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Are Your SMB Operations Leading or Lagging? Network Automation Outlines the Top 6 IT Pain Points Hindering SMB Growth

4/24/12 • in AutoMate News • 0 comments •

Automation aggregates big data, enhances reporting processes, integrates cloud platforms easily and efficiently; it alleviates pain points by streamlining operations and reducing costs without increasing staff, hours.

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New Classes for AutoMate Online Classroom Training

4/19/12 • by Dallas Li, in AutoMate News • 0 comments •
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New online classroom training courses are now available. You can learn the basics or build upon your current understanding of AutoMate. AutoMate 9 classroom sessions stat May 15. AutoMate BPA Server 9 classroom sessions start July 10.

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Web Interaction Automation: The Task that Keeps on Giving

4/19/12 • by Dallas Li, in Ask an ASE • 0 comments •
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With gathering data off websites becoming a critical part of any organization, being able to automate web site interaction is vital. Automation can handle important yet routine tasks, like logging into a website to run reports, to free up your time for other, more important projects.

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Automating FTP Encrypted Files Becomes a Transatlantic Effort -- Part II

4/19/12 • by Donna Horton, in Ask an ASE • 0 comments •
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Here is the step-by-step walkthrough on how multiple companies joined efforts to find a solution for securely transmitting FTP files from offices on the East Coast of the United States to Dublin, Ireland.

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Email Integration and Automation in Customer Relationship Management

4/18/12 • by Jonathan Chan, in Ask an ASE • 0 comments •
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Dynamics CRM delivers an enterprise level of contact record keeping and activity logging that produces excellent sales productivity results. But depending on the amount of email inquiries a company gets per day, they might need to look at outside automation tools to speed up those otherwise manual processes.

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New Webinar Schedule: Automation in the New Frontier

4/17/12 • by Dallas Li, in Automation Strategy • 0 comments •
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Network Automation, Inc. is the mid-market leader in automation software that streamlines and integrates business processes without expensive programming. Join us for a 1 hour demonstration of AutoMate 9, an automation platform with a drag-and-drop development environment and other features that substantially reduce the total cost of the automation lifecycle.

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How is IT Consumerization Affecting Your Business? The Emergence of DIYI

4/16/12 • by Gary Bishop, in CEO Corner • 0 comments •
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Much of the hype of IT consumerization centers around smartphones and tablets, but the potentially deeper institutional change will be felt not from end-point devices and personal-use software, but by consumerized infrastructure and organizational apps and data.

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Automating FTP Encrypted Files Becomes a Transatlantic Effort

3/30/12 • by Donna Horton, in Ask an ASE • 0 comments •
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Multiple companies joined efforts to find a solution for securely transmitting FTP files from offices on the East Coast of the United States to Dublin, Ireland.

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AutoMate™ Web Scraping — A Solution for Murphy's Law of Data Extraction

3/26/12 • by Jonathan Chan, in Ask an ASE • 0 comments •
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In this step-by-step walkthrough of the Web Interactivity Task, learn how to pull all of the information from an HTML table (for this example we will be using Yahoo! Finance), and then write the data into Excel for the evaluation of particular fields.

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NYC Health Care Provider Uses Audit System to Cure Overworked IT Department

3/26/12 • by Dawn Willis, in Success Story • 0 comments •
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Health Plus, who covers more than 300,000 New Yorkers, upgraded from AutoMate to BPA Server after a Network Automation audit service found more than 200 processes that could be automated within their company. By expanding AutoMate to five servers, Health Plus' IT Department saves well over 15 hours a week, which allows them to focus on more strategic activities.

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Cloud Automation with Windows Azure Storage

3/20/12 • by Dallas Li, in Ask an ASE • 0 comments •
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The latest version of AutoMate offers a comprehensive set of new Windows Azure Storage actions supporting BLOB, Table, and Queue storage. As an example, let’s take a look of how to automate uploading a file to BLOB storage in just a few steps.

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March Madness: An Instance of Big Data

3/14/12 • by Gary Bishop, in Automation Strategy • 0 comments •
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With the start of March Madness and office pools needing up-to-date scores, Network Automation takes a look at automating big data, as well as the game results. By setting up an AutoMate task to run in the background of a server to monitor sports site for scores, employees can stay informed without losing productivity.

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The Impact of Windows Server 8 on Automation

3/12/12 • by Graham Taylor, in Automation Strategy • 2 comments •
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Windows Server 8, launched Feb. 29, has a new “metro-style” operating system, yet still has a dependence on non-GUI oriented scripting for enabling automation. Network Automation's CTO, Graham Taylor, talks about how this will effect automation.

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What to do when EXEs, BATs, Scripts, SQL Jobs and Stored Procedures Become Unmanageable

2/23/12 • by Dallas Li, in Ask an ASE • 0 comments •
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Learn how one of our system engineers worked with a nonprofit health insurance organization to feasibly automate all of their manual batch process, including more than 160 batches and more than 80 SQL jobs.

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Martin Gadzinowski, Network Automation VP of Sales and Marketing, Recognized as one of CRN’s 2012 Channel Chiefs

2/22/12 • in AutoMate News • 0 comments •
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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.

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Leap Year Savings on Automation

2/22/12 • by Gary Bishop, in CEO Corner • 0 comments •
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With Leap Year approaching, CEO Gary Bishop talks about tradition: the tradition of Leap Year braking the norms, the tradition of AutoMate delivering strong ROI.

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BPA Server Eliminates Custom VB Code for InfraSource

2/22/12 • by Dawn Willis, in Success Story • 0 comments •
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Prior to discovering Network Automation’s AutoMate BPA Server solution, InfraSource wrote custom code in Visual Basic to extract positive payment data from their Spectrum Forefront accounting application; create a text file with the information; encrypt the text file; and then connect and send the file to the bank’s FTP site. Steve Mayor, Senior Network Engineer, and John Latherow, Applications Development Manager, decided they needed to look for a more efficient and time saving solution to replace their current process.

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AutoMate Your Path to the Cloud: Network Automation Outlines Cloud Automation’s Top 5 Returns on Investment

2/14/12 • in AutoMate News • 0 comments •
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Network Automation, the premier provider of IT and business process automation software, AutoMate 9™, has released its top five returns on investment companies can achieve by automating cloud-based platforms. The benefits address the growing global demand for automated cloud computing services across a multitude of business verticals.

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OCR & Active Directory Automation

2/7/12 • by Donna Horton, in Ask an ASE • 0 comments •
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The new AutoMate and BPA Server 9 OCR actions have the ability to read, extract and convert ANY type of image, such as a bitmap, jpeg, png, pdf or tiff file into text for electronic automation and importation. Our extensive set of Windows Active Directory actions provides creating, modifying and managing any type of Object, User or Group.

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OCR & Active Directory Sample Task

2/7/12 • by Donna Horton, in Task or Workflow of the Month • 0 comments •

The new AutoMate and BPA Server 9 OCR actions have the ability to read, extract and convert ANY type of image, such as a bitmap, jpeg, png, pdf or tiff file into text for electronic automation and importation. Our extensive set of Windows Active Directory actions provides creating, modifying and managing any type of Object, User or Group. This task will read a name, address and telephone number from an application image, and create an Active Directory User with AutoMate's OCR, Active Directory, Loop and Flow Control Actions.

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