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Integration of different business applications using APIs towards seamless business operations is one way of automation. However, it offers a linear solution. As businesses look forward to do more with existing resources, Intelligent Automation (IA) is offering a definite way ahead. It is a key lever of digital transformation to achieve exponential results event amidst practical lockdowns.
IA is a congregation of different automation solutions, each helping you leverage your existing investments further.
Together, these technologies offer a digitally secure and integrated platform that helps you extract and manage content, orchestrate work, and manage decisions. These three levers allow you to take your mind off mundane tasks such as filling up forms, maintaining spreadsheets, and other swivel chair operations and help you focus on your business key process indicators. They take care of 90% of information generation and intelligence amassing while seamlessly automating your processes.
Yes. It is. When you think of the data received from multiple channels, the information explosion in the last few years as well as the huge amount of information you require to process for deriving meaningful and actionable insights, you have to think of automation at scale. This is the right time when you take your automation to the cloud.
Containerization of your existing IT investments or software applications helps you run them seamlessly on the cloud, where the hardware infrastructure is separate from the software. It gives you tremendous control of the architectures, which are otherwise not easy to fine tune. You can host these containerized applications on-premise, public, or hybrid cloud.
Talking of taking the IA levers to the cloud, you can leverage each of these levers individually or in a bundled form over the cloud. The cloud format not only allows you to improve the speed and the compute power but also the scale of operations over geographically distant locations.
This digital scale is ideally adopted in a platform as a service (PaaS) mode to have better control over the operations. Though software as a service (SaaS) is also offered by the large cloud service providers, who offer the IA solutions on the cloud to you in a pay-per-use mode.
Automation over the cloud has tremendous business potential:
IA bots running over the cloud enable you to manage content, orchestrate work, and manage decisions over remote, geographically dispersed locations. The systematic information architecture and the scalable nature of the effort are instrumental in the making of a future-ready enterprise.