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DevOps Orchestration Strategies to Achieve True Scale

Learn why leading enterprises are turning to service orchestration and automation platforms (SOAP) to help centrally orchestrate the automation necessary to use DevOps across the entire business.

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What is Hyperautomation, and Where Does Workload Automation Fit?

The meaning of the term “hyperautomation” isn’t obvious from the name. Yet, according to Gartner, hyperautomation is one of the most important strategic technology trends of 2020 and 2021. Learn what it is and why IT Ops should be paying attention. Read this article to learn more.

6 Ways Service Orchestration and Automation Differs from Workload Automation—and Why it Matters

Workload Automation VS Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms—and Why it Matters

Workload automation is still a vital part of IT automation. However, by adding comprehensive orchestration to the picture, enterprises can now automate across hybrid IT environments and an unlimited number of disparate on-premises and cloud systems. In this article we discuss the differences between WLA and SOAP

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Workload Automation is Dead, Long Live Workload Automation!

As organizations began moving to hybrid IT environments, workload automation's future was uncertain. But WLA adapted and is now more important than ever. Learn how workload automation is different from, but still central to, service orchestration and automation.

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How IT Automation’s Next Generation of Platforms Meet Five Important New Demands

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

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Five Key Solutions within the Universal Automation Center Platform

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.

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The Road to DevOps: How IT Automation Unites IT Ops and Developers

DevOps brings together the previously siloed IT Operations and Developer teams, combining them into one IT project taskforce focused on the highest quality output and IT environment management for their organization. In this infographic, discover how IT automation helps IT operations and developers work together to transform IT with the DevOps methodology.

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Create Citizen Automators with Self-Service

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.

Stonebranch Online Mid-Point Highlights

The Stonebranch Online Educational Forum has reached the halfway mark. Here, we take a look back at some of the highlights of the series so far.

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Key Features of Job Scheduling Software and What’s New

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.

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Introducing Stonebranch Online – Overview of this Must-See Virtual Event Series

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.

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SaaS Workload Automation – Benefits and Advantages

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.

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Workload Automation Integrations and What To Look For

Being able to centrally manage automation via integrations is an important way for enterprises to manage disparate and often siloed IT systems. This article defines workload automation integrations, and gives tips around how to future proof your next investment.

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11 Ways to Prepare for A Workload Automation Migration

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

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Workload Automation Case Study: European Bank Modernizes WLA Platform

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.

Static vs Dynamic IT Automation and How They Work Together

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.

What is DevOps, Why Does it Exist, and How Does it Help?

Organizations following the curve of modernization require the adoption of DevOps automation in order to remain competitive and offer the kind of seamless digital business landscape expected. In this blog article, learn how organizations leverage a DevOps model, and how modern workload automation solutions can support a Jobs-as-Code model.

Workload Automation for Hybrid Cloud Management

Learn how IT operations professionals are leveraging workload automation solutions to support their hybrid IT strategies and hybrid cloud management.