Why Application Automation Should Be Part of IT Infrastructure

Implementing an ERP system or vertical application is a complex, expensive undertaking. Initial software purchase prices are high, with implementation costs often running two to three times the purchase price. An innovative application automation and job scheduling tool that is brought in at the beginning of a project and used as part of the infrastructure can significantly reduce implementation costs, and thereby reduce total project costs. A key source of the implementation cost is building business processes. Surprisingly, many packaged applications still rely on extensive manual effort to complete a business process. This manual intervention typically involves supplying data necessary for processing and validating the results of each step in the business process: checking date ranges, generating additional reports, validating file arrival and file contents, etc. There are numerous examples where the application vendor simply does not provide all of the necessary facilities to automate a given business process. The result is that critical processes are labor intensive, error prone, and consume inordinate amounts of time. Significant savings can be realized if a company reduces the time it takes to build these business processes, and if the business processes can be fully automated. Companies that are willing to think outside-the-box are discovering that adopting a new generation application automation and job scheduling tool at the beginning of a development project as part of the infrastructure can cut implementation costs substantially. ...More

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