How to get ahead
With everything moving at a rapid pace, how do businesses make a start on these areas so they can put their business process revolution in to action? We’ve put together some objective highlights to help businesses make that revolution a reality.
Select your tooling
If as a business you are just starting to consider how you do more with your processes and streamline your overall business practices, selecting the tooling that can do the job will be critical.
Your tooling will be usable for various audiences, and a low or no-code tool might be just the ticket to help your staff create automation from your processes without having to be retrained as a technical coder.
Understand your business processes
You should also consider the state of your business processes today in terms of how they are currently understood. Have they not been reviewed in the last 12 or 18 months? Are they still fit for purpose for your business? Creating a high-impact team (HIT) to drive this review will provide a great overview on where processes need focus or changes, even prior to automating them.
You should also consider the location of your services that make up your overall processes.
Differing locations will present challenges where differing permissions or credentials might be required inside one single process, and from an automation perspective it is important that your tooling can handle this likely decentralised approach to your services.
And finally, pick an area of the business you feel could benefit from automating your business processes that has the highest chance of positive impact. Many businesses target their joiner, mover, leaver (JML) processes as a starting point, as it is more visible to your staff, increases new staff satisfaction (and therefore retention) and has a wider impact to your business.
& Introducing managed workspace
From healthcare to hospitality, HR to finance, customers worldwide have repetitive and complicated processes for their businesses that take up time and money over many different systems and services, with often a mixture of on-prem, cloud and legacy.
A-Connect from LABS is the world's first fully hybrid and remote capable business process automation software. IA-Connect's patented technology allows you to automate your processes wherever you need to go - local or remote, on-prem or in the cloud. From applications, documents, and web browsers, to account provisioning and even mainframes, SAP and ITSM solutions. IA-Connect has it covered.
IA-Connect is designed as low/no-code, so anyone in your business can automate their processes, not just your technical IT team, and is compatible with Microsoft Power Automate, PowerShell or Blue Prism.
Since 2022 IA-Connect is now available with joiner, mover, leaver (JML) functionality. This add-on service, combined with IA-Connect's revolutionary business process automation technology, creates one of the market's most powerful solutions to onboard, move or offboard your staff successfully and automatically. This from increasing retention through happy staff where everything just works from day 1, to improving your security posture and everything in between.
Managed workspace from the Ultima Group utilises IA-Connect, but comes with a 24/7 management overlay of technical experts to help you get the best out of your automation workflows.
As part of this Ultima can provide customers with a no obligation pre-sales overview, showing customers the benefits of IA-Connect, automation and the wider user experience that is relevant to their business before getting started.
"IA-Connect helps drive our joiner and leaver processes far more efficiently than we could do before and with an instant ROI, freeing up resource to concentrate on adding value, rather than the mudane."
LABS from the Ultima Group, based on existing customer data