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What business benefits you can gain from JSCAPE MFT

If you’re using RunMyJobs by Redwood, you no doubt recognize the immense need to reliably automate critical business processes. While using RunMyJobs for your intra-organizational workload automations, you could be using additional solutions for B2B data transfers, those files you share between partners and other organizations. If you need to exchange data or files, you should explore JSCAPE by Redwood, a highly secure and reliable managed file transfer (MFT) solution in the Redwood Software family that lets your securely transfer outside your organization and seamlessly integrates with RunMyJobs.

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How to prepare for workload automation migration

Discover the benefits of migrating to a cloud-based workload automation solution like RunMyJobs by Redwood. Learn how to prepare, choose, and optimize the migration process for a successful transition.

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The future of workload automation management

Discover how Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (SOAPs) will revolutionize process automation and digital transformation across various use cases.

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How IT automation with Python can save time and money

Learn more about how RunMyJobs by Redwood can help with IT automation with Python using its REST API adapter and job scheduling capabilities

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RunMyJobs’ S/4HANA integration brings deeper automation to SAP

Global enterprises cannot remain stagnant in this ever-changing technology landscape. Your enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is the backbone of your business, and the competitive marketplace demands your organization’s ERP transform at the rapid pace of digital transformation. For SAP customers, your ERP is responsible for your critical finance, accounting and business activities.  How can your enterprise, with limited IT resources, flex and evolve to manage multiple locations, numerous business units and competing organizational priorities while managing complex SAP workflows? 

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Transform your operations with predictive SLA management

To be successful, today’s global companies have to create consistent, risk-proof operations. For IT teams, their role ensuring business-critical data is transferred and processes are completed is central to achieving this goal. By delivering a secure, reliable automation platform, they ensure that the business units can meet their objectives. Challenges of SLA management Monitoring SLAs is only the first step in creating best-in-class SLA management. RunMyJobs by Redwood takes it to the next level with its predictive SLA management module.

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Hitting a Milestone 50 Billion Automations: What We’ve Learned Along the Way

Redwood’s intelligent automation platform just hit a milestone in our journey to provide the best value with our service. We’ve now executed a collective 50 billion successful automations with our customers!

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The Foundation for Workload Automation Success

As many trivia fans know, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the tallest building in the world. At 163 stories, the skyscraper soars so far into the sky that, from the highest floors, you can still see the sun for several minutes after it sets at ground level. But one of the most awe-inspiring parts of the tower is something you can’t see – its foundation. Built deep into the ground, the concrete and steel foundation supports 450,000 metric tons of weight,

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Introducing Redwood’s New Chief Automation Evangelist: Devin Gharibian-Saki

We at Redwood believe in the transformative power of automation and how our products enable our customers to do what they do better. Our dedication to our customers’ success remains at the forefront of everything we do. In alignment with that commitment, we are proud to announce a new role within the Redwood organization: Chief Automation Evangelist. This role is designed to provide our customers with an advocate specifically focused on accelerating and supporting their automation programs on an executive level.

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Don’t let fear of migration hold you back

As Aristotle once said, “He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” Aristotle may not have imagined his quote being used in a blog about workload automation migration fears, but his words ring true nonetheless. And having a fear of migration is legitimate. What you currently use for automation might be “ok” and working “fine” for now, so why would you risk potential disruptions, increases in cost and all that stress? Because, the right migration partner will help you overcome those fears and gain that glorious freedom Aristotle was talking about.

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What is IT operations (ITOps)?

IT Operations refers to the deployment, management, and servicing of an organization’s IT infrastructure. It’s the central purpose of an organization’s IT department.

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Ditch Your Migration Anxiety. Switching to a Modern WLA Solution Is Easier Than You Think.

It’s not uncommon for IT organizations to have a mixed bag of workload automation (WLA) and scheduling software. In fact, 60% of organizations say they are using more than one WLA tool, according to a new survey of IT and business professionals by industry analysts EMA. This accumulation of WLA tools builds up over the years through mergers, acquisitions, or different departments making their own product selections in isolation. But these siloed islands of automation store up all kinds of technical debt and inefficiencies that impact the business.

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Enterprise job orchestration tools: Choose the right automation solution

As business processes and workflows become more and more complex, the risks associated with inefficiency, errors and sluggishness to adopt modern practices go up dramatically. Fortunately, there is a solution to mitigate those risks — job orchestration. Here, we’ll explain how job orchestration tools can bring your enterprise into the next generation of efficient, reliable, automated IT orchestration solutions. What job orchestration is Simply put, job orchestration is taking disparate business processes throughout your enterprise and bringing their oversight and management together in one location.

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What you need to know about cloud orchestration and automation tools

Forbes reports that the world is projected to store 180 zettabytes of data in the cloud by 2025. This presents a major challenge: Despite the benefits cloud services deliver to myriad benefits to businesses, including reliable scalability, flexibility in providing new services and the ability to quickly deploy new technologies, they drive up the requirements for managing and monitoring lots of processes, tasks and systems.  As adoption of new cloud technologies increased the number of management tasks that had to be performed by IT,

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How to bring your SAP processes into the future with Redwood

Many enterprises that use SAP as their ERP are somewhere in the process of making the big move to S/4HANA. According to ASUG (America’s SAP User Group), 31% of SAP users have made the move, 13% have started and 42% are making plans to move. This migration is a complex undertaking for IT teams but drives and delivers more value for their organizations. As part of this strategic focus on S/4HANA, SAP will end support after December 2024 for many applications that rely on the NetWeaver Java stack — including SAP BPA by Redwood.

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Three Key Takeaways from SAP Sapphire 2022

Last week, I attended SAP Sapphire 2022. It was great to see people face-to-face and connect with colleagues, SAP experts, and customers in Orlando, Florida. The event was really focused on three major themes, speed of business change, supply chain disruption, and sustainability. Below are my key takeaways from the event. A renewed commitment to customer value SAP has been showing increased commitment to helping customers achieve real business value with the RISE with SAP initiative for S/4HANA.

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How GROWMARK consolidated their workload automation with Redwood

Enterprise companies have been using automation tools for decades, starting way back with batch schedulers and overnight processing. Over time, new automation tools have been incorporated into IT environments to meet changing business needs and provide new capabilities. These tools are often added to automate specific types of tasks for individual business units such as finance or HR or automate specific systems, like an ERP. As a result, many enterprise IT teams now find themselves overseeing implementations of multiple automation tools,

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SaaS or on-prem workload automation: Which one is right for your business?

It’s an ongoing challenge to balance immediate IT ecosystem needs against future-proofing your business. Every day, IT leaders are making decisions about which enterprise applications, servers and services should be moved to the cloud, and which will, or must, remain on-prem. When deciding where to deploy workload automation in your business, there are advantages and trade-offs between cloud-based SaaS and on-prem workload automation.  Cloud-native SaaS workload automation can bring significant benefits to an enterprise, including efficiency,

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Make 2022 The Year Of Digital Transformation: Why Automation Is The Key

This article was published in 2022 at a time when the pandemic was accelerating digital transformation for many organizations. Now in 2024, business process automation has come a long way as enterprises continue to evolve cloud strategies and incorporate emerging technologies such as AI. See what automation expert and Redwood Chief Product Officer Abhijit Kakhandiki is predicting for this year in his post Automation ROI, Hyperautomation, Generative AI for Automation — What’s Coming in 2024.

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What Enterprises Need to Know About Workload Automation in 2022 and Beyond

This article was published in 2022 based on then-current findings and insights from Gartner and Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) industry analysts. Visit Redwood Analyst Pieces page to access the most recent resources from industry analysts. Industry analysts like Gartner and Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) have spoken, and the message is clear: workload automation for business processes across an enterprise is absolutely essential in the current workplace landscape. Those who aren’t implementing new functionality and integration capabilities from modern workload automation platforms can expect to rapidly fall behind the competition.

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SOAPs: How workload automation is evolving according to Gartner® Workload Automation Trends

Learn about the evolution of job scheduling and workload automation solutions into Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (SOAPs). Changes to IT environments and processes have continued to skyrocket in recent years. Digital transformation initiatives are now characterized by cloud adoption, workload automation (WLA) and process orchestration across complex ecosystems. As a result, the automation strategies and tools you choose for enterprise use cases must evolve. Traditional approaches and cloud automation solutions can’t meet the needs of the new IT environment and the changing face of business.

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Automation Strategies Must Evolve To Meet Dynamic Business Needs

This article is based in part on our eBook, “The Future Is Now: Why It’s Time To Invest In Workload Automation.” Today’s enterprises are deploying new technologies and realigning them to their business strategies. The goal for most is to improve flexibility as they navigate dynamic challenges and circumstances. This includes adapting to lockdowns and social distancing, evolving consumer expectations and supply chain uncertainty. For most enterprises, this represents a new normal — the world is quickly changing and the organizations that can adapt the quickest are most likely to succeed.

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Modern automation for utilities: How to optimize meter-to-cash and streamline revenue flow

As a modern utility, you face a growing number of challenges — rising consumer expectations, evolving technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing, the always-growing complexities of regulatory compliance and more. But meeting these challenges isn’t impossible. It just requires a commitment to evolve and incorporate the best automation solutions for your particular requirements.  Undertaking an automation initiative for utilities starts with mapping out its unique processes, specifically around meter-to-cash. By optimizing automation of this end-to-end process,

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Break Free from the Tyranny of Time

Clocks can keep your business ticking along in precision as it should, right? It sounds logical, but when it comes to automating business processes in your organization, the clock has significant limitations. Scheduling processes to run at certain times of the day creates a fragile, brittle system that can easily go wrong and disrupt your entire organization. In IT operations, you must guess when a process should begin, and how long it will take, in order to schedule the next one.

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