At the heart of any useful piece of technology is the concept of making a complicated process easier. Few trends in digital tech exemplify this idea better than automation, or having a machine perform most (if not all) of a task on their own.
Even with how much technology has advanced and opened up, however, it may seem as if automation is out of reach for small to medium-size businesses. Many have an implicit belief that automation can only happen at a large scale and for larger procedures — rendering it irrelevant to most office work or behind-the-scenes workflows.
But this couldn’t be further from the truth. With the right set of tools, even a business at its very outset can put menial yet important tasks into automated processes. Better still, by shifting responsibility for these processes from humans to machines, businesses will stand to gain time, money and even increased approval from employees.
Check out how that process can begin to come together with this overview of digital process automation.
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