The demand for automation continues to skyrocket in 2024. Furthermore, considering the demand for agile workflow and reduced time-to-market deliverables in the digitized era, the surge of cognitive automation is expected to continue for the long term. A 2023 Forrester survey states that more than 56% of businesses strive for process improvement. 71% of organizations agree that end-to-end automation is a crucial driver of growth.
However, automation without a clear strategy and skills gap can affect an organization’s efficiency. The Forrester survey found that 57% of businesses lack strategic clarity. With the abundance of AI automation resources, determining the right automation tools and methodologies for your business can be confounding.
Most Common Automation Challenges- Automation Anywhere Finds
Business leaders around the world acknowledge the vital presence of intelligence or cognitive automation. Despite the unison agreement, most businesses struggle to implement cognitive automation. Automation Anywhere highlights four significant challenges in this regard:
1. Fragmented Process
Streamlined workflow processes and business scalability are two major reasons businesses strive to implement intelligent process automation. However, most companies find automation scalability a challenge. Automation Anywhere suggests that most enterprises implement a myriad of automation tools to automate a lot of tasks individually without establishing standard connectivity. The resultant fragmented processes possess siloed data restricted to relevant operational departments.
The disconnected data and documents of the disparate processes make it difficult for organizations to take a holistic process approach. Automation Anywhere’s cognitive automation can help to re-engineer the siloed processes. It can enable cost-effective and lean operations with complete accuracy and faster than the traditional automation approach.
2. IT Lacks Readiness
Another challenge is the lack of IT readiness. The potential of cognitive automation can be fully realized with the cooperation of IT. However, intelligent automation needs robust IT support. Substantial cloud storage and computing resources are required for enhanced capabilities and scalability. This needs a partnership with an IT team experienced in cloud infrastructure. Despite the positive anticipation about AI, more than 34% of organizations have not shifted to the cloud. It shows the organizations’ unpreparedness to scale automation across their operations.
3. Resistance to Change Adoption
Technology readiness aside, the willingness of organization employees to accept the change is equally important—this is a real-time struggle. A 2022 Pew Research highlights the mixed opinions of 43% of respondents regarding AI. Automation Anywhere further highlights that businesses during the time of change adoption fail to consider employee training about the new processes and tools. This kind of change would not be beneficial in the long term. A holistic approach is necessary to bridge the skills and encourage employees to adopt change to overcome automation challenges.
4. Need for a Purposeful Vision
Initiating change and applying it necessitates integrating appropriate strategies with a clear vision. A study highlights that 70% of automation script tests are erroneous, and this occurs due to bad automation design practices. Poor automation strategies lead to missed opportunities and increased risk of failure.
Automation Anywhere suggests that a proper roadmap encompassing the how and why of automation is crucial to have clarity about its application. This enables a business to implement automation that increases ROI and drives business growth. This is where Evoke and Automation Anywhere Partnership Solutions step in.
Evoke Automation Anywhere Partnership- Leveraging Expert Strategies, Enhancing
Automation Efficiency
Implementing correct strategies is critical to achieving automation efficiency, and our automation experts at Evoke understand it.
As a trusted premier Automation Anywhere Partner, we excel in converting your automation challenges into opportunities to unlock the full potential of automation efficiency. Read on to find out how our Automation Anywhere Partnered solutions are empowering our clients and can benefit you:
A Clear Strategic Roadmap
Embarking on an automation journey without a clear strategy is like maneuvering the Titanic in the fog without assessing the perils of a possible iceberg. Forbes highlights that 30-50% of automation projects fail worldwide due to a lack of a clear goal and strategy. Our Automation Anywhere partnered experts help resolve the issue.
Our automation experts curate a strategic roadmap after conducting a thorough assessment of your existing processes. We provide an automation solutions strategy that ensures a fitment study of the methods. From determining a timeline and cost to task prioritization and delivery, our assessed strategic roadmap includes everything to ensure a successful automation experience.
In one case, we worked with a leading manufacturing company where we empowered the client to automate the data reconciliation process successfully. The client was seeking a solution to minimize the manual effort and improve the turnaround time for increased process orders. Data integration was another challenge for them.
Leveraging Automation Anywhere and expert skills, our automation experts built and provisioned an intelligent bot that enabled easy integration within the existing system. It enabled the client company to increase manufacturing request process duration up to 10x and reduced processing time from 3 days to 30 minutes with 100+ attribute configurations.
Seamless Workflow Optimization
Workflow automation empowers businesses to collaborate among teams, like development and operations, for seamless workflow integration. However, challenges like communication gaps, solution rigidity, data management, unfeasible expectations, sudden errors, and so on. Evoke, the expert Automation Anywhere partner, helps you overcome the challenges.
Following the problem assessment of your business challenge, Automation Anywhere Partner Evoke’s AI/ML professionals develop tailored business applications that seamlessly enhance your business workflow. We conduct POC (proof of concept) development and process re-engineering, among other things, to deploy automation solutions at scale.
Our case study shows how we leveraged intelligent automation to streamline a company’s PR validation process. We deployed an unattended bot to check the IT PR (purchase requisites). This bot reduced unclassified IT expenses to zero and increased procurement cycle duration. It enabled the client company to experience seamless workflow optimization with reduced delay and minimal manual intervention.
Experience Consistent Automation Performance
Successful workflow automation requires performance consistency and round-the-clock maintenance. However, maintaining automation consistency is a challenge that includes issues like process drift, poor data quality, system integration and change management problems, and inconsistent monitoring. Our Automation Anywhere partnered professionals enable you to navigate through these automation challenges with 24/7 monitoring and service maintenance post-implementation.
Leveraging Automation Anywhere’s expert capabilities, we constantly upgrade and improve the services whenever necessary. This ensures your application is equipped with rich data and does not suffer process drift that leads to unintended process deviations from the intended outcome.
In the case of marketing leads mapping automation, Evoke’s Automation Anywhere partnered professionals deployed an intelligent bot for lead generation data collection and a demand tool to assess opportunities from gathered data. The lead processing duration was reduced from 1 week to 2 hours, saving 10 days of manual labor per month. The Automation Anywhere professionals implemented constant monitoring of the deployed bots, ensuring consistent automation performance quality.
Customer-Centric Approach
Finally, our focus is on developing customer-centric solutions. The Evoke-Automation Anywhere partnership is based on the vision of offering tailored strategies that truly resolve your pain points.
We understand that one size does not fit all. Hence, our Automation Anywhere partnership service solutions are tailored and developed following meticulous problem assessment and relevant business objectives. For example, in one case, we focused on implementing intelligent automation in the email monitoring system that reduced invoice processing time from 180 minutes to 36 minutes, saving $180,000.
In another case, we deployed an intelligent bot to automate a complex certificate of analysis (COA) process for a chemical manufacturer. It enabled the manufacturer to reduce human intervention by 80+ hours per month.
Evoke’s strategic Automation Anywhere partnership leverages leading-edge AI RPA tools and resources to unlock the latent capabilities of intelligent workflow automation. Our automation solutions thus, assist you to cut through the noise of automation overload and focus on automation efficiency that drives genuine results.
