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Marketing Provider to Major Supermarket Chains Uses AutoMate to Reduce Operating Costs
Little Rock-based shelf-edge marketing company Vestcom uses AutoMate to reduce data center headcount and reduce errors by 97%.
Preferred Health Professionals Cure for File Transfer, Encryption & More: AutoMate
Preferred Health Professionals, a Kansas City-based PPO network, uses AutoMate to trigger and execute more than 175 tasks ranging from retrieving and decrypting claims to sending those claims to the firm's EDI translator, encrypting and forwarding EDI files to the appropriate parties, and generating and emailing SQL reports. Building each new automation routine typically requires only a few hours of dragging and dropping pre-programmed commands into the proper sequence, eliminating hours of expensive programming and code maintenance while also saving at least 10 hours of IT busywork daily.
Fit to Print Faster: AutoMate Saves Vestcom 200 Hours/Week with Automation
At Vestcom International, raw product data sent by major retailers and brand manufacturers must be scrubbed, organized, converted, and sorted. Until 2006, six or seven employees worked nearly full-time manually launching and directing these processes according to hundreds of business rules. Then Vestcom put the entire series of tasks on auto-pilot with AutoMate Professional, Network Automation's drag-and-drop business process automation platform. This massive reduction in manual intervention led to major efficiency gains, and a 97% reduction in error rates.
Credit Union Banks on AutoMate for Hands-Off Handling of 27 IT Tasks
At First Credit Union in British Columbia, a small software investment aimed at automating a single task has turned into a multi-purpose automation workhorse that is saving well over 15 hours of weekly busywork. Today, First CU uses AutoMate to handle 27 tasks ranging from downloading clearing files to streamlining month-end processing - yielding major efficiency dividends with virtually none of the coding typically required to create automation routines.
Florida Firm Becomes First to Meet a New Reporting Mandate with AutoMate
In 2009, Florida's Monti Eligibility & Denial Solutions (M.E.D.S.) became the first company to comply with a new state mandate requiring that Medicaid-related patient eligibility requests submitted by third-party administrators be aggregated and emailed in a single daily Excel file. The achievement relied heavily on Network Automation's AutoMate no-code business process automation platform, which was used to inexpensively automate processes such as manipulating, compressing and encrypting each day's Excel reports.
Financial Services Firm Credits AutoMate with Saving 400 Hours/Month in IT Tasks
Providing back-end financial services to hundreds of credit unions is an IT-intensive job. For Florida-based PSCU Financial Services, it requires hours of repetitive tasks ranging from monitoring client websites for availability assurance to migrating files from a variety of sources to a central location for client retrieval. Since 2002, managers in several PSCU departments have turned to Network Automation's AutoMate BPA Server to automate these kinds of processes without the time and expense of coding.
30 Minutes of AutoMate-ing Cuts 1 Hour/Day in Infor ERP VISUAL Work for Job Shop
In the quest for IT efficiency, one way to save time is to automate the daily grind of launching and monitoring ERP system utilities. Washington-based job shop Magic Metals, Inc., sought to do just that when it implemented Infor ERP VISUAL in 2008, but the company's busy IT manager did not have time to write custom scripts to enable VISUAL utilities to self-execute. Instead, he turned to the pre-programmed automation capabilities of Network Automation's AutoMate Professional. The software allowed Magic Metals to automate nine essential operations in just 30 minutes of building automation routines in a plain-English, drag-and-drop development environment. The strategy saved Magic Metals four to six weeks of coding work as well as slicing an hour a day off ERP maintenance - all for less than the cost of a modest vacation.
Hospital's Diet Data Duties Get Trimmed 20 Hours a Week with AutoMate BPA Server
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 turned to 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. With AutoMate, Saddleback has reclaimed the time previously spent monitoring the daily flow and operation of its nutrition care and foodservice production facilities. Now other departments are going on the AutoMate 'diet' to trim unnecessary manual processes from their daily workload.
Home & Car Care Products Maker Puts ERP/EDI Reporting & More on Cruise Control with AutoMate
For home and car care products manufacturer Mallory Industries, the road to low-cost automation of everyday business processes began with the deployment of a new ERP system. Twenty-four daily ERP reports needed to be produced from two locations and merged into a custom-built reporting application, requiring four hours of hands-on IT work every day. IT supervisors liberated staff members from that assignment by turning the job over to AutoMate Professional, a drag-and-drop business process automation solution from Network Automation.
Knowledge is Money - Maximize Your Investment with Network Automation Training Services
Anyone who has ever used AutoMate or AutoMate BPA Server knows that the potential number of tasks and business processes is virtually limitless. But surprisingly enough, most Network Automation customers use these extremely powerful products for just a few specific purposes.
