Everything You Need To Know About Enterprise Automation

1. ENTERPRISE AUTOMATION ENTERPRISE AUTOMATION Everything You Need To Know About Enterprise Automation. Automation in an enterprise world is a computer-controlled device, a powerful tool usually in an electronic format used to boost efficiency, reduce error, and increase productivity in the system. Enterprise Automation technology covers every task and also empower the organizations to advent their operations in distinct ways and serve other purposes such as; Increasing the value of output Improving consistency in service provided Improving services response time Lowering/Reducing cost Improving workers experience Capitalizing opportunity costs Optimizing internal resource allocation Maintaining loyalty of the organization etc. These benefits are made available to both the enterprise and its customers. In spite of the advantages of automation to the business sector, it has been reported that few firm show little and sometimes no interest to this introduced-system due to some misunderstanding about it replacing the team members of the organization and thereby increasing the rate of unemployment in the society. Regardless of this misunderstanding, the modern economy today still embrace automation as its efficiency and effectiveness towards the business sector have been concluded as progress beyond narrow implementation. Also about increase in unemployment as suggested by few firms, automation does not replace the members of the organization but promotes their

2. effectiveness towards services render and also remove repetitive tasks, menial and streamlining processes. Enterprise Automation: The Machines Aren't Stealing Our Jobs. Setting up an automated system (machine) in an enterprise have been disregarded in some enterprise due to the fact assumed by them that it is taking the jobs meant for human to use as a source of living. Although automation is a type of technology with specially designated attributes that is capable of replacing some of the human skills. Truth be told about this technology, for the fact that automation is built in a form to replace some skills an organization, it still does not take all of the qualities that could be found in human. These machines are built basically to increase creativity, promote satisfaction in services rendered to the organization and other purposes including the above mentioned. Increasing Worker's Overall Output with Enterprise Automation. It has been mentioned severally that automation for enterprise is made not to substitute human skills but to increase firms’ output, especially for the workers. How is it done? How is it achieved?..These questions must have been bothering the minds of some people. Here are the few out of the numerous ways automation increases workers overall output: It helps in avoiding mistakes: Fatigue from human has a high chance of bringing in mistakes in work done. Irrespective of the attention to details, human are still prone to errors. We could forget things which could later result in a huge loss to the company. With machines, humans errors are minimized and they could serve as a reminder when programmed to remind them of the tasks scheduled. The machine does not get tired or sick; though requires proper maintenance.

3. It promotes quality and consistency in service or products: Most stages of the process especially in a large enterprise require long working hours which becomes tedious and stressful to employees after a while. During production, if the focus is lost, quality could become deteriorated and loss will begin to set into the firm. Quality and consistency are amongst the major goal every firm desired, therefore, must be monitored. Quality in products means a lot to both producers and the end-users. For an organization to assure quality in products, there must have been conformity to the set standard. Also, consistency in service shows the loyalty of the firm to the customers. With machines (usually automated), consistency in quality can be assured compared to in human; though the difference in quality delivered by hand-made and machine-made is marginal. Although, Automation can serve as a representation of all processes, still help to keep track of progress in the process, used for optimization and promote man skills. To promote man skills, machine is used as collaborate to achieve a common goal. They help in increasing responsibility by triggering the deadline set on the software. This motivates employees to carry out all necessary tasks. Robotic Process Automation: How it works Features and limitations of an RPA Robotic process automation is amongst the popular artificial intelligence applications today. It is a software-based technology programmed for basic tasks and designed to emulate and integrate human behavior within digital systems also to optimize business processes. They are designed in a way such that they can be taught a workflow using multiple applications and steps to perform the following:

4. Data processing including copying and pasting of data, making calculations, inputting data to forms, extracting data from documents, merging data from various sources, extracting and reformatting data into reports and many more. Integrating of tools by reading and writing of databases, connecting to system API Opening of emails and attachment Moving of files and folders Scraping of data from web sites and so on. RPA is otherwise referred to, works as an industrial robot in most enterprise and replicate employees duties stated earlier. In spite of its useful/advantages to the firm, there are limitations also. Below are some of the limitation related to Robotic Process Automation: Aside from the fact that RPA improves efficiency and effectiveness in an enterprise, there is a limitation to the types of work it can do. Unlike human, RPA is not a cognitive computing solution. They are not built to learn from the environment other than what they have been programmed for. They have their shelf life which limits their longevity Robotic Process Automation does not bring an end to end process For data that is non-electronic (particularly those with unstructured inputs), RPA does not function on it.