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Automate Streamlines Lottery Operations and Reporting in Louisiana

Louisiana Lottery Corporation was created in 1991 by the Louisiana state legislature with the idea of generating revenue without increasing taxes. Its mission is to organize, manage, and oversee the operations which support the Louisiana Lottery. Responsibilities entail all collections, accounting, auditing, reporting, and support for the thousands of retailers who sell lottery tickets for games...
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Robotic Process Automation Case Study: Automate Integrates Critical Applications for a Major Medical Center

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has the challenge of staffing and managing thousands of nurses busy delivering top-notch patient care. To manage this complexity, MD Anderson relies on three critical applications: a human resource system by PeopleSoft, a time and attendance system by Kronos, and a staffing system by Per-Se's ANSOS One-Staff. These three applications (with their...
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Automate Saves Vestcom 200 Hours per Week with GUI Automation

Getting sophisticated signage to the store shelf requires a lot of digital heavy lifting. At Vestcom International, raw product data sent by major retailers and brand manufacturers must be scrubbed, organized, converted to PostScript files, and sorted by variables such as tag type and store location before being transmitted to 10 company production facilities around the country for printing and...
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Automate Eliminates SYSPRO Night Duty for Lab Products Manufacturer

The IT team at World Precision Instruments (WPI) wanted to take back the night on behalf of employees responsible for running reports from the company's SYSPRO ERP system. Instead of requiring employees to manually trigger and generate reports from home at specific hours in a specific sequence on a nightly basis, the company wanted to automate the entire process without investing in custom...
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Financial Group Streamlines Loan Origination with Robotic Process Automation

Aldergrove Financial Group is a community-based credit union in Frazier Valley, British Columbia that provides personal and business banking solutions to its 20,000 members. Formed in 1954 under the original name of Otter Farmers’ Institute Credit Union, Aldergrove has since merged with the Matsqui Credit Union and expanded to five branches.Aldergrove is committed to providing personal,...
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Automate Eliminates Custom Visual Basic Code for InfraSource

InfraSource Services is a fully integrated company providing construction services in gas and electric transmission, gas and electric distribution, telecommunications, and water and wastewater systems. The organization consists of several distinct operating companies strategically located throughout the United States. InfraSource is a single source provider of infrastructure construction services....
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Automating Crystal Reports with Automate Saves 20 Hours per Week for Appliance Distributor

For wholesale appliance distributor Echelon Home Products, generating and distributing reports for four different business divisions used to require at least 20 hours of weekly Crystal Reports work as well as wreak havoc among employees every Monday because of an all-day report-related network slowdown. That changed in 2008 when Echelon plugged into Automate, the robotic process automation (RPA)...
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Pacific Toxicology Laboratories Saves Time with Automate

Pacific Toxicology Laboratories (PacTox), located in Chatsworth, California, is a privately owned company that performs five distinct lab functions under one roof—drug testing, biological monitoring, medical surveillance, therapeutic drug monitoring, and forensic toxicology. PacTox's competitive advantage is its unique ability to provide integrated biological testing services. Clients include...
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Guide

Download “Automation without Alienation”

Automation has the potential to transform the way we work. It allows organizations drive efficiencies, increase reliability, and cut costs. But not everyone is on board with the change. Automation can be frightening to employees who worry about losing their jobs to robots and computers. This white paper from Computing tackles the problem of how to go forward implementing automation while...
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Article

How to Automate Backup & Restore Processes in Automate

By Pat Cameron on Sun, 02/28/2016
In this article we will take a look at the importance of backing up Automate data in order to prevent data loss. We will also learn how to go about backing up remote Automate installations, performing automated backups and achieving data recovery in case data loss occurs despite the best of our efforts and precautions.
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Windows Azure Automation

By Pat Cameron on Thu, 02/25/2016
Cloud computing, cloud storage, cloud database…we all have heard about the “cloud.” Cloud computing has gained tremendous visibility in recent years. According to research firm, Gartner, “By 2012, 80% of Fortune 1000 enterprises will be using some cloud computing services, 20% of business will own no IT assets.” In addition, small businesses are attracted to the small startup costs and lower TCO...
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Article

Data Store Migration Utility

By Pat Cameron on Fri, 03/13/2015
Data migration is the process of transferring data from one hardware or software configuration to another. It can be a standard yet crucial element of IT operations, allowing organizations the ability to maintain the integrity of important data while moving forward to face constantly changing technologies. The downside being that data migration is often times consuming and causes major disruptions as a result of downtime or application performance problems.
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Article

Using Automate to Facilitate SQL Bulk Inserts

By Pat Cameron on Fri, 02/27/2015
Can Automate interact with databases?Yes.Can Automate interact/manipulate files?Yes. With these two questions answered, the inevitable question is next: If Automate can do both of these things, can it also load the content of files into SQL?This question comes up quite often during our consultation calls, so let’s skip the phone call and discuss...
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OCR & Active Directory Automation

By Pat Cameron on Thu, 02/26/2015
In this blog post we will go over how to integrate OCR automation with Active Directory automation for a new hire’s application. We will explore reading a name, address and telephone number from an application image, and creating an Active Directory User with AutoMate’s OCR, Active Directory, Loop and Flow Control Actions.
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Article

Automating Terminal Emulation

By Pat Cameron on Sun, 03/03/2013
This month’s sample task demonstrates how to use the Automate Terminal Emulation Actions to interact with a terminal system and import the data from the system into a file.
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Article

AutoMate Bridges the Gap Between Disparate Applications

By Pat Cameron on Tue, 03/08/2011
Automate from Fortra provides application security, streamlined communication including sending emails and text messages to IT regarding successful or failed tasks, error handling, and flexibility and versatility via its highly coveted development interface (no programming or scripting needed).
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mySQL and the SQL Query Action

Mon, 11/20/2006
Automate can easily interact with a mySQL server and its associated databases through the SQL Query and SQL Stored Procedure actions. The document explains how to setup a mySQL data source connection through Automate that can be used to run queries against a mySQL database.
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