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Software Automation
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What is Software Automation ?
Also know by some as Business Process Automation or BPA or BPM, Software
Automation is a process of automating systems, either individually or
collectivily, to input into or work with existing business data and
Workflow processes via software systems. An external system manages the
interaction using a series of intelligent scripts, managed by a console
either locally and/or remotely. The applications manage data from one
system to another, recording and reporting all changes.
Where would we use Software Automation ?
The
automation process is perfect for
any repetitive process you perform in software, from testing to
heart-beat monitoring to data loading or extracting.
Why Software Automation ?
Obviously there are huge cost benefits to integrating a number of
systems and removing repetition in an organisation without changing the
underlying systems, but there are a number of other, often unrealised
benefits :
Eliminate Human Error
Avoid those small errors that cost so much, and free your employees from
drudgery.
Avoid database copies including corrupt data
Most projects don't sufficiently clean their data before the data is
inputted to the database. Using Automation, all data can be included in
the new database VIA THE NEW FRONTEND AND ALL ASSOCIATED RULES that your
developers, users and testers have so carefully confirmed.
No longer will you find incorrect data in your system after go-live.
Shorten project times
Automation can improve testing cycles, data migration, training system
setup, client copies - if you do it twice or more, consider automating
it.
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How does Software
Automation Work ?
With no integration, automate any
process across any number of software applications. An add-on "layer" of
functionality, an independent application, opens and works with your
other software applications. Once you see this working, you'll realise
the power of software automation.
Where do the applications run ?
Automation tools run on a dedicated machine ( typically an old
Workstation PC ) and record the processes normal users run every day.
These scripts are then automated with logic and intelligence, looped and
linked with data stores, allowing you to run regular, continuous or
occasional processes.
Automation can be scaled very easily - run from one or more dedicated Computers,
splitting data between them, and can be at
any level - GUI only, GUI with monitoring or remotely controlled with
alerts.
Implementing an automation system typically takes days. For example, a
data automation process took two days to implement and four days to
upload 19,000 items for a logistics systems.
How do we control Automation ?
Our solutions are typically failsafe- they include alerts should a
process be on hold or stop,
after hours scheduling so that items can be run around backups,
management applications that control the entire process, and reporting
and monitoring tools that show progress and results. Also, notification
via SMS, email, websites and application managers can easily be added.
Create a lean, learning software organisation.
A software management team that have seen Automation begin to eliminate
waste in their organisation - where manufacturers eliminate physichal
waste, service industries eliminate wasted time and effort - and your
software team will learn to automate anything that is valuably
automated.
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Areas in which to use Automation :
Among the other applications for Software automation are :
heart-beat monitoring, response timing, end-to-end transaction timing,
remote processes, timed processes and after hours scheduling. Also,
notification via SMS, email, websites and anything else a user can process.
Automate complex and
lengthy tasks across multiple applications such as task automation,
automated testing, regression testing, test management and stress testing
for SAP, Web, Windows, Delphi and a host of other programming languages.
Click here
to find out more
about Automation Solutions
Software automation PDF
Data cleaning, list de-duping
/ data de-duplications /
removing
duplicates using excel and automation PDF
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Data and Automation :
Repetitive Data input is the most obvious
and immediately successful area of automation, but there are many areas in
which Automation can help
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Data Extraction
- recording of a process of copying all the fields in
a record, for example one outlook contact, one website report, one sales
order, and then incrementing logically through the records you
wish to extract, either one by one, alphabetically or via an external list
of records.
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Data Validation and verification
– checking data in a system, perhaps updating it, copying data from one
system to another, changing an element of the data ( eg delivery date
updates, tolerances, etc ) or simply confirming that the data contains
certain information. Updating hundreds of thousands of records in a database
or updating every person in your system with their new HR number ? This
would be a useful once off automation process.
Data
Loading
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Do you regularly update systems using repetitive data ? or upload
information manually from spreadsheets, emails or any other fairly formatted
data ? If so, we can record the process, automate it, and link it directly
to a spreadsheet. Now you will spend your time scanning the data and
checking it, push a button and the system will update automatically. |
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