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Creating a Competitive Advantage with Hyper-Automation

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In October of 2019, Gartner listed hyper-automation at the top of its Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2020 list. According to Gartner, hyper-automation “involves a combination of tools, including robotic process automation (RPA), intelligent business [process] management software (iBPMS) and AI, with a goal of increasing AI-driven decision making.”

Several months later in December of 2019, Gartner released a report that highlighted organizations’ failures to achieve scale in their automation efforts. These shortcomings are primarily attributable to reliance on too few automation technologies and/or failure to integrate them.

“Enterprise architecture and technology innovation leaders lack a defined strategy to scale automation with tactical and strategic goals. They must deliver end-to-end automation beyond RPA by combining complementary technologies to augment business processes.”

Many organizations have been successful at automating business processes through a single digital technology like robotic process automation (RPA). RPA provides organizations with a quick and cost-effective way to automate routine business processes.

But as Gartner points out, “processes are not always simple, routine, repetitive and stable. They may be long running, and they often involve intelligent automated decision making and optimization. The real challenge – to scale beyond the initial few low-hanging fruits of routine processes – cannot be solved by a single tool or with siloed strategies.”   For that, organizations must work towards achieving hyper-automation.

Strategies for Enabling Hyper-Automation

In Gartner’s December 2019 report, they provided three recommendations that organizations should focus on to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives:

Organizations that adopt these recommendations to move beyond the automation of simple business processes stand to gain a significant competitive edge in the coming years.

Plan your process automation journey

Key stakeholders must collaborate to set a vision for their automation initiatives by identifying organizational objectives. Gartner advises aligning your automation goals with three core objectives:

From there, stakeholders must identify processes that they wish to optimize and create a long-term automation roadmap using tools from Gartner’s DigitalOps toolbox.   

Apply DigitalOps Toolbox

Digitalops-toolboxA DigitalOps toolbox is the set of complementary digital technologies that organizations use to address the different stages of process automation and achieve hyper-automation.  These tools include:

Augment your Business Processes with AI

To achieve hyper-automation at scale, organizations must establish an integrated system of DigitalOps tools and combine those tools with intelligence technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (AI).

Organizations can only go so far with standard process automation technologies since they are limited by predefined conditions. In other words, if something occurs outside of the norm it can negatively impact the process since the system lacks the ability to adapt. With AI, however, it is not necessary to preprogram everything. The system adapts and improves over time. This allows organizations to automate more complex business process, achieve hyper-automation at scale, and gain a significant competitive advantage.

ProcessMaker offers an industry leading low-code intelligent business process management suite (iBPMS) that has helped organizations located all over the world to achieve digital transformation.

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