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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.

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.

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.

Convert mainframe-centric schedulers to a modern service orchestration and automation platform.

These nine videos from Stonebranch Online 2023 cover everything from observability to digital transformation — in little more than a minute each.

Observability enhances traditional monitoring by providing actionable insights based on telemetry data from disparate, loosely connected sources. Learn how to tap into telemetry data from your workload automation and orchestration solutions.

Stonebranch UAC 7.5 (Universal Automation Center 7.5) unlocks observability data, adds additional event-based trigger options, and makes it easy for SAP business users to automate processes.

Centralize control, improve error handling, and more — level-up your DataStage job scheduler by connecting it to a DataOps orchestrator like the Stonebranch Universal Automation Center (UAC).

Explore how to automate the data center, including its traditional four-wall setup and its evolved ecosystem of physical, virtualized, and public cloud-based systems. 

Self service automation can help break down organizational silos to boost employee efficiency. Check out these best practices to help your help desk reduce the burden of routine business requests.

Do more in 7.4! The latest release of Universal Automation Center (UAC) offers many new features and enhancements, including workload simulations, jobs-as-code, and outbound webhooks.

Jobs-as-code simplifies job configuration management through version control. Automation rules can be managed like any other code, making it easier to share and collaborate on complex workflows.

How to enable Apache Airflow to use event-based triggers for real-time data pipelines via the API.

Gartner recently released an update to the 2021 Service Orchestration and Automation Platform (SOAP) Market Guide that defined a new category in automation. Read on to learn just how much has changed.

Explore the differences between Workload and Workflow Automation, where they overlap, and how they can support one another.

Though the workload automation (WLA) market is very mature, it’s beginning to exhibit the characteristics of a much younger market.

Automation integrations help extend and future-proof your UAC investment. Here’s how to get started, whether you’re downloading from the Integration Hub or building your own.

Need to share real-time data updates from one application to another? Webhooks are a fast and easy way to enable event-driven automation.