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- Automation
- The replacement of manual operations by computerized methods. Office automation refers to integrating clerical tasks such as typing, filing and appointment scheduling. Factory automation refers to computer-driven assembly...
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- Fixing the Pain in Fax and Mail Automation: Discover the hard return in automating these time-intensive tasks
- The modern day world of computing was supposed to bring about the paperless office. But today's office still deals with the manual tasks of faxing and mailing documents through the postal system. These two tasks appear at first blush to be trivial. Need to fax a document?...
- Tags: Automation, Fax
- White papers 2008-09-10
- Seminar: Simple, Affordable Disaster Recovery Automation in the Virtual Datacenter
- Site Recovery Manager is a new product from VMware that integrates directly with the Dell EqualLogic PS Series' Auto-Replication feature. View this on demand webcast to learn more about key elements of this joint solution.
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, EqualLogic, Automation, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Webcasts 2008-08-01
- The real end game in home automation
- We're getting older, the world's getting colder. There aren't going to be enough workers available to care for us when we get into our 70s and 80s. The answer is home automation. Not just to run our TVs, either. But to manage us in our old age. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Game, Marc Fleury, Automation, Home Automation, Medical Device Approval, Healthcare, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Automation Design Canvas (exe)
- Automation Design Canvas enables you to build test automation in minutes vs hours; Shave weeks off your release schedules. No code to write or script to craft. Automation Design Canvas is built from the ground up to support rich Web 2.0 applications. It utilizes an advanced designer surface that makes...
- Tags: Test Automation, Automation, ArtOfTest
- Software downloads 2008-07-17
- Is a wired hospital a better hospital?
- The survey, which covers 2007, is sure to fuel the hype for hospital computing, with vendors quickly following-up with press releases from customers on the list. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Hospital, Automation, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Live Webcast: Simplified Management with IT Automation
- Businesses of all sizes must now contend with complex systems and a variety of business challenges, including regulatory compliance, green computing initiatives, and pressure to reduce IT costs. Add to that the challenges of managing multiple remote networks and an unprecedented level of application integration, and you will quickly begin...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., IT Administration, Webcast, Information Technology, Automation, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts 2008-06-25
- IONA develops beefed up capabilities for financial services, STP automation
- The latest release from the Dublin, Ireland-based IONA includes a comprehensive implementation of SWIFTNet MT Standards Release 2008, a new free online validation service, and new offerings for over-the-counter OTC derivatives processing and payments STP. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Payment, Financial, Financial Service, Iona Technologies, Messaging, Automation, Standards Library, Groupware, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- TimeLive Web Timesheet (exe)
- TimeLive - Web-based time tracking software for timesheet automation, billing automation, expense management, employee attendance automation, project management and task management. Free downloadable and hosted ASP version. Both downloadable and hosted versions are free for 5 users: Fully automated Web timesheet; Project expense management; Fully customizable approval path workflow; Project...
- Tags: Billing, Management, Automation, LiveTecs, Project Management, It Operations, It service Management
- Software downloads 2008-06-16
- Simple, Affordable Disaster Recovery Automation in the Virtualized IT Datacenter
- Quick recovery of operations after a site failure requires major planning and testing, dependent on an infrastructure and recovery plan that can be simply and affordably managed. Virtualized iSCSI SANs are increasingly being chosen for virtual data center deployments because they help simplify storage management and help overcome performance, scalability...
- Tags: iscsi, data center, information technology, dell equallogic, disaster recovery, automation, data centers, storage area networks (SAN), ip storage, storage, network technology, hardware, data management, networking
- Webcasts 2008-06-12
- Sense and respond -- should humans be part of complex event processing?
- Sense and respond -- should humans be part of complex event processing?The problem as I see it is thatcomputers have no sense of magnitude of a problem and human does. Say something as simple as running off payroll checks. To a computer being off a dollar or...
- Tags: automation, complex event processing, Sense-and-Respond
- Discussion threads 2008-05-23
- Did Congressional Budget Office call health IT savings bunk?
- The headline is the Congressional Budget Office says a claim by RAND Corp. the nation will save $77 billion through heavy use of IT in health care is bunk. But that's not the whole story. The CBO, a bipartisan body which helps Congress formulate...
- Tags: Information Technology, Congressional Budget Office, Blog, Health Care, Automation, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- PDF Automation Server (exe)
- PAS can receive PDF documents from multiple sources concurrently, including e-mail, ftp servers and local or network folders. Processes can then be defined independently for each document source to perform a number of different functions on the documents. Finally, PAS can route the original or modified document to multiple destinations,...
- Tags: Adobe PDF, FTP Server, Automation, Qoppa Software, E-mail, Servers, Online Communications, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-05-15
- TechNet Edge Series: Windows 2008 Automation and Alerting Technologies
- Interview with Otto Helweg about some of the things you can do out of the box with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 technologies around management, automation, and alerting. To view the entire video click here.
- Tags: Microsoft TechNet, Automation, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Software, Windows Server 2008
- Videos 2008-04-29
- iMacros Web Automation and Web Testing (exe)
- Automate Web tasks: Check the same sites every day,data upload, online marketing and functional, performance and regression testing of Web sites: Browsing, form filling, clicking, and data extraction can be recorded into an Internet macro. Supports all Web sites, including Flash, Java and Silverlight applets. Includes a command line interface...
- Tags: Web, Automation, Channel Management, Web Site Development, Marketing, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-04-29
- Winn-Dixie Gets Groceries to Customers Faster by Enhancing Workload Automation and Systems Monitoring
- Winn-Dixie operates more than 500 stores across Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia and Mississippi in the USA. With IT playing such a critical role in the retail experience, many of Winn-Dixie's core business processes are subject to stringent Service Level Agreements SLAs. To ensure its systems can meet the service level...
- Tags: Monitoring, Computer Associates International Inc., Automation, Winn-Dixie, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management
- Case studies 2008-04-17
- SmartFrog and Data Centre Automation
- This paper considers the requirements for a solution to the challenges which entail a shift in philosophy from imperative to declarative models for data centres. An important aspect of such a shift is the replacement of workflow as a mechanism for automation. In its place, the paper proposes a declarative...
- Tags: Automation
- White papers 2008-04-17
- Fujitsu Siemens Computers Helps Its Customers to Cut Costs and Boost Efficiency With Greater Automation
- Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European IT infrastructure provider. To ensure a high quality of service and meet the company's growth plans, Fujitsu Siemens Computers needed to provide cost-effective and repeatable solutions that meet the needs of its diverse customer base. Fujitsu deployed CA for its solution, by using...
- Tags: Fujitsu Siemens, Computer Associates International Inc., Automation, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2008-04-09
- BMC buys BladeLogic, eyes data center automation
- BMC said Monday that it will buy BladeLogic, which specializes in automating data centers, for $800 million, or $28 a share. The news comes on the heels of a bevy of data center announcements from HP, which is hoping enterprises go for its data center as a...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Data Center, BladeLogic, Automation, Data Centers, Blade Servers, It Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, It service Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- FlexiteBPMS (exe)
- Flexite is a powerful BPMS Business Process Management Suite and a process-oriented document management system, created to design, automate and improve business processes. Included in the package is a unique method and methodology, which gives the business side full control of the design, deployment and improvement of their own business...
- Tags: Business Process, BPM, Automation, Flexeurope AB, FlexiteBPMS, Flexite, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Software, Finance, Management
- Software downloads 2008-02-20
- Build Automation Tool: r2build (exe)
- R2build system is a tool/framework to establish your daily build(or nightly build, or build automation, or continuous integration system) in a very easy way . It includes, but is not limited to, plug-ins for email notification, FTP, various installer packaging tool, Java/C++/Ant/Nant/.Net/Delphi/C++Builder, and various source control tools. This version is...
- Tags: Tool, Automation, Aurumcube, Productivity, E-mail, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-02-14
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