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What is a digital workflow?
Taking one step closer to the autonomous enterprise
Automation technologies are evolving to transform how enterprises will operate, empower employees, and serve customers in the year ahead. And digital workflows are a big part of the equation.
Organizations use digital workflows to coordinate employee activities and to synchronize data between systems. The goal is to improve efficiency, responsiveness, and profitability as businesses redefine the future of work within an autonomous enterprise.
But what is a digital workflow? It's the definition, execution, and automation of business processes. Tasks, information, and documents pass from one participant to another for action, according to a set of procedural rules.
Now you might be wondering – so what is a workflow process? And what types of workflows are available? Let's take a look.
A digital workflow process automates a stream of employee activities. It reduces processing time, helps eliminate the potential for human error, and makes governance easier to manage. Simply put, with digital workflows, managers and employees can act faster and make smarter, more informed decisions.
The following types of workflows are currently in use:
Successful organizations adapt and customize their IT to meet employee and customer demand for better services and experiences. The challenge for IT is to find solutions that allow users to maintain control of the business logic embedded in existing processes.
That's where intelligent business process management software (iBPMS) can help.
iBPMS is an integrated collection of critical systems for digitizing, automating, and managing digital workflows. Today, iBPMS combines with systems of engagement for an orchestration layer that connects people to , applications, systems, and data. It incorporates analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), robotic process automation, and more.
As the iBPMS and low-code application platform markets converge, users will be able to create digital workflow applications in the cloud faster and easier than ever before.
Now we can explore what a digital workflow might look like in your business.
And what happens when all of this comes together?
Today's digital workflow software is supercharged with modeling, execution, simulation, optimization, and monitoring features to accelerate digital transformation.
By introducing AI into digital workflows, intelligent automation starts to come into its own. With intelligent automation fueling digital workflows, businesses can generate data-driven insights to continuously uncover better ways of working.