IT Automation such as software installation,
create users, delete files, backup, move
files to a folder, or setup
printers.
Business Process Automation such as
data collection, invoice processing, account
provisioning, generate reporting, and custom
application processes.
Web Automation such as auto login, web data
extraction, fill online forms, screen
scrape, report generation, find broken web
links, and automate FTP.
Email
Automation such as auto responding to
inquiries, send price list to dealers.
How about many Windows automation? network automation?
database automation?remote desktop
automation? GUI automation? job scheduling?
data integration? batch processing?
In the computing world most businesses heavily
depend on, many small and especially big
mistakes are usually caused by human errors.
A 200 year old bank with a track record can
go down just like that because of a single human
error. In many cases, machine can run most
routine tasks much better, more reliable,
and more efficiently than we human can. Machine never
get bored and tired liked we human do.
Anyone who tries to do repetitive tasks
day-in and day-out, thing like retrieving currency
pricing from web source and
email them to multiple customers at a certain time
of the day, twice a
day, ten times a week, forty times a month
will eventually make mistake, and this mistake
cost money.
Why not automate this task, as
well as many IT and business process, to save
time and eliminate mistake?
You may have already automated many common IT tasks to save time
and improve efficiency. You can certainly
take advantage of automation software to
automate even more IT tasks, they
include
but no limit to the following tasks:
Software installation, FTP download/backup,
monitoring server condition,
application monitoring, and data backup status.
Delete or move
files to a specific folder based on the
condition you set; automate email
processing such as reply to job applicants,
or distribute incoming emails to
departments.
Zip large file when it
reach a certain file size, zip a folder and email
it, unzip contents into a folder, rename all
files in a folder, backup your daily work
into a zip file.
You can automate many
day-to-day business process too.
Business can automate sales order process, invoice
processing, inventory management, download
file and report, send email to a list of
contacts, format Microsoft Word documents in
a folder, import data from database to
Microsoft Excel, import data from Exec to
database, transfer data from Exec to any
application, import CSV file to any
application, convert XLS or CSV to MDB.
You can extract many form of data
from web sites for many purposes. Here
are just some examples how automation
software can do for you:
Why do it manually if you can automatically
update your retail pricing easily and
quickly by extracting price list from
multiple suppliers? Smart real estate agents
step
ahead of fellow real estate agents by
automate extracting real estate property information
for use with your application. Investor can extract daily
opening and closing stock price for
charting, or daily mutual information to
keep up with investment. Business can
extract tabular data from a web site
and use it with Microsoft Excel, Access,
your own business application, or transfer to your
database.
Most data you extract form web
site can be used on your own application.
There is no need to spend hours and hours of
manual work just to enter data.
Automation software can eliminate
many
labor-intensive,
time-consuming, and repetitive IT
and business process tasks. There are many
advantages of using automation software,
such as Automation Anywhere.
-
Free up your employee
valuable time to focus on other
activities where human interaction is
required.
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Reduce company
expense by eliminating hiring temporary
staff. You can automate as many tasks as
your can.
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Meeting deadline
timely and effectively.
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Reduces cost without having to deal
with complexity of codes, scripts, batch files,
and custom application development.
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Increase reliability, productivity, speed,
and control.
