Aug 30, 2024
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process automation
Process Productivity and Efficiency Through Process Automation and Intelligence 2024Recent research indicates a significant shift in the perception of process automation from a cost-reduction tool to a crucial strategic element for enhancing operational efficiency and employee productivity, with its importance rising from 40% to 54% among organizations in just one year.
Transforming Enterprise Efficiency with Microsoft Power AutomateAutomation technology serves as a critical bridge between legacy and modern systems, significantly boosting business efficiency by automating repetitive, rule-based tasks. This technology employs bots for functions such as data extraction from digital interfaces or APIs, enabling seamless interaction with various systems, including those lacking API support. In domains like Human Resources, automation expedites processes such as vacation request handling by swiftly accessing and processing relevant data, thereby reducing time and error rates. Its applications span across login procedures, file management, data transfers, and form completions, enhancing productivity across multiple departments.
Tools like Microsoft's Power Automate exemplify this by offering both digital process automation (DPA) and robotic process automation (RPA), facilitating integration and automation across a wide range of applications. This not only reallocates human resources from mundane tasks to more value-added activities but also enhances digital capabilities, improving operational efficiency and competitive advantage. Additionally, features like AI Builder and process mining in platforms like Power Automate integrate intelligence into processes, further optimizing performance and enabling businesses to refine their strategies through advanced automation.
Jun 10, 2024
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UST recognized as a Leader in Intelligent Automation Services by ZinnovUST, a digital transformation solutions company, has been recognized as the leading provider of Intelligent Automation (IA) Services by Zinnov, a globally recognized management consulting and strategy advisory firm. Zinnov's recognition of UST falls under the Mid-tier Service Providers category in their 2023 Zinnov Zones ratings. This rating is a part of Zinnov's latest Zones evaluation which gauged the capabilities and growth potential of companies operating in the Intelligent Automation sector. UST previously received similar accolades from Zinnov in their 2021 sector ratings, which further solidifies UST's stature as a robust and high-impact solutions provider that is well-positioned to meet future client demands. Within its Zones ratings, Zinnov acknowledges UST's SmartOps platform for its effectiveness and strategic approach to facilitate widespread automation solution deployment on cloud platforms. UST’s comprehensive ecosystem of technology partners across the automation tech stack, the impressive portfolio of service offerings, and a unique consultative engagement approach all contribute to its placement in the prestigious leadership zone of the ratings.
Jul 6, 2023
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Transformation in Supply Chain Through End-to-End SAP® Process AutomationBusiness agility emerged as one of the key drivers in SAPinsider’s latest research “Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud”. Digital transformation is being seen as a key lever that organizations can leverage to build business agility and resiliency. Among the many different tools within the digital transformation toolchest, data management automation and process automation are prominent ones. In SAPinsider CIO report 2022, analytics and process automation were identified as top imperatives by CIOs across industries. In another SAPinsider report “Process Automation and SAP S/4HANA”, supply chain was identified as one of the top focus areas for process automation.
SAP is one of the most widely used and comprehensive enterprise system, and has complex, data-intensive processes embedded in the system. In a supply chain context, from upstream to downstream, there are a plethora of processes that various modules support, through hundreds of data-rich business processes designed in these modules. For those leveraging these processes, there is an imperative to have a complete automation platform that can help them with both data and process management aspects. As leaders in various industries embark to understand their challenges and to determine how they can build the capability of a complete automation platform, they grapple with many questions and challenges.
This webinar aims to provide these leaders insights and answers to key questions like:
What’s driving the need for more effective end-to-end automation solutions in our businesses
How combining REST APIs and self-service portals with best-of-breed SAP automation platforms addresses the challenge of complex end-to-end processes
Why a modular, low-code platform approach to automation delivers greater benefits than dedicated, point solutions
Examples of how companies are starting to leverage automation platforms to better manage data and information throughout their enterprises.
Sep 27, 2022
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Webinar On-Demand: How to Build Master Data Automation in SAP ERPMost organizations find it increasingly difficult to consistently manage common data sets across diverse operations, processes and departments without creating redundant and inconsistent versions of the same data.
Data within SAP ERP, such as the Material Master Data object, is built around a complex data structure thatoffers flexibility within business processes using these data. But ERP systems demand a consistent definition of critical enterprise data so that associated business processes can benefit. Incorrect, inconsistent or outdated Material Master Data can have a negative impact on the entire value chain.
Automating data usage within the workflows that orchestrate data across different user views, systems and processes can help maintain and execute standards for consistent and accurate data usage across the enterprise.
In this webinar, you will:
Learn how you can modernize ERP processes with more master data automation.
See how digitizing master data usage within a single end-to-end workflow can guide different users through material master views.
Discover how to create your own structured data interactions across any master data target while delivering end-to-end process automation.
Join us to see how you can leverage ServiceNow Creator Workflows to eliminate ERP data errors, accelerate the right business process outcomes and streamline data management operations.
Sep 21, 2022
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Enhancing Digital Tracking With Intelligent Process AutomationAs SAPinsider research has highlighted, the adoption of process automation has consistently increased year over year. This trend resonates with SAPinsider's recently published research, "Building Resilient and Agile Supply Chains Leveraging Data, Analytics and Automation," which focuses on how tools, data analytics, and automation can help transform supply chain operations. SAPinsiders highlighted how automation and intelligent automation can help them address internal and external business drivers they face today. SAPinsider April 2023 research report "Process Productivity and Efficiency Through Process Automation and Intelligence." Process automation and intelligence can play transformational roles in all sub-functions within the supply chain, including logistics, to help improve the quality and efficiency of processes within this function. In this article, we explore an example of how RPA and Intelligent Automation can help transform business-to-business(B2B) digital tracking.
Jul 22, 2022
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Increasing Focus on Supply Chain Process AutomationProcess automation technologies have increasingly evolved into strategic solutions during the last few years. And recently we have seen an increased focus on supply chain process automation.
While the focus in the initial years of process automation adoption was primarily on achieving cost reduction, process visibility and employee productivity have increasingly become important objectives now for deploying process automation solutions. With the initial focus on removing manual touchpoints and eliminating headcount, finance-related processes were the focus of the majority of process automation initiatives. This is evident from the automation progress reported by SAPinsiders where finance-related processes dominate in processes that are more than 50% automated in the current state. However, when it comes to the top focus area of business processes for automation in 2022, we see human resources (HR) and supply chain-related processes in addition to finance-related processes. This aligns with the top requirement of building process automation capabilities across functions, which SAPinsiders believe will help attain organizational agility. This article discusses top three reasons behind this increased interest.
Jul 1, 2022
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Holistic Automation – The Next Wave in Business TransformationSAPinsider’s recent research on how CIOs are thinking of Transformation in the Enterprise found that almost half are implementing automation tools and technologies in both new and existing systems. Another SAPinsider research on Process automation and SAP S/4HANA discovered that the most important drivers for transformation are the need to become a digital enterprise to […]
Jun 23, 2022
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Process Automation Benchmark Research- EMEA DerivativeProcess automation technologies have increasingly evolved into strategic solutions during the last few years. While the focus in the initial years of adoption was primarily on achieving cost reduction, process visibility and employee productivity have increasingly become important objectives now for deploying these solutions. To understand the perspectives of our community in this critical technology area, SAPinsider has been publishing a benchmark research report since 2020. Continuing the trend, we conducted a survey of SAPinsiders again in March and April 2022 on this topic. SAPinsider surveyed 105 members of our community between March and April 2022. 29% of these respondents were from the EMEA region.This derivative focuses on selected specific insights from EMEA region and how that differs from rest of the world in certain scenarios. We will explore how SAPinsiders in EMEA think about their process automation journey and how that compares to the rest of the world, for some key areas identified in the full report. The full report is available here: https://sapinsider.org/research-reports/process-automation-and-sap-s4hana-benchmark-report/
May 31, 2022
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