What do people use Macro Scheduler for?

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.

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