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The Stonebranch Top 10: Most Popular IT Automation Research, Success Stories, Reports, and More from 2024

Discover Stonebranch's top 10 most popular resources: IT automation research materials, blogs, success stories, whitepapers, and videos from 2024.

Read the blog: Optimizing Hybrid IT Environments with Integrated Automation Solutions

Optimizing Hybrid IT Environments with Integrated Automation Solutions

The future of hybrid IT belongs to organizations that can adapt quickly and optimize continuously.

Read the blog | Introducing UAC 7.7: New Capabilities for Enhanced Automation

Introducing UAC 7.7: New Capabilities for Enhanced Automation

Discover the latest updates in Universal Automation Center 7.7, designed to enhance workflow, security, and self-service capabilities in the ever-evolving world of IT automation.

Read the blog: SOAP Insights from the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Report

SOAP Insights from the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Report

Understand the evolving SOAP market, the role of AI and cloud-native architectures, and why Stonebranch is named as a Leader.

Read the Blog Post | Beyond Job Scheduling: The Modern Role of Mainframes in IT Automation

Beyond Job Scheduling: The Modern Role of Mainframes in IT Automation

Successful automation in many large businesses requires the IBM mainframe and hybrid IT to work seamlessly together in order to achieve business outcomes.

Read the blog: Overcome Automation Tool Sprawl and Unlock Efficiency with a SOAP

Overcome Automation Tool Sprawl and Unlock Efficiency with a SOAP

Streamline automation tool sprawl to reduce costs and improve agility — unify siloed tools into a single, integrated solution for your business processes.

Read the blog: Essential Insights from the Gartner 2024 Critical Capabilities for SOAPs Report

Essential Insights from the 2024 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for SOAPs Report

Discover the Critical Capabilities and Use Cases identified by Gartner in the 2024 Critical Capabilities for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (SOAPs) report.

Read the blog post now — DataOps: Redefining Data Management Operations

DataOps: Redefining Data Management Operations

Transform your data management operations with a DataOps orchestration and automation platform like Stonebranch Universal Automation Center.

Gartner Hype Cycle for I&O 2024

Gartner Hype Cycle for I&O Automation: What's Next in 2024?

The Gartner Hype Cycle for Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) Automation delivers the top trends and innovative strategies — see what's changed in 2024.

Read the blog post: ServiceNow IT Automation: Integration with Stonebranch

ServiceNow IT Automation: Integration with Stonebranch

How to orchestrate IT automation processes within ServiceNow using both ServiceNow automation tools and Stonebranch UAC.

Read the blog post: Job Orchestration Made Simple: Streamline Your IT Operations

Job Orchestration Made Simple: Streamline Your IT Operations

Why does IT have to be so complicated? Job orchestration helps you streamline automated tasks and end-to-end processes across the enterprise.

Modernize Mainframe Applications: 6 Strategies to Get it Done

Modernize Mainframe Applications: Strategies to Get it Done

Take a look at the benefits of mainframe modernization and explore six strategies to consider when you modernize your existing legacy mainframe applications.

Read the blog: Automation Trends 2024: Top Takeaways from the Annual Global State of IT Automation Report

Automation Trends 2024: Top Takeaways from the Annual Global State of IT Automation Report

The results are in! IT Ops, DevOps, DataOps, CloudOps, PlatformOps, and ITSM pros worldwide share their thoughts on automation and orchestration in the 2024 Global State of IT Automation report.

Read the blog post: 6 Top Trends in Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) for 2024

6 Top Trends in Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) for 2024

2024's top trends in infrastructure and operations (I&O), including genAI, IT orchestration, MLOps, and self-service automation.

Read the blog post: 5 Ways Mainframe Automation Can Transform Your Business Today

5 Ways Mainframe Automation Can Transform Your Business Today

Mainframes are the workhorses of the business world, processing critical transactions and data for many of the world's largest organizations. However, they can also be complex and time-consuming to manage. That's where mainframe automation comes in.

Read the blog post now: What is an Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration (IA&O) Tool?

What are Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration Tools?

Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration tools help manage the provisioning, deployment, and operation of infrastructure resources. Using IA&O, ITOps teams achieve scale, enable self-service to the business, and standardize consumption of cloud, on-premise, and edge computer resources.

Read the blog post: SAP ERP Integration: Unite Automation Across SAP R/3, NetWeaver, HANA, and Beyond

SAP Automation for NetWeaver, HANA, Fiori and Beyond

Tired of the limitations of SAP job schedulers? Stonebranch UAC offers powerful and flexible SAP ERP integrations that allow you to automate, monitor, and manage SAP R/3, NetWeaver, HANA, Fiori, and XSA processes with ease.

Read the blog post now: Top IT Automation Trends in 2024 and Beyond

Top IT Automation Trends in 2024: Hyperfocus on Agility and Efficiency

Few of our top nine IT automation trends are wholly new for 2024. Rather, most automation priorities are taking on a new urgency as enterprises demand faster, better, and more efficient digital products and services.