What is Business Process Automation?

Business process automation (BPA), or IT process automation, focuses on streamlining, optimizing and automating the key processes that drive value for an organization and its customers. BPA software enables organizations to design, execute, monitor, and continuously improve business processes that span organizational boundaries and computer networks. Premium BPA software leverages existing IT assets and applications to accelerate informational flows, reduce operational errors, and eliminate delays. It makes business processes more robust, faster, and more efficient. BPA software detects and proactively responds to events (i.e., changes in data, systems, and networks), so organizations that employ it are generally more nimble and responsive to change.

How Does Business Process Automation Work?

Business process automation solutions feature three critical pillars – orchestration, integration, and dynamic process automation. Tight coupling of these elements enables organizations to streamline and AutoMate business processes regardless of scope, scale, and complexity.

Orchestration empowers business managers and IT developers to collaborate on AutoMated process designs using easy-to-use, visually compelling, and intuitive interfaces. It also requires centralized control of business processes that span functional departments, computer networks, and diverse IT environments. Orchestration engines must oversee and execute discrete, independent automation activities in a cohesive, coordinated, and intelligent manner. Orchestration must collect and transform data/events into actionable information which facilitates proactive decision-making. Finally, orchestration must enable real-time, centralized continuous improvement decentralized sub-processes.

Orchestration is not effective in the absence of integration. Integration enables systems and applications to read, modify, and exchange critical data that drive the decision-making of humans and machines. Most business processes consist of disparate systems, diverse environments, and multiple applications, so tight integration is a necessary component of complete business process automation.

The final pillar of business process automation is dynamic, rule-based, AutoMated execution across multiple systems. Automation enables organizations the streamline or eliminate repetitive, manual tasks. Premium automation platforms provide these capabilities without requiring deep programming expertise. Best-of-breed automation platforms deliver more value by eliminating barriers to the entry and change, not by imposing requirements and limitations. They also accelerate development and promote reuse of intellectual property. Finally, automation centralizes control over the development process to eliminate the hassles of managing and maintaining code over the long term.

The Network Automation Approach

As the proven leader in business process automation, we provide organizations with an enterprise ready automation platform. Our core product offerings – under the flagship AutoMate brand – bridge the gap between power and simplicity. Our software logically separates high-level business process design from the intricate work of developing detailed automation applications. We provide an automation platform and tools that promote collaboration between the business users who rely on automation and the IT workers who deliver automation. We enable organizations to design, deploy, and manage optimized business processes regardless of infrastructural limitations. We free businesses from the constraints typically imposed by pre-existing systems and legacy applications. We give them a way to design and streamline their key business processes using a “white board” mentality where no barrier is taken as a given.

Why Business Process Automation  ?

The goal is clear – increase process speed, reliability, and control so you can provide better customer service, increase productivity, and capitalize on new revenue opportunities. To achieve your goal, you need to streamline the key business processes that drive value for customers. You need to optimize, AutoMate, and transform these processes to separate your organization from the competition.

Your key business processes can be high-level and strategic in nature, or they can be targeted and tactical. They can cut across organizational boundaries or they can focus in functional areas such as the IT department. But the answer is the same- business process automation makes key business processes faster, more efficient, more manageable and secure, and less prone to error and delay.

In summary, Network Automation and its offerings drive real business value by:

• Centralizing the management, control, and security of automation across the enterprise
• Streamlining inefficient processes and operations with reliable, repeatable, error-free automation
• Orchestrating high-level, strategic initiatives involving multiple departments, systems, and applications
• Enabling a wide range of automation imperatives encompassing data aggregation, application integration, system/application/network monitoring and problem resolution, disaster recovery, file/data backup, and much more
• Reducing process delays caused by machine downtime or employee off-time
• Eliminating errors introduced by process delays and repetitive worker activities
• Giving knowledge workers access to fresher, more accurate data so they can make better, more informed decisions
• Providing a platform for enhanced collaboration between business users and technical personnel for continuous process improvement
• Making organizations more nimble and agile so they can respond to changes quickly
• Enhancing process compliance capabilities for improved adherence to government and industry regulations and requirements
• Optimizing the key processes that drive in your business, regardless of existing infrastructure and legacy applications
• Eliminating the need for one-off scripts and code dispersed across the enterprise
• Improving workforce productivity by eliminating costly, repetitive, and mundane activities