August 4, 2006

What do people use Macro Scheduler for?

Filed under: General — Marcus Tettmar @ 12:41 pm

It’s always fascinating and useful to find out how other people use Macro Scheduler. As you probably know I frequently post Success Stories here on this blog. There’s also a really interesting topic on the forums, here, where people can post information about how Macro Scheduler helps them.

I’ve just scanned through the forum post and made a short list summarising some of the ways people are using Macro Scheduler:

  • Creating an Automated Ticketing System
  • Caption Competition Tool
  • Automated backups and file management
  • Anti-phishing Tool
  • Automated admin tasks and unlocking files
  • Backing up a MySQL database
  • Transferring data from Oracle to UPS Worldship
  • Automating an ERP Shipping System
  • Order email retrieval, parse and input to ERP system
  • Automation of e-commerce tasks
  • Automated report writing
  • EDI Scheduling
  • Integrating Word and Excel macros
  • Harvesting data from websites
  • Stress and load testing ERP software
  • Automated provisioning system for a telecommunications company
  • To automatically broadcast and archive daily conference calls
  • Retrieval from corporate databases and report production where no ad-hoc reporting tool exists.
  • “entering data where there are multiple steps over a number of pages & especially where the application does not have keyboard command options. I load the data into a xls, then MS will enter the data quickly & accurately.”

Read more, or post your own experiences here: Tell us how Macro Scheduler helps you, what you use it for.

If you have a Macro Scheduler Success Story and would like to see it included on this blog please contact me. At the end of the year we will choose our favourite story and the winner will receive $100 worth of Amazon Vouchers.