There is a sense that automation has finally become more than a buzz word and is now a working feature of business processes and principles. Here are some of the business automation trends of the moment that your business must be aware of and part of if you intend to compete with others in your sector.
Automate day to day repetitive tasks
One of the biggest trends in business is to identify the tasks that you do every day and that take up a significant amount of your time and then to automate these. They must be tasks that cannot be entirely removed from the urgent and important list and are necessary for the business or they are not worth automating and could be phased out. It is these daily tasks from administration and sales processing to the sending of marketing emails to the mission critical tasks that modern automation is now able to do much more accurately and in far less time than ever before. Helpsystems has enterprise robotic process automation software to enhance the way in which your organization runs, and it is systems such as these that provide a great example of automation of the mundane but mandatory.
Voice activated automation
The future is about smart tech that can be controlled using human voice commands. This is about simplifying the process and removes the need for manual controls. The initial systems that we have interacted with in our smart homes, such as the smart speaker (Amazon Echo & Alexa), Siri or even voice led internet searching and voice activated televisions were the precursors of what has become a big part of business automation.
Artificial intelligence is used for voice recognition, which then allows the users specific voice to be used to control and guide high spec smart machinery and technology. Using this voice tech is the future and based on the fact that the average person can speak at 125 words a minute, a lot quicker than typing instructions at 40 words per minute. Making changes to the production line and process, will thus be a voice command, rather than having to run a different softer or even reprogram the machines.
Automated reporting
As long as the business data has been inputted, saved and collated then it can be processed and analyzed using the right automated systems to produces relevant reports on huge amounts of data. The availability of big data and the ability to save and access vast computing prowess and storage capacity in the cloud has mean that there will be more opportunity for automated reports to be run and produces that serve to move the business forward. Providing the motivation for informed change and improvement. The best way to proactively innovate new products and services is to critically analyze the ones that you already have and determine which have historically done better than others, which are doing well today and then what is expected to do well next. This is a process that can be fully automated.
These are important trends in business automation and should be monitored and considered for implementation. Remember, time is money and you will save employee time by using some of these technologies.
