Major companies are not easy to transform digitally due to inertia of a large structure and deeply rooted traditions. Diverse IT landscape and distributed faculties make it especially difficult and expensive to migrate established business routine. On the contrary, smaller companies can quickly transform their operations into digital field due to limited footprint and simpler [...]
Due to explosive growth in robotics and AI automated processes are quickly becoming an essential part of business. Wide adoption of automated processes creates significant challenges for business management. Automated processes are both simpler and more complex to manage, compared to manual processes. Simpler, because automation is void of any personal attitude or bias of [...]
Crucial and often missed factor of success for an automation initiative is careful evaluation of process interaction with other processes. As a rule, processes, which have excessive dependencies and external communications are especially difficult to automate. Complexity of automation may grow exponentially with the increase in process linking. Overall degree of link density for processes [...]
Question of relation between methodology and its subject area is quite generic. One one pole, every case is specific and deserves its own methodology. On another pole, nearly every case can be cast to any given methodology with more or less voluntary approximations. If we use too many narrow methodologies, we complicate communication and mutual [...]
It is often believed that automation concerns replacement of humans by machines, in general, and by computers in IT scope, in particular. However, in its fundamental sense, automation is not an exclusive prerogative of computers and machinery. Rather, automation addresses a fundamental level of functional formalization of any activity. Automation aggregates a knowledge about necessary [...]
As such, IT and BPM are often exactly antagonistic to a pleasant customer journey. Customers, except for most misanthropic ones, naturally prefer human interaction instead of an IT system. It is enough to remember all frustration, which anybody had a chance to encounter at least once, while wandering across innumerous levels of auto-responder menu in desperate [...]
Robotic Process Automation is generally an acronym for software, which closely mimics behavior of humans when interacting with various computer systems. There exist several most common use cases for this technology. 1. It is commonly used in various test automation scenarios when it is necessary to reproduce hypothetical behavior of software users with system under [...]
The evolution of technology historically started with tools for elementary mechanical tasks, which are difficult or impossible to do by hand. These simple manual tools gradually evolved to a state of perfection where some tasks were possible to run without direct involvement of humans. This stage marked transition to the era of automated production. Recent [...]
As a part of continuous commitment to Microsoft® technologies, CaseAgile announces a new release of Enterprise Explorer™ software, which supports direct exchange of BPMN diagrams designed in Microsoft® Visio with leading BPMN process engines. CaseAgile presented a live demonstration of Enterprise Explorer™ on "BPMN IN ACTION Meet and Greet" event organized by The Object Management Group (OMG) in Brussels [...]