Driving Successful RPA Implementation with Automated Process Discovery

Business process discovery, or process discovery for short, is the collection of tools and techniques used to define, map and analyze an organization’s existing business processes. This is a critical component for successful business process management (BPM) initiatives and RPA implementations.

Process Intelligence or PI is the latest buzzword in technology and it is changing the way organizations tackle process discovery, process analysis, and continuous process improvement in a really amazing way.

Process Intelligence’s discovery of the current as-is state of an organization’s business processes provides a baseline for process improvements and identifies key problem areas to be addressed for improvement, eliminating guesswork during the pre-implementation phase of RPA. Traditional process discovery tools and techniques have been mostly manual, but by utilizing sophisticated AI and using some of the same data already being gathered and used in business intelligence (BI) and business analytics tools, process leaders can drastically improve pre-automation process assessment and discovery.

Let me give you an everyday analogy that illustrates this: If your car told you one of your tires had low air pressure but not which one, or how low it was, you would not know which needed the extra air. The only way for you to figure out which tire it was would be to get out of the car and test each tire yourself manually. Prior to an RPA deployment, organizations can spend months identifying the areas that would benefit from the automation itself. Now, if your car told you exactly which tire had low air pressure, would you still spend the time checking each one? … Continue reading …