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Top 10 Take-Aways from the 2022 State of IT Automation Report

Top 10 Take-Aways from the 2022 State of IT Automation Report

The results are in! IT professionals worldwide share their thoughts on automation, orchestration, and digital transformation in the inaugural 2022 State of IT Automation report.

What is a cloud scheduler?

What is a Cloud Scheduler?

Cloud schedulers automate anything from cloud infrastructure to data pipelines. Each cloud service provider offers a scheduler with a unique feature set, but they’re all part of a broader group of cloud automation solutions.

Exploring DevOps Automation Integrations for the UAC

Exploring DevOps Automation Integrations for the UAC

Integration between UAC and development tools helps you automate DevOps processes in your CI/CD pipeline — and control them all from one single pane of glass.

Exploring cloud automation integrations for the UAC

Exploring Cloud Automation Integrations for the UAC

Developing secure integrations between cloud solutions and automation platforms is the key to creating end-to-end cloud orchestration.

Exploring integrations for data pipeline automation - Stonebranch UAC

Exploring Data Pipeline Automation Integrations for the UAC

Integration is key to centralizing control of all automated processes along your data pipeline. Learn to orchestrate the secure flow of data throughout your organization.

What is Job Scheduling? How Has it Evolved?

What is Traditional Job Scheduling? How Has it Evolved?

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.

What is Batch Processing and How Has it Evolved?

What is Batch Processing and How Has it Evolved?

A quick guide to the history of batch processing and its modern alternatives, such as job scheduling, workload automation, and service orchestration.

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Infographic: What's Changed in IT Automation and Orchestration?

Attendees of the 2021 Stonebranch Online virtual summit offered their perspectives on modern IT ecosystems. This infographic summarizes their responses and identifies some key trends facing IT, data, and development teams today.

Meta-Orchestration of Data Pipeline Tools Across Multi-Cloud and Hybrid IT Environments

Meta-Orchestration of Data Pipeline Tools Across Multi-Cloud and Hybrid IT Environments

Recent research from SAPinsider shows that more companies are moving to the cloud. The most successful of them are meta-orchestrating their data management tools across the resulting hybrid IT environments.

The Cloud is Agile. Your IT Automation Tools Should Be Too.

The Cloud is Agile. Your IT Automation Tools Should Be Too.

The cloud is driving change in many ways, including how the industry approaches IT automation. Making automation available on-demand to match the agile nature of cloud service providers is what the business now requires. Learn how modern service orchestration and automation platforms enable central IT teams to fully democratize automation.

Use DataOps to Reduce Data Analytics Cycle Times

Use DataOps to Reduce Data Analytics Cycle Times

DataOps brings together data architects, data scientists, IT managers, and developers — and incorporating dev/test/prod lifecycles into data cycles — to reduce the cycle time of data pipeline development and enables business users to achieve their goals.

Stonebranch Online 2021 - Week 5 Highlights

Stonebranch Online 2021: Week 5 Highlights

The final week of Stonebranch Online 2021 focused on the developer community — first, demonstrating how the UAC enables DevOps strategies for our customers, and second, in a conversation with Stonebranch’s own UAC developers.

What is Workload Automation — and How is it Changing?

What is Workload Automation (WLA)—and How is it Changing?

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.

Stonebranch Online 2021 - Week 4 Highlights

Stonebranch Online 2021: Week 4 Highlights

Week four of Stonebranch Online 2021 is all about doing more with your Stonebranch Universal Automation Center (UAC). First, learn how to connect UAC with any application, platform, or system in your hybrid IT environments. Then, see what’s new in UAC version 7.1.

Stonebranch Online 2021 - Week 3 Highlights

Stonebranch Online 2021: Week 3 Highlights

Week three of Stonebranch Online 2021. A recap of Stonebranch Online, including customer success stories from BP and Makedonski Telecom.

Stonebranch Online 2021 - Week 2 Highlights

Stonebranch Online 2021: Week 2 Highlights

Week two of Stonebranch Online 2021 offered two webinars: one on orchestrating data pipelines and the other on multi-cloud environments. Both sessions featured product demonstrations of the Stonebranch Universal Automation Center (UAC) in action. Keep reading to learn more.

Stonebranch Online 2021 - Week 1 Highlights

Stonebranch Online 2021: Week 1 Highlights

The first week of Stonebranch Online 2021 has come to a close, and with it, two engaging webinars on the state of the IT automation industry and how DataOps methodologies can help orchestrate data pipelines. Scroll down to read the summaries and access the recordings on-demand.

See What's in Store in the New Stonebranch Integration Hub

See What’s in Store in the New Stonebranch Integration Hub

In a world where Orchestration = Integration, the new Stonebranch Integration Hub makes it easier than ever to find pre-built extensions that establish secure integrations with third-party applications and allow you to create seamless workflows across any system in your hybrid IT environment.