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One of the main reasons I came to Redwood Software in January of 2022 was because I saw the opportunity the technology and the space presented. Helping companies automate mission-critical business processes was exciting to me. As I went about getting to know my new teammates, and learning more and more about what we did, it became clear the focus of our organization was exactly where it should be: on our customers. And how we could help them solve a current or near-term future challenges.
Rome wasn’t built in a day. Over centuries, the Romans and their descendants have constructed the city, layering modern buildings on top of medieval architecture and ancient walls and temples. Rome has become a confusing – albeit magical – historical site, functioning as both a celebrated monument and a thriving metropolis. What Rome sacrifices for its grandeur are clarity and efficiency in its layout. Enterprises can find themselves like Rome as they piecemeal together their workload automation “WLA”/job scheduling and automation tools.
Before every flight, pilots run through a checklist of their instruments and gear. They ensure everything is aligned, functioning properly, secure and finely tuned. They know the importance of every itinerary and the urgency of arriving safely. Although lives aren’t on the line, in a cloud modernization journey, your enterprise operations are. Your IT team must ensure that your instruments and gear – your workload automations – are equipped and ready to go. Workload automation is a critical factor in the success of your modernization,
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Workload automation has transformed the way IT handles its workflows — taking tedious, manual tasks and creating automated end-to-end processes across different enterprise applications. Many organizations saw the potential in automation, implementing it in specific areas of their business. While this targeted approach to business areas delivered greater efficiency and accuracy of workflows, it also created siloes and disjointed operation through the use of multiple automation tools. Forward-looking IT leaders are now looking to evolve their automation approach,
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This article was originally published in 2023. Now in 2024, we reflect on the lessons and takeaways from last year and prepare for what’s to come this year in IT and business process automation. Redwood Chief Product Officer Abhijit Kakhandiki shares predictions in Automation ROI, Hyperautomation, Generative AI for Automation — What’s Coming in 2024 to have you making the right moves and investments. As we move further into the digital age,
As many trivia fans know, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the tallest building in the world. At 163 stories, the skyscraper soars so far into the sky that, from the highest floors, you can still see the sun for several minutes after it sets at ground level. But one of the most awe-inspiring parts of the tower is something you can’t see – its foundation. Built deep into the ground, the concrete and steel foundation supports 450,000 metric tons of weight,
We at Redwood believe in the transformative power of automation and how our products enable our customers to do what they do better. Our dedication to our customers’ success remains at the forefront of everything we do. In alignment with that commitment, we are proud to announce a new role within the Redwood organization: Chief Automation Evangelist. This role is designed to provide our customers with an advocate specifically focused on accelerating and supporting their automation programs on an executive level.
It’s not uncommon for IT organizations to have a mixed bag of workload automation (WLA) and scheduling software. In fact, 60% of organizations say they are using more than one WLA tool, according to a new survey of IT and business professionals by industry analysts EMA. This accumulation of WLA tools builds up over the years through mergers, acquisitions, or different departments making their own product selections in isolation. But these siloed islands of automation store up all kinds of technical debt and inefficiencies that impact the business.
As business processes and workflows become more and more complex, the risks associated with inefficiency, errors and sluggishness to adopt modern practices go up dramatically. Fortunately, there is a solution to mitigate those risks — job orchestration. Here, we’ll explain how job orchestration tools can bring your enterprise into the next generation of efficient, reliable, automated IT orchestration solutions. What job orchestration is Simply put, job orchestration is taking disparate business processes throughout your enterprise and bringing their oversight and management together in one location.
Last week, I attended SAP Sapphire 2022. It was great to see people face-to-face and connect with colleagues, SAP experts, and customers in Orlando, Florida. The event was really focused on three major themes, speed of business change, supply chain disruption, and sustainability. Below are my key takeaways from the event. A renewed commitment to customer value SAP has been showing increased commitment to helping customers achieve real business value with the RISE with SAP initiative for S/4HANA.
This article was published in 2022 at a time when the pandemic was accelerating digital transformation for many organizations. Now in 2024, business process automation has come a long way as enterprises continue to evolve cloud strategies and incorporate emerging technologies such as AI. See what automation expert and Redwood Chief Product Officer Abhijit Kakhandiki is predicting for this year in his post Automation ROI, Hyperautomation, Generative AI for Automation — What’s Coming in 2024.
This article was published in 2022 based on then-current findings and insights from Gartner and Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) industry analysts. Visit Redwood Analyst Pieces page to access the most recent resources from industry analysts. Industry analysts like Gartner and Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) have spoken, and the message is clear: workload automation for business processes across an enterprise is absolutely essential in the current workplace landscape. Those who aren’t implementing new functionality and integration capabilities from modern workload automation platforms can expect to rapidly fall behind the competition.
This article is based in part on our eBook, “The Future Is Now: Why It’s Time To Invest In Workload Automation.” Today’s enterprises are deploying new technologies and realigning them to their business strategies. The goal for most is to improve flexibility as they navigate dynamic challenges and circumstances. This includes adapting to lockdowns and social distancing, evolving consumer expectations and supply chain uncertainty. For most enterprises, this represents a new normal — the world is quickly changing and the organizations that can adapt the quickest are most likely to succeed.
Clocks can keep your business ticking along in precision as it should, right? It sounds logical, but when it comes to automating business processes in your organization, the clock has significant limitations. Scheduling processes to run at certain times of the day creates a fragile, brittle system that can easily go wrong and disrupt your entire organization. In IT operations, you must guess when a process should begin, and how long it will take, in order to schedule the next one.
You understand the benefits that modern SaaS-based workload automation solution can bring to your organization, and you’re ready to move away from your existing technology. Now it’s time to think about migrating to the new solution. This process can seem daunting, especially if you have a vast inventory of processes built on various on-premises legacy solutions over many years. We at Redwood can help. You may even be surprised at how less daunting the process can be.
It sounds like something out of a ‘50’s B-movie, but your business could be in danger of being crushed by clones – cloned variants of existing processes that are nearly identical. A simple task like backing up servers can lead to tens of thousands of nearly-identical cloned processes — one for each server — getting in the way and costing you money. How does this happen? Many automation tools require a separate job definition for each variant of a process,
What do we mean by technical debt in the context of workload automation? It’s an accumulation of quick fix workarounds that build up as a result of the limitations of old and out-of-date legacy scheduling or workload automation tools. These workarounds are called “debt” because they’re compromises that add an ongoing and future burden to the organization that can only be repaid by extra work. Technical debt costs a huge amount of manual effort and time as your best team members become firefighters,
As your organization advances through digital transformation, it’s only natural that you want the applications that will drive the changes and improvements to be a good fit with your organization and be the best at what they do. And, as these best-of-breed apps will be crucial to your business operations, they need to be integrated into your process automation capabilities. That can be easier said than done, however. Many automation solutions may not support applications outside a narrow ecosystem without customization,
When automating business processes for your organization, having software that is easy to implement and use will help you to get value faster. You want workload automation that allows everyone in IT to be productive quickly and to have enough confidence in the software to be able to focus on other work that adds more value. There is increasing adoption of “low-code” easy-to-use systems intended for non-technical people, or “citizen developers.” Modern workload automation solutions like Redwood’s RunMyJobs® use these same concepts to simplify the effort in building automated processes.
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