Since V11.2, ONE Automation has a cool new feature: Thanks to Zero Downtime Upgrades you can upgrade your Automic System without service interruptions. But this does not mean that you’ll get away without any downtime at all because there‘ s not only Automic Software to be updated. When you upgrade software which is being orchestrated [...]
Last week (November 2 – 4) I was at Automic World in Orlando – and to put it briefly: It was FANTASTIC. It was my second time this year at the Automic World Conference and I can only recommend that every Automic user attend at least one of these conferences each year. You [...]
What? An article on a Friday instead of a Tuesday? What’s going on there? Don’t worry, I’m not sick and anarchy has not broken out in Austria. There is a very simple explanation: Right now I’m at the Automic World in Orlando, and just as this post is being published, I’m giving a presentation on the [...]
Automic’s V12 was introduced on October 4 and brought us several innovations. I have already provided a brief overview of V12 shortly after its publication. In this article I introduce you to my most favorite new feature of V12: the Automic Analytics. As preparation for my explanations in this article, I recommend you to watch the following [...]
This article makes me a bit nostalgic: In May 2011, it was only the fourth article in the AutomicBlog (called UC4-Blog at that time). And in spite of its age in 2015, it was still among the TOP 10 articles with the highest number of readers per month. It had been one of my customers who [...]
Maybe, you've already heard it: I am working hard to get an online training ready and done for you. It will be published on my website and will give you a possibility to enjoy workshops and lessons about our favorite automation system without having to visit a workshop. But I'll tell you more about this another [...]
The Automic Engine V12 has just been released and introduced, and I immediately installed it to take a look at it. I’m going to briefly introduce you to the most important innovations. I’m also going to deal with a few selected themes in detail in articles to be published in the next few weeks. Today [...]
Have you ever been to Vienna in the time before Christmas? Sure, the city is always worth visiting. But I think it's particularly nice in advent season. The old buildings are beautifully illuminated, there' snow on the rooftops and the streets (at least with some luck). And then there's the Christkindlmarkt with delicious food and hot [...]
In August I received an email from Stefan, a past participant in my AE Database Knowledge Workshop. He thanked me because I had – without knowing it – helped him solve a problem. There had been a big change in the company where Stefan worked. Because of that, many agents in the AE System had [...]
Does your department manager always hound you for emails of up-to-date reports and analyses? No problem, with a Shell or PowerShell script you can easily handle that. And in Automic, you handle it with SEND_MAIL. However, I want to show you another elegant solution which also works in Automic: Notification Objects. You can download these objects at [...]
