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Business Process Automation

Achieve Positive Business Outcomes through Optimization and/or Automation of Your IT Infrastructure

Globalization Automation and its offerings drive real business value by: Centralizing the management, control, and security of automation across the enterprise streamlining inefficient processes and operations with reliable, repeatable, error-free automation Orchestrating high-level, strategic initiatives involving multiple departments, systems, and applications enabling a wide range of automation imperatives encompassing data aggregation, application integration, system/application/network monitoring and problem resolution, disaster recovery, file/data backup, and much more reducing process delays caused by machine downtime or employee off-time eliminating errors introduced by process delays and repetitive worker activities giving knowledge workers access to fresher, more accurate data so they can make better, more informed decisions providing a platform for enhanced collaboration between business users and technical personnel for continuous process improvement making organizations more nimble and agile so they can respond to changes quickly enhancing process compliance capabilities for improved adherence to government and industry regulations and requirements optimizing the key processes that drive in your business, regardless of existing infrastructure and legacy applications eliminating the need for one-off scripts and code dispersed across the enterprise improving workforce productivity by eliminating costly, repetitive, and mundane activities.

What is Business Process Automation?

Business process automation (BPA) focuses on streamlining, optimizing and automating the key processes that drive value for an organization and its customers. BPA software enables organizations to design, execute, monitor, and continuously improve business processes that span organizational boundaries and computer networks. Premium BPA software leverages existing IT assets and applications to accelerate informational flows, reduce operational errors, and eliminate delays.

It makes business processes more robust, faster, and more efficient. BPA software detects and proactively responds to events (i.e., changes in data, systems, and networks), so organizations that employ it are generally more nimble and responsive to change.

How Does Business Process Automation Work?

Business process automation solutions feature three critical pillars – orchestration, integration, and dynamic process automation. Tight coupling of these elements enables organizations to streamline and automate business processes regardless of scope, scale, and complexity. Orchestration empowers business managers and IT developers to collaborate on automated process designs using easy-to-use, visually compelling, and intuitive interfaces. It also requires centralized control of business processes that span functional departments, computer networks, and diverse IT environments. Orchestration engines must oversee and execute discrete, independent automation activities in a cohesive, coordinated, and intelligent manner. Orchestration must collect and transform data/events into actionable information which facilitates proactive decision-making. Finally, orchestration must enable real-time, centralized continuous improvement decentralized sub-processes. Orchestration is not effective in the absence of integration. Integration enables systems and applications to read, modify, and exchange critical data that drive the decision-making of humans and machines. Most business processes consist of disparate systems, diverse environments, and multiple applications, so tight integration is a necessary component of complete business process automation.

The final pillar of business process automation is dynamic, rule-based, automated execution across multiple systems. Automation enables organizations the streamline or eliminate repetitive, manual tasks. Premium automation platforms provide these capabilities without requiring deep programming expertise. Best-of-breed automation platforms deliver more value by eliminating barriers to the entry and change, not by imposing requirements and limitations. They also accelerate development and promote reuse of intellectual property. Finally, automation centralizes control over the development process to eliminate the hassles of managing and maintaining code over the long term.

The Network Automation Approach As the proven leader in business process automation, we provide organizations with an enterprise ready automation platform. Our core product offerings under the flagship GA bridge the gap between power and simplicity. Our software logically separates high-level business process design from the intricate work of developing detailed automation applications. We provide an automation platform and tools that promote collaboration between the business users who rely on automation and the IT workers who deliver automation. We enable organizations to design, deploy, and manage optimized business processes regardless of infrastructural limitations. We free businesses from the constraints typically imposed by pre-existing systems and legacy applications. We give them a way to design and streamline their key business processes using a white board mentality where no barrier is taken as a given.

Benefits of Business Automation

-The benefits of business process automation include the elimination of human error, dramatic increases in transaction speeds and consistent and repeatable performance of business processes. -In short, business processes can be performed faster and more accurately resulting in lower cost and increased business capability.

Higher Returns on Investment

-By leveraging your existing computer technology in new ways, human input, output and routine data entry can be reduced or even eliminated.

-Allow your computer to be your gopher and utilize your human employees to make the right decisions based upon the computers output.

What Can GA Do For Me?

Launching applications and sending keystrokes/mouse clicks, extracting and populating data to/from external applications, automated secure FTP file transfers, display or speak (using text to speech) information messages, windows event log monitoring and handling assign repetitive data-entry to a single keystroke, intranet / Extranet file replication, time synchronization with local server or remote atomic-time server bulk file processing (parsing, renaming writing etc.), Win32 services management, drive mapping management, default printer management, add, change or delete registry keys/values, report generation, database updates (with any OLEDB - SQL compliant database), back office error detection and resolution, screen reader, alarms, data compression, automated policy enforcement, plus much more - the only limit is your imagination!

No Code, No Limits

Integrate all your macros, scripts, batch files, and systems integration applets into a single more manageable, more maintainable, and more powerful system.

BUSINESS PROCESS AUTOMATION:

What we can do for you. As part of GA standard automation system services, clients receive the following: Complete automation Solution. We'll design, develop, deploy, host, and maintain your automated presence. Our award winning design team begins the process by working with you on the system concept addressing system structure, navigation, and "overall look and feel". After selecting and refining a design concept, our development team takes over and builds the system. We create the system framework and load it onto a development server. Content is then loaded and any software required to support the system online directories, member logins, job banks, managed content features, back-office integration, etc, is developed and tested. Finally, your system is made available for your review before it becomes your "live" system.

We don't leave you hanging after the system is live. That's when our support team shines. They become an extension of you staff, loading content, creating links, and providing on-call support in completing postings within one business day. The GA's complete solution approach has worked well with many clients over the years. Several long-term clients (some with us more than a decade) have been through the system design cycle more than once

System Design and Development:

Clients who provide their own support and maintenance often turn to us to update their system with a new design and new structure. A custom design is developed through an iterative process between our designers and your designated team. Once approved the design is either built by our team or provided to you for loading content.

Back Office Integration:

Ever want to give your system more power? Try offering clients or organization members the ability to update their own records. You can even have online conference registration information flow directly into your back-office applications. Several of our clients are already reaping the benefits of these services. Our integration team has successfully completed back-office integration projects linking client Web sites to: Avectra's netFORUM, Advanced Solutions International's iMIS, Microsoft's CRM, goMembers' goSeries, Aptify, and several "home grown" applications.

Contact us about your integration needs.

Your goals: keep your competitive edge, keep pace with the speed of business and deliver products and services that satisfy your customers' demands. Our objective: work behind the scenes to help you achieve your business goals by delivering services that simplify and streamline your IT environment for operational excellence.

By managing more than 1 million applications for our clients in various industries around the world, and maintaining more than 2.3 billion lines of code across more than 60 centers of expertise, GA is a proven technology ally working behind the scenes to help businesses and government agencies succeed. That's why we are the business ally of choice behind so many successful companies and can be for you too.

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