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Web Interaction Automation: The Task that Keeps on Giving
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.
New Classes for AutoMate Online Classroom Training
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.
New Webinar Schedule: Automation in the New Frontier
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.
Cloud Automation with Windows Azure Storage
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.
What to do when EXEs, BATs, Scripts, SQL Jobs and Stored Procedures Become Unmanageable
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.
AutoMate Online Classroom Training
Network Automation will now be offering four online classroom training courses. You can learn the basics or build upon your current understanding of AutoMate.
Automate SharePoint Uploads
Here's the dilemma: You need to synchronize a set of files from a network share to a SharePoint team site on a daily basis, but these files are not just going into one SharePoint document library. You have to evaluate each of their file names, look up their SharePoint destinations from a SQL database table, and upload each of them to the appropriate SharePoint library.
Get @Mentions Tweets and Populate to Excel
This sample task connects to your personal or company Twitter account, reads all tweets in the @Mentions tab, populates them in an Excel spreadsheet by Date Created, Twitter Message, and Twitter User, and sends an email notification with an Excel attachment. This task allows you to automate the monitoring of all activities related to your Twitter account on a regular basis without having to logon to Twitter or manually parse through large volumes of data.
Archive Files Older Than 30 Days
This sample task will loop through files in a folder and archive all files older than 30 days. It uses the "FileDateTime" function, which returns the last modified date and time of a file, as well as the "DateDiff" function, which returns the number of intervals between two dates.
Online Demonstrations and Implementation Services
Welcome to the World of AutoMateWe at Network Automation understand that companies don"t always have the resources or time to learn and apply new software. That"s why we offer a line of services that provide customers with an introduction to our product and their uses. Even if you have some experience with AutoMate, it can still be overwhelming to implement a new product in an organization"s existing infrastructure.
Tutorial - Interacting with a Drop-Down Menu
BPA Server 7 and AutoMate 6 Professional are ideal tools for automating the procedure of interacting with controls available in a webpage, application, or other type of interface.
Tutorial - Join Us on a Tour of the AutoMate User Resource Center
The User Resource Center (URC) is the main portal to Technical Support, AutoMate news, and Resources for AutoMate 6 and AutoMate BPA Server 7. This tutorial will show you how to access the URC on our website to find answers to your technical questions and connect with other AutoMate users like you.
Training: New Features of AutoMate BPA Server 7
From the previous AutoMate Training, we had an overview of our newest product: AutoMate BPA Server 7. In this issue of AutoMate Training, we will look at AutoMate BPA Server 7's new features and its differences from AutoMate 6 more in depth.To start off, let's look at the most significant difference from AutoMate 6 - the new architecture.
AutoMate Training: An Introduction to AutoMate BPA Server 7
This module introduces our newest product, AutoMate BPA Server 7, and demonstrates some of its powerful features. AutoMate BPA Server 7 is a major development in automation across multi-machine. Building on the foundation of the award-winning AutoMate 6 platform, AutoMate BPA Server 7 offers more power and features to automate business processes without writing code.
Looping and Sending E-mails from a List
Looping is one of the powerful action groups of AutoMate. Building upon the previous module, we will continue with the looping concept. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to read each line of data from a list, then each item from the line until the end of the file. After gathering the data from the file, we will use AutoMate's Send E-mail action to send out an e-mail.
AutoMate Tutorial: Looping with Excel
Microsoft Office Excel is a very popular spreadsheet application and is widely used in the office for data reports and analyses. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to read each row of data from an Excel workbook until the end of the file. The task will utilize AutoMate's built-in Excel and Loop actions. We will also explore the use of an expression further in this tutorial.
AutoMate Tutorial: Terminal Emulation
AutoMate's built-in terminal actions are going to be introduced in this tutorial. Using the terminal actions, legacy systems can be automated in the background without the use of third-party software. This tutorial will demonstrate how to create an automated task to log on, send and get text from a Linux machine or any other non-Windows machine.
New AutoMate Tutorial: Download Stock File from Web
Building upon the actions introduced from the previous tutorial, we are going to create an AutoMate task to open a webpage, search for a stock symbol, and download the stock report. This tutorial will demonstrate how to use various AutoMate actions to interact with a web browser including the time it takes a new webpage to load.
AutoMate Tutorial - Web Login
Logging into a secured web account to download files or to retrieve data is a common process in today's world. This tutorial will demonstrate how to log in to a web account automatically by using the AutoMate's Interactivity and Internet actions.
Tutorial: SQL Query a CSV File
This tutorial will introduce a new action, SQL Query and demonstrate how AutoMate can retrieve and make use of the information from databases, or a CSV file in this example. A CSV file is also known as a comma separated values file, which has data fields separated by commas and records separated by new lines.