acquired successor helpsystems founded los angeles ca 2004 defunct 2014 acquisition completed headquarters 3530 wilshire blvd. suite 1800 los angeles ca key people dustin snell founder and chief executive officer ; marty gadzinowski director of sales automate ; products automate and automate bpa server software website networkautomation.com network automation was a los angeles based software company . the company developed automate business process automation software designed to simplify repetitive information technology processes on desktop computers and servers . contents 1 history 2 products 3 landmark legal ruling 4 awards 5 notes 6 external links history edit in july 2004 dustin snell launched network automation inc. in los angeles ca. 1 in september 2012 after two years as chief software architect snell resumed his role as ceo . 2 in april 2014 the company was acquired by minneapolis mn based helpsystems an it software company offering solutions in the areas of systems and network management business intelligence security and compliance for ibm i unix linux and windows environments . 3 products edit the company s main products are automate and automate bpa server which run on windows operating systems . the products are designed to simplify repetitive it tasks via a drag and drop gui interface without requiring end user coding . functions include job scheduling automated ftp batch processing automated backups scripting automated testing event log monitoring and automated reporting . 4 automate automate software presents a gui based interface for automating it processes . the base version is called automate professional and an enhanced version is called automate premium . automate bpa server automate bpa server software provides centralized management of process management across the entire enterprise . the base version is called automate bpa server standard edition and an enhanced version supporting more than 10 machines is known as automate bpa server enterprise edition . 2012 enhancements include support for windows azure and amazon web services . third party applications such as microsoft crm can also be integrated . 5 landmark legal ruling edit network automation inc. v. advanced systems concepts inc. was a california court case decided in favor of network automation on march 8 2011 . the ninth circuit court verdict protected the rights of companies to use strategic keywords in internet search advertising . awards edit automate has won awards from windows it pro cnet and networkworld 6 7 8 9 and was named as the best scripting tool by redmondmag . 10 the company was named to the 2009 2011 and 2012 inc. 5000 as one of the fastest growing software companies in the us . 11 notes edit dustin snell chief executive officer network automation inc. . spoke . retrieved 2011 11 07 . names founder ceo . network automation . retrieved 2013 03 05 . helpsystems launches mobile initiatives acquires nai for workflow automation . itjungle.com . 2014 04 22 . retrieved 2015 03 06 . processor editorial article automated data extraction & reporting . processor.com . 2009 12 04 . retrieved 2011 11 07 . dead link automated response network automation upgrades automate . software magazine . retrieved 2015 04 03 . 2012 windows it pro gold best task automation product . windowsitpro.com . retrieved 2012 11 20 . 2009 windows it pro editors best and community choice awards best task automation product . windowsitpro.com . 2009 11 19 . retrieved 2011 11 07 . automate free software downloads and software reviews cnet download.com . download.cnet.com . retrieved 2011 11 07 . products of the week . networkworld.com . 2009 11 09 . retrieved 2011 11 07 . 11 01 2009 . the redmond reader s choice awards it s a grand slam . redmondmag.com . retrieved 2011 11 07 . inc. magazine 5000 . inc. retrieved 2012 11 20 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title network automation & oldid 743512802 categories software companies based in californiacompanies based in los angeleshidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from april 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 00 31 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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