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Real users with real opinions offer valuable insight. When evaluating software solutions essential to your organization, the experiences of your peers should weigh heavily. PeerSpot, an enterprise-buying intelligence platform, has assembled a Peer Report to help navigate the advantages of using multiple automation solutions to enhance operational security and efficiency. You can download the report here.
Automation Challenges
Most businesses rely on multiple systems that often operate in silos, creating fragmented workflows that lack standardization, visibility, and proper security controls. These disconnected processes increase error probability and operational inefficiencies while complicating compliance efforts.
Many organizations also struggle to manage high volumes of sensitive data that must move seamlessly across different environments–all while maintaining security and regulatory compliance. Understanding how different automation solutions address these challenges helps organizations develop better automation strategies.
Automate: Beyond Simple Task Automation
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) focuses on automating repetitive, rule-based tasks typically performed by humans. Automate demonstrates how RPA solutions streamline operations through intuitive interfaces.
"The best feature of Automate is its ease of use, which is a major selling point. It has a drag-and-drop interface, so bots can be quickly deployed. This means implementation time is relatively short, making it an even more attractive option," explains Vinayak Hariharan, Robotic Process Automation Developer at Bulwark Technologies L.L.C.
The accessibility allows for wider adoption across organizations, enabling both technical and non-technical users to participate in automation initiatives. This democratization of automation accelerates digital transformation efforts.
JAMS: Automating Complex IT Processes
While RPA typically addresses front-end business processes, workload automation solutions focus on back-end IT processes and job scheduling. Workload automation from JAMS executes workloads on time and in the correct sequence, reducing manual oversight, and improving operational reliability.
The transition from homegrown or legacy scheduling systems to JAMS often yields immediate benefits. Swadhin Pattnaik, Manager of Application Development and Integrations at a large manufacturing company, shares their experience: "We had a homegrown SFTP solution that required updates whenever we wanted to do something new, so we switched from a manual SFTP method to an automated MFT system. It has helped us a lot because of the automated monitoring and alert system. It sends emails to users when jobs end or fail."
Event-based job scheduling from JAMS triggers processes based on predefined conditions rather than fixed schedules. This event-based capability creates more responsive and efficient IT operations than time-based scheduling.
GoAnywhere MFT: Securing Sensitive Data Exchanges
Organizations handling sensitive data face obstacles ensuring secure, compliant file transfers. GoAnywhere MFT centralizes and standardizes file transfer operations while enhancing security and compliance capabilities.
A unified approach to file transfer management reduces security risks. Centralization also helps organizations overcome the fragmentation that occurs when different departments use various methods for file transfers. An IT & Security Manager at a manufacturing company explains their rationale: "By implementing this solution, we wanted to have a centralized place for all our file-transferring needs because previously, there were too many ways. It was done by email. It was done through FTP. Everyone was trying to find their own solution. This way, we could centralize it and make sure that everyone is using the same tool."
GoAnywhere MFT includes workflow management capabilities that automate and standardize file transfers across different systems. These capabilities enforce security policies, reduce human error, and provide audit trails necessary for regulatory compliance.
Automation Solution Integration
While each automation category offers distinct benefits, the most effective automation strategies leverage integration between complementary solutions. This integrated approach creates a more cohesive automation ecosystem that can address a broader range of business processes.
Organizations increasingly recognize the value of using multiple automation solutions in concert. Alejandro Parro Jr, Presales Engineer at Bridgeway Communication System, Inc., notes this trend: "We recommend JAMS to all our existing clients. We have 10 to 15 GoAnywhere MFT users, but by the year's end, I expect to demo JAMS to at least half of our current base so they can see how powerful this solution is. They can have GoAnywhere for their file transfers and JAMS for their workflow automation."
Conclusion
Automation solutions play an increasingly crucial role in maintaining efficiency, security, and compliance. The experiences of organizations implementing these automation solutions show that automation isn't merely about reducing manual tasks. Rather, it's about creating more resilient, adaptable operational environments that can respond effectively to changing business requirements.
Learn more about Automate, JAMS, and GoAnywhere by reading our newest Peer Report.