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Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. Acquires JSCAPE

MORRISTOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Advanced Systems Concepts Inc. (ASCI), creators of industry-leading workflow automation software ActiveBatch, today...

Advanced Systems Concepts Inc. Launches First Self-Healing Platform of Its Kind, Simplifying Workload Automation

New Super REST API Adapter takes ActiveBatch API to the next level. Company acquires JSCAPE to enable organizations to automate even more business pro...

ASCI Raises Strategic Investment to Accelerate Expansion of Leading Workload Automation Solution, ActiveBatch®

MORRISTOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc ("ASCI") announced today that it has secured a strategic investment from T...

ActiveBatch To Be Featured at Major Global IT Conferences; Offers Operational Peace of Mind Through Automation

MORRISTOWN, N.J., Oct. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. (ASCI) hits the road to showcase intelligent autom...

Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. Announces ActiveBatch Certification Program as IT Automation Continues to Drive Business Growth

New and innovative role-based training program offers automation certification to IT professionals

MORRISTOWN, N.J., Aug. 21, 2019&n...

Reducing Data Breaches: Can IT Automation Narrow the Attack Surface?

Organizations, enterprises, and governments spend billions of dollars each year securing their systems against data breaches. So why has the number of...

Newest Release of ActiveBatch Focuses on Cybersecurity in the IT Automation Environment

Attacks on digital systems have become smarter and data breaches more sophisticated. As a result, cybersecurity has gained considerable traction wi...

Latest release of ActiveBatch focuses on security for IT automation

In an effort to help organizations more effectively secure their systems, Advanced Systems Concepts (ASCI) has added new security enhancements to its...

Artificial Intelligence Research and Application Advancement

Using robotic processes automation, businesses can take advantage of methods and scripts to automate tasks carried out by humans and support the organ...

How IT automation can help fill tech talent gaps

At the 2018 Gartner Symposium, Frank Melchiorre of Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. explained the benefits of enterprise IT automation.

ActiveBatch® Version 12 Brings Innovative Automation Capabilities, Machine Learning, and Seamless Scalability to Dynamic, Hybrid, Cross-Platform IT Environments

MORRISTOWN, N.J., Nov. 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. (ASCI) today announced the release of Version 12 of its...

Executive Insights on the Current and Future State of Databases

To gather insights on the current and future state of the database ecosystem, we talked to IT executives from 22 companies about how their clients are...

Advanced Systems Concepts Announces Launch of ActiveBatch Academy Empowering Users to Stay Ahead of Growing IT Resources Gap

MORRISTOWN, N.J., Oct. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Known for Redefining IT Automation,  Read More

Advanced Systems Concepts Sponsors U.S. and European Gartner Symposia; Showcasing the Power of Machine Learning in IT Automation for Seamless Scalability in Any Infrastructure Environment

MORRISTOWN, N.J., Oct. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. (ASCI), is showcasing ActiveBatch Version 12's exci...

DZone Research: The Changing Database Ecosystem

The biggest changes in the database ecosystem have been the cloud and the proliferation of databases to handle very specific business needs.

Smart IT Automation Can Help Reduce the IT Resources Gap

As computing resources proliferate, finding properly skilled IT staff is more important than ever. But with a strong economy and low unemployment, plu...

Informatica World 2018 Breakout Session to Feature Mediacom’s Ralph Paparo Discussing His Experience Using ActiveBatch for Data Warehouse Control and Agility

Intelligent disruptors are heading to Informatica World 2018 to connect with industry leaders, experts, and professionals at the forefront of data-dri...

Overcome Six Obstacles to Efficient Data Center Automation

Solving automation problems with specific automation tools is a fragmented approach which can be described as elemental. The more efficient approach i...

What’s next in IT automation: 6 trends to watch

For all of the buzz around machine (and the overlapping phrase “self-learning systems”), it’s still very early days for...

Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. Introduces New ActiveBatch Capabilities to Further Expand Automation Options for Customers

Positive feedback from ASCI's Support Survey of 3000 customers incorporated into product development

Why Leading Hospitals Are Practicing IT Automation

Hospitals and other healthcare organizations are reaping the benefits of IT Automation for a number of business, operational and data management proce...

Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. Once Again Named "Value Leader" in Enterprise Management Associates Workload Automation Report

MORRISTOWN, N.J., Feb. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/

More devices, more problems? Not with IT Automation

IT automation enables companies to maintain a centralised point of control over their technologies, which simplifies management and provides increased...

The Best Way for Dev and Ops to Collaborate

In order to best facilitate collaboration between Dev and Ops teams, organizations must leverage IT automation. IT automation minimizes downtime durin...

Taking a systematic approach – why it matters in the world of automation

Big data, artificial intelligence, internet of things, virtual reality – all these topics have dominated the technology headlines in the first h...

Dispose of DevOps Delays with IT Automation

By definition, DevOps encourages communication and collaboration between development and operations teams – but if not done properly, it can cau...

How to Capitalize on Big Data with IT Automation

In this special guest feature, Jim Manias, Vice President at Advanced Systems Concepts, discusses how organizations can best capitalize on the...

Game-Changing Technologies Fueling the Data-Driven Enterprise

It’s been long acknowledged that data is the most precious commodity of the 21st-century business, and that all efforts and resources need to be...

Making Magic With Ai + Internet of Things

Ai or Cognitive computing is a combination of technologies. There are three core that are shaping the NOW: Data Mining, Pattern Recognition and Natura...

Streamlining DevOps With IT Automation

Choosing the right processes to automate and incorporating automation right from the beginning eases and speeds up DevOps adoption in IT.

Why Batch Processing Is Still Critical to IT Operations

Advanced Systems Concepts has just launched ActiveBatch V11. It expands ActiveBatch's support of the Hadoop ecosystem and adds new features to imp...

Advanced Systems Concepts Seeks to Automate Real-Time Data Access

Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. (ASCI) released an update to its flagship platform that adds support for Hadoop ecosystem as well as workflow performa...

ASCI Automates Big Data Workflows

Moving massive amounts of data around the enterprise in support of Big Data projects is one of the most painstaking tasks an IT organization can be as...

Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. Delivers Faster Access to Big Data with New Automation Capabilities

ActiveBatch Version 11 simplifies Hadoop integration, consolidates workload, IT process and big data automation within a sing...

Slow growth ahead for IT spending, Gartner says

Global spending on tech will be more or less flat this year and not much better through 2020

Human error in IT: a growing but preventable issue

While many assume most IT issues that impact mission-critical services are the result of a catastrophic technology failure, they are often due to a hu...

Let's Talk About IT Automation

IT departments are often faced with similar challenges: stagnant budgets and a lack of qualified applicants. Unfortunately, despite the lack of resour...

Automation in the Energy Industry

Automation should be the prologue to a discussion whenever a new process is introduced, not a postscript. This fundamental shift in thinking is critic...

The Importance of an Architectural Approach to IT Automation

Organizations should take a wide view approach to automation strategies in order to get the most out of their systems.

You Probably Should Have Majored in Computer Science

If you’re looking for a college major that gives you an incredible job outlook, we have two words for you: computer science.  There are...

Market Consolidation: Who Are the Winners and Losers?

What happens when you learn that a product you are using has been “bought out”?  There are certain questions that can be asked and re...

Automation: Achieving Faster Rollouts with Better Accuracy

At the recent Symposium/ITxpo, Gartner shared a list of technologies and trends that will be important for organizations to embrace and prepare for in...

Trending on #bimodalIT and its ripple effects

Bimodal IT doesn't rely on just one coding construct, one IT operations tool or one platform. The shift to treating applications in entirely diffe...

Overcoming the Six Main Obstacles to Data Center Performance - Data Center Journal

​Data centers are the metropolises of the computing world. Like cities, they change over time—and much of what exists today is directly affected...

7 deadly career mistakes developers make - InfoWorld

Advanced Systems Concept's Director of Engineering, Mehul Amin, shares his thoughts with InfoWorld on how developers can achieve career success an...

Why IT Automation Is Key for the Internet of Things - RT Insights

Experts predict up to 30 billion autonomous devices will be connected via the Internet by 2020. ​If these well-considered predictions prove correct, s...

New tools allow enterprises to manage and coordinate virtually every aspect of IT - TechWorld

While workload automation tools have been around for years, the debut of intelligent automation is a major shift that allows enterprises to manage and...

How to use intelligent automation to drive better cloud resource management - NetworkWorld

Cloud computing has dramatically improved scalability, accessibility and flexibility, but low costs and on-demand av...

IT Automation Will Ultimately Determine IoT Success - IoT Evolution

The numbers associated with the IoT revolution are growing to staggering proportions. Experts predict up to 30 billion autonomous devices will be conn...

"Active" and Aware - DC Velocity

For ActiveBatch customer, XTRA Lease, managing disparate data systems and properly interfacing with customers are critical to tracking thousands of...

Slash Job Scheduler Setup Work by Half - ITJungle

IT Jungle's Alex Woodie takes a look at Advanced Systems Concepts' newest ActiveBatch Version 10 release, and examines its ability to automate...

Closing the IT Resources Gap with IT Automation - TMCnet

This IT resources gap – the difference between the number of computing resources and the IT staff required to manage them – has become one...

10 Ways Software Development Teams Can Master the Art of Releasing Upgrades - IT Business Edge

IT Business Edge's Don Tennant speaks with ASCI Vice President, Jim Manias, about how companies can improve their software release processes. ...

Improving Data Agility and Dealing With the Pace of IT Change - Information Management

Organizations are struggling with ways to manage the vast amounts of incoming data in order to derive meaningful insight from it all- so how can busin...

Three Factors For 'Bimodal' IT: Automation, Automation And Automation - Forbes

Forbes Contributing Writer Adrian Bridgwater takes a look at bimodal IT and why automation solutions like ActiveBatch are uniquely designed to meet th...

IT automation in the wild - CIO.com

‘IT automation’ seems to mean different things to different people. Here’s a look at how IT automation is...

Advanced Systems Concepts Upgrades Workload Automation Tool - Database Trends & Applications

Database Trends & Applications discusses how ActiveBatch Version 10 contains multiple features that...

Automating Onboarding and Offboarding Processes - Baseline

To keep up with the increasing demands the onboarding and offboarding processes placed on the IT department...

New products of the week 2.1.2016 - NetworkWorld

NetworkWorld's roundup of intriguing new products includes Advanced Systems Concepts' ActiveBatch Version 10...

Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. Addresses IT’s Growing Need For Agility with Release of ActiveBatch Version 10 - DevOps.com

Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. (ASCI) today announced the availability of ActiveBatch Version 10...

How One Energy Producer Uses IT Workload Automation to Solve Energy Pricing Challenges - AltEnergyMag

Europe's largest renewable energy producer, Statkraft, uses ActiveBatch Workload Automation to...

Advanced Systems Concepts Debuts ActiveBatch Version 10 - eWeek

Nathan Eddy of eWeek discusses the new capabilities and features of ActiveBatch V10 that are redefining...

10 Surprising Ways Automation Can Simplify IT - IT Business Edge

You're not imagining it: IT is getting more complex. Things are moving faster, infrastructure is diversifying, and the list of critical businesses...

Statkraft Uses Workload Automation Software To Assist In Clean Energy Modeling - Clean Technica

Statkraft, Europe’s largest renewable energy producer, was able to redefine its energy forecasting operations when it automated its weather

4 Things Financial Institutions Don’t Realize They Can Automate - Credit Union Times

Financial IT people aren’t imagining things: Their jobs are definitely getting tougher. W...

Strategy for Cloud Automation - The Virtualization Practice

IT Veteran and Virtualization Practice journalist Stephen Beaver comments on Advanced Systems C...

Learning from the NYSE & United Tech Outages: Five Things to Ask Yourself About IT Automation - IT Briefcase

While hackers and cyber-security threats grab the headlines, there is a sleeping giant among us...

Five Surprising Ways Automation Can Help Your Enterprise - vmblog

When people think of the word "automation", they picture late-night cron jobs, bulk d...

How Workload Automation can Bring DevOps up to Speed - InformationAge

By automating laborious and time-consuming tasks, DevOps engineers are using workload automatio...

Migrating From a Legacy Scheduler?: 5 Things You Need to Know - HR.com

When approaching a move away from a legacy scheduler, most organizations are concerned with the...