Case Study: Farm Credit Bank of Texas achieves lights-out, cross-platform job automation with Fortra's Robot Schedule Enterprise

Robot Schedule Enterprise Improves Quality of Life at Farm Credit Bank of Texas

Farm Credit Bank of Texas (FCBT), a long-standing lender serving rural America, was managing a complex, heterogeneous IT environment — System i partitions, Windows servers, SQL and DB2 systems supporting over 1,000 users — and struggled to coordinate highly dependent night batch processes across platforms. The manual stopping, waiting and guesswork required to get jobs to run in the right order created scheduling errors, audit concerns and a heavy overnight support burden.

By deploying Robot Schedule Enterprise, FCBT centralized cross-platform job sequencing, used agent environments for secure credentials, and leveraged XML export/import for consistent test deployments. The solution eliminated manual waiting, controlled dependencies from a single console, provided extensive historical logs and locked-down schedules for audits, scaled for future projects, and dramatically reduced overnight incidents — enabling “lights out” operations and improved quality of life for staff.

Farm Credit Bank of Texas

Larry Neal

Developer, iSystem