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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.
Automating FTP Encrypted Files Becomes a Transatlantic Effort -- Part II
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.
Email Integration and Automation in Customer Relationship Management
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.
Automating FTP Encrypted Files Becomes a Transatlantic Effort
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.
AutoMate™ Web Scraping — A Solution for Murphy's Law of Data Extraction
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.
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.
OCR & Active Directory Automation
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.
Automating Stored Procedures
In a database management system (DBMS), a stored procedure is a set of Structured Query Language (SQL) statements with an assigned name. It is stored in the database in complied form so that it can be easily shared by a number of programs. There are numerous advantages to using Stored Procedures...
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.
Automation--It's Personal!
With the vast majority of people worldwide relying heavily on computer desktops, laptops and servers, a technical problem can majorly impact the course of one’s day, week, month and most importantly, business. At Network Automation, we have created a Business Process Automation (BPA) Workflow to proactively assist in solving a computer and/or server problem by adding resolution automation management, system gathering and reporting for troubleshooting and speedy recovery.
Ask an ASE
Have a problem setting up a FTP task? Need help in figuring out how to automate SharePoint actions? We at Network Automation would like to offer another platform to answer your questions, queries and conundrum in a more in-depth manner.