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Faced with a global pandemic and economic uncertainty, companies are taking a hard look at how they’re doing business. Budgets are getting tighter and resources are being stretched thin as they look for ways to make their processes more efficient and save costs. Companies that had originally opted for homegrown job scheduling software because of Read More

When you’ve had your job scheduling software for a long time, you might have some questions about the way your tool is supported or why the maintenance costs are the way they are. We’ve put together an FAQ to help you understand the situation. Q: What does it mean if my enterprise job scheduling software Read More

The holiday shopping season is great for consumers – it’s full of opportunity, excitement, great deals, and purchases. Retailers, though, can experience undue stress as they try to keep up with ever-rising consumer demands. It’s not just the stores themselves that feel the pressure. During holiday shopping seasons, IT teams must ensure that the company’s Read More

Our engineers discuss automation needs on a daily basis. They perform process evaluations, hold remote training sessions, speak about job scheduling at industry events, and host automation webinars. They know there’s nothing quite as good as being in the same room – when your users and our engineers can share a cup of coffee, communication Read More

Job schedulers are often implemented with a single operational environment for all scheduled jobs. For organizations using native scheduling tools, this usually occurs because maintaining separate test and production environments in those tools is a lot of work. Why take the time and effort to rebuild every job in production after testing it? Unfortunately, putting Read More

Enterprises have a lot on their plate. But it’s not just the number of tasks that keep enterprises busy, it’s the need to keep track of them in a streamlined way. For all companies, the absence of a job scheduling solution inevitably leads to issues with the task of ensuring necessary processes are attended to Read More

When it comes to IT software, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is a popular philosophy. After all, it pays to be cautious about making changes to your production environment. You want to weigh the risks when you replace the systems and applications that keep your business running. But, there’s also a time when Read More

Job Scheduling Unifies Enterprise Computing Systems administrators have always needed some ability to schedule the jobs, workflows, and tasks of the enterprise. Without job schedulers, one would need an army of operators to execute repetitive processes. Even the oldest mainframes included some basic functionality to schedule recurring tasks. Most modern operating systems offer rudimentary scheduling Read More

Whether you’re just starting to think about an automation project or have one already underway, there are significant opportunities for improving processing. Here’s a list of a dozen items you should consider. 12. Automate the process of monitoring the schedule. Are you still manually checking off jobs in a log as they finish? There is Read More

Fortra is leading the pack when it comes to the digital transformation of higher education. That was made even more apparent at Ellucian Live 2019. Our JAMS team caught up with three groups of higher education professionals – those who are looking to centralize Banner processes, those who are looking for an alternative to their Read More