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Read the blog: Essential Insights from the Gartner 2024 Critical Capabilities for SOAPs Report

Essential Insights from the Gartner 2024 Critical Capabilities for SOAPs Report

Discover the critical capabilities and use cases identified by Gartner in the 2024 Critical Capabilities for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (SOAPs) report.

What is a Service Orchestration and Automation Platform (SOAP): Six Key Components

Understanding Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (SOAPs)

This article deep dives into Gartner’s SOAP category, with the goal of understanding key differentiating capabilities, a little history, and how it helps enterprises achieve IT orchestration and automation across their business.

Gartner Hype Cycle for I&O 2024

Gartner Hype Cycle for I&O Automation: What's Next in 2024?

The Gartner Hype Cycle for Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) Automation delivers the top trends and innovative strategies — see what's changed in 2024.

Blog How to Deliver Automation as a Service to Your Stakeholders

How to Deliver Automation as a Service to Your Stakeholders

Learn how to deliver automation as a service (AaaS), its benefits, and the role of automation architects in streamlining self-service for all users.

Read the blog post: IT Process Automation Made Simple

IT Process Automation Made Simple

Business today happens a lot faster than human beings can process it. Read this article to learn how we help businesses manage their IT Process Automation workloads by automating background processes and combating the complexity of today’s heterogeneous IT environments.

Top 5 Reasons to Replace Tidal Workload Automation

Tidal Workload Automation (WLA) has become stagnant and its future is uncertain. Read this article and learn how to save money and stress with Universal Automation Center. Discover the alternative.

Workload Orchestration Versus Workload Automation

Workload Orchestration vs Workload Automation — and Why it Matters

Workload automation is still a vital part of the IT ecosystem. However, workload orchestration elevates it by connecting hybrid IT environments, breaking down data silos, and enabling advanced ML operations.

Modernize Mainframe Applications: 6 Strategies to Get it Done

Modernize Mainframe Applications: Strategies to Get it Done

Take a look at the benefits of mainframe modernization and explore six strategies to consider when you modernize your existing legacy mainframe applications.

Read the blog: Automation Trends 2024: Top Takeaways from the Annual Global State of IT Automation Report

Automation Trends 2024: Top Takeaways from the Annual Global State of IT Automation Report

The results are in! IT Ops, DevOps, DataOps, CloudOps, PlatformOps, and ITSM pros worldwide share their thoughts on automation and orchestration in the 2024 Global State of IT Automation report.

Read the blog post: 6 Top Trends in Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) for 2024

6 Top Trends in Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) for 2024

2024's top trends in infrastructure and operations (I&O), including genAI, IT orchestration, MLOps, and self-service automation.

Read the blog post: 5 Ways Mainframe Automation Can Transform Your Business Today

5 Ways Mainframe Automation Can Transform Your Business Today

Mainframes are the workhorses of the business world, processing critical transactions and data for many of the world's largest organizations. However, they can also be complex and time-consuming to manage. That's where mainframe automation comes in.

Read the blog post now: What is an Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration (IA&O) Tool?

What are Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration Tools?

Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration tools help manage the provisioning, deployment, and operation of infrastructure resources. Using IA&O, ITOps teams achieve scale, enable self-service to the business, and standardize consumption of cloud, on-premise, and edge computer resources.

Read the blog post now: Top IT Automation Trends in 2024 and Beyond

Top IT Automation Trends in 2024: Hyperfocus on Agility and Efficiency

Few of our top nine IT automation trends are wholly new for 2024. Rather, most automation priorities are taking on a new urgency as enterprises demand faster, better, and more efficient digital products and services.

Read the blog post now: The Stonebranch Top 10: Most Popular IT Automation Research, Success Stories, Reports, and More from 2023

The Stonebranch Top 10: Most Popular IT Automation Research, Success Stories, Reports, and More from 2023

Gain valuable insights from 2023’s most popular research and reports — and use them as your springboard for IT automation success in 2024!

Read the blog and watch now: 9 One-Minute Insights from Stonebranch Online 2023

9 One-Minute Insights from Stonebranch Online 2023

These nine videos from Stonebranch Online 2023 cover everything from observability to digital transformation — in little more than a minute each.

Read all about it! What's New in UAC Version 7.5

What's New in UAC Version 7.5

Stonebranch UAC 7.5 (Universal Automation Center 7.5) unlocks observability data, adds additional event-based trigger options, and makes it easy for SAP business users to automate processes.

Orchestrate the Universe! Read the Stonebranch Online 2023 session overview

Orchestrate Your Universe with Stonebranch Online 2023

Over the course of 11 sessions, industry experts lead a journey through the universe of IT automation, service orchestration, and digital transformation.

Read the Blog Post: What is IT Automation?

What is IT Automation and How is it Changing?

There have been many changes to automation tools over the years. Explore what IT automation is, how it’s changed, and the many benefits it provides to both IT and business users across the enterprise.