Real-Time Hybrid IT Automation Blog

Top nine IT automation trends for 2021 and how they support enterprise strategies for more digital products and services.

IT automation changes fast: WLA evolves into SOAP. Everything-as-code transforms DevOps. The scope of hybrid IT continues to expand. Stonebranch is committed to providing educational resources that help I&O leaders keep up with a dizzying pace of change.

IT Automation’s evolution supports five important new end-user demands. Learn what they are and how enterprises are adapting.

What does the Universal Automation Center platform really do? Hint, way more than job scheduling. This primer is for anybody interested in taking full advantage of the platform’s powerful real-time hybrid IT orchestration and automation capabilities.

Workload automation solutions have successfully expanded their capabilities by harnessing the power of integrations. As organizations look to increase productivity and efficiency, enabling business users with self-service IT automation via upstream integrations is becoming central to their IT strategy.

Explore how cloud automation is used to orchestrate workloads and data pipelines between applications and platforms. Plus, learn about the various tools and platforms that have changed the market landscape.

IT Automation comes in many flavors. Workflow and Workload automation look, and even sound, very much the same. However, each of them has a unique purpose. Learn how they are different, where they overlap and where there are potential synergies.

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

Job scheduling may not be a new technology. However, scheduling software has dramatically changed along with the evolution of IT. Modern updates include supporting organizations by proactively reducing errors, offering a single point of visibility and control, improving ease-of-use for all kinds of end users, and expanding into the cloud.

Registration is now open for Stonebranch Online, a virtual education series featuring presentations from prominent customers and Stonebranch executives. Read on to learn about sessions that cover several exciting new Stonebranch features including infrastructure-as-code, jobs-as-code, and how to manage automation across your hybrid IT environment.

Explore the benefits of deploying a workload automation solution via a cloud-based SaaS model. Top reasons include the elimination of infrastructure requirements and the ability to easily upgrade to the latest version.

Learn how to ensure a successful workload automation migration project with a process-driven approach to converting from one solution to another.

Learn how a Dutch Bank automates workloads as part of their mainframe modernization project by replacing IBM TWS/IWS with Stonebranch Universal Automation Center, reducing costs and improving the transparency of their IT processes.

Although some organizations have completely evolved their IT operations using dynamic, event-based workload automation, others utilize both static and Dynamic IT Automation to fulfill their enterprise-wide automation needs. Here we explain how traditional static job scheduling and dynamic workload automation concepts can come together to automate processes across the entire enterprise, regardless of environment.

Read this blog post and learn why workload automation is the best practice for using software to schedule and manage tasks related to business processes and transactions.

Read this blog post about the first evolutionary step after the manual execution of jobs and tasks to learn how enterprise job scheduling has evolved.

A technical how-to written by Colin Cocksedge, Director Product Management at Stonebranch, on how to install external python modules on Universal Agent (UA).

Read this blog post and learn how Workload Automation (WLA) makes use of RPA to perform repetitive processes, freeing up resources for more complex tasks.