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Robi's Universal Guide to Cloud Automation

Universal Guide to Cloud Automation

Everything you need to know about automation and orchestration in multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, and hybrid IT environments.

Blog Data Pipeline Orchestration for DataOps Watch video

Data Pipeline Orchestration for DataOps – Explainer Video

Keep the flow of data secure, centrally governed, and fully automated with end-to-end orchestration.

6 Cloud Automation Use Cases Every IT Pro Should Know

6 Cloud Automation Use Cases Every IT Pro Should Know

Learn how enterprises are centrally automating and orchestrating cloud, multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, and containerized microservices.

What's New in Universal Automation Center V7.2

3 Big Updates You’ll Love in Universal Automation Center V7.2

UAC’s latest release offers a new modern interface, universal monitors, and enhancements to jobs-as-code, workflow creation, security, integrations, and more. These are our three favorites.

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?

Understanding Job Scheduling and Its Evolution

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.

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.

What is DataOps and How is it Different than DevOps?

DataOps vs DevOps: Key Differences and Insights

Now more than ever, data is crucial to businesses being able to make informed decisions and measure the impact of those decisions. DataOps treats data as a strategic asset to harness its exponential potential.

Stonebranch Online 2021 - Sept 28 through Oct 28

Sneak Peek: Stonebranch Online 2021 Educational Forum

It’s almost here! Join us for a month-long series of educational webinars dedicated to empowering IT automation professionals with an insightful lineup of industry trends, customer success stories, and UAC solution demos.

Bringing RPA and WLA Together

Bringing RPA and WLA Together

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

Most Digital Transformations Fail. What does it take to succeed?

Most Digital Transformations Fail. How to Succeed?

Discover how a modern service orchestration and automation platform (SOAP) can be a core enabler for your digital transformation.