Automation Platform

Automation is the use of technology to perform tasks with reduced human assistance. Any industry that encounters repetitive tasks can use automation, but automation is more prevalent in the industries of manufacturing, robotics, and automotives, as well as in the world of technology in IT systems and business decision software. Automation is key to IT optimization and digital transformation.

Modern, dynamic IT environments need to be able to scale faster than ever and automation is vital to making that happen.Why automate? Automation helps you accelerate processes and scale environments, as well as build continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment (CI/CD) workflows. Automation is critical to managing, changing, and adapting not only your IT infrastructure, but the way your business operates through its processes. By simplifying change through automation, you gain the time and energy to focus on innovation. The automated enterprise’s goal is to get work done faster. This frees up IT staff to focus on bigger issues, resolving them, and in turn making them routine and eligible for automation.

Advantages of Automation

Automation isn’t necessarily meant to replace people. Some of that will happen as a result of removing steps that require human interaction, but the focus and advantages are found in productivity, consistency, and efficiency. This is the paradox of automation as you become efficient using automation, human involvement becomes both more important and less frequent.

Instead of seeing automation as a tool that eliminates jobs, the reality is that it allows more experienced IT staff to focus on bigger problems and their solutions, rather than mundane, day-to-day, repeated tasks.

Advantages

Greater productivity.
Your staff can spend more time making a bigger impact on your business. Leave the repetition to software.
Better reliability
By reducing the amount of human intervention, you run into less oversights and issues. All of the same things happen the same way every time. That way you know exactly when processes, tests, updates, workflows, etc. are going to happen, how long they’ll take, and that you can trust the outcomes.
Easier governance
More people means more potential for knowledge gaps. More knowledge gaps means one side of your business might not know what, or who, is involved on the other side. Codifying everything means better control.