What is Hyperautomation?
Hyperautomation is the concept of using multiple automation tools to automate as many processes as possible. Anything that can be automated, should be automated. By leveraging multiple automation tools and technology, hyperautomation allows organizations to transform their business to be more resilient, agile—and competitive.
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Why is Hyperautomation Important?
Many organizations started their automation journey with RPA, automating in a siloed, small project, quick-win approach. But not all processes fit this description, instead they are complex, and require more sophisticated, reliable solutions.
Case in point, in the last few years, the need for digital transformation has further sped up as businesses have shifted the way they work. More processes have gone digital and have majorly increased the amount of data that businesses interact with. Both structured and unstructured data is coming from multiple systems and applications, and organizations need a more modern approach to integrate, ingest, move, manipulate, and process this data.
Hyperautomation helps organizations meet these demands by providing a strategy designed to optimize operations and put employees back to more meaningful work. Companies are recognizing the benefit of automating processes end-to-end through a variety of tools to streamline and deliver a better experience to customers and employees. This greatly reduces the burdens of tedious manual tasks to allow for more strategic work. And according to Gartner, organzations that embrace hyperautomation technologies will lower operational costs by 30%.
What Technology Helps Facilitate Hyperautomation?
While the focus is on automation tools, other software like natural language processing (NLP), process mining, and others, round out a traditional hyperautomation strategy. Based on your needs, some software solutions will work on their own, while others can be used in conjunction to tackle more complex, multi-step, long running processes—the key to hyperautomation is leveraging the right tools to best tackle any process. Together these software tools provide a powerful arsenal for advancing your automation strategy.
What Are the Benefits of Hyperautomation?
Hyperautomation brings technology and people together giving you more power behind your solutions to automate more processes. With a solid hyperautomation strategy, you can give your business the following benefits:
Challenges of Hyperautomation
It’s important to understand the challenges of hyperautomation as you look to expand your automation footprint. As when you implement any type of new software, you need to ensure buy-in at all levels of the project, know which processes are the right candidates, and have a way to measure success. Hyperautomation will be disruptive, meaning that leaders must be ready to retool, retrain, and reframe employees' responsibilities and ways of seeing their work.
Hyperautomation also acknowledges that no single tool can tackle the vast array of challenges for organizations. There’s a large landscape of products to choose from and hyperautomation allows for a best-of-breed approach where you can build your tech stack with the best combination of solutions to fit your needs.
Hyperautomation vs. Automation
The best way to think of hyperautomation is as automation supercharged. Almost every organization uses some form of automation. But with hyperautomation, the scale and footprint covers the entire organization.
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Automation
A way to streamline part of a process. Automation can be anything from scripts to batch jobs, to RPA software. -
Hyperautomation
The concept of automating as many processes as possible across an organization using a toolkit of different technologies—like RPA, AI, ML, and more.
Why Fortra for Hyperautomation?
Fortra is your relentless ally on the automation journey. We provide one vendor for your hyperautomation needs for a more holistic approach. Our top-rated solutions are backed by world class support—and we don’t just stop at the software. Our automation program includes a community that provides extensive education and training, the Fortra Bot Store – an online marketplace of pre-built connectors and digital workers, and comprehensive service offerings that show we’re with you every step of the way to help you achieve end-to-end automation across your organization.