoMate 6 lets you create tasks quickly and on the fly for your Windows computers. If you want the robustness of a full-task scripting program without the hassle of working within a formal programming paradigm, AutoMate 6 is an outstanding tool.

With over 2,700 nurses, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center had to get a handle on scheduling.

Network Automation, Inc., the leader in automation software that streamlines and integrates business processes, today announced that Community Bank & Trust of Florida, a $300 million financial services institution dedicated to personalized customer service, has selected Network Automation's AutoMate to streamline its critical daily processing tasks.

Network Automation's CEO, Dustin Snell, lays out his vision for the future of automation in a podcast from the show floor of Interop 2006.

The key to getting the most from legacy systems and not being tied down by them may be business automation software.

AutoMate6 software has enabled users at Pacific Toxicology Laboratories to automate a variety of time-consuming tasks.

With the holiday season fast approaching, many of us are getting our wish lists ready. If holiday magic could deliver all that we ask for, here's what a scripter's wish list might look like...

Network Automation released AutoMate 6.0, software that lets you automate complex tasks without writing any code.

AutoMate makes job scripting a breeze, and its scheduling and trigger tools are extensive and useful. Just don't look for multiple user support.