Real-Time Hybrid IT Automation Blog

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.

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.

IT Ops pros spend an average of 70% of their time on manual tasks. Let's explore 3 ways IT operations automation can help you focus on what's important.

Infrastructure modernization is driven by automation. Explore the benefits of automating your conversion to the cloud and the applications within the cloud.

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. 

Explore the differences between workload automation and runbook automation to help you decide which approach best fits your needs.

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.

When combined with Workload Automation (WLA), Cloud Orchestration is a powerful approach to breaking down platform and application silos. Learn to create real-time data pipelines, run workloads across hybrid environments, and gain management and control of your entire IT operation.

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.

Achieve maximum business value by orchestrating workloads across on-premises, edge, colocation, and cloud infrastructure.

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.

Looking for infrastructure-as-code best practices? Here's how Stonebranch automates new SaaS cloud deployments with Universal Automation Center.