What is business process automation software?

Business automation, better known as business process automation (BPA), refers to the automation of manual, repetitive tasks in order to increase efficiency and reduce manual errors. Business process automation solutions provide no-code or low-code workflow development, real-time monitoring and alerting, auto-remediation, script life cycle management tools, and much more. Automate business processes in half the time. Automate business processes in half the time.

What is an example of a BPA?

Virtually any digital process in business can be automated. This includes automating document management, data entry, employee onboarding processes, content management, purchase orders, customer experience flows, integrating business apps, and more. BPA software reduces manual errors, helps to streamline processes, and increases efficiency so employees can focus on higher-level projects. See what you can accomplish with ActiveBatch.

How do you automate business processes?

Business process management (BPM) solutions enable users to evaluate and optimize business processes and standardize procedures. The demand to manage more tools and process more data has rapidly expanded, creating complex, high-volume environments that become impossible to handle without automation. The need for BPM solutions evolved into workload automation solutions, going beyond managing to automating and created less manual work. To be most effective, a workload automation platform should be first be full stack, meaning you can automate across your entire tech stack regardless of the tools or apps being used. ActiveBatch lets you streamline processes end-to-end across cloud-based and on-premises environments, with robust integrations with AWS EC2, Microsoft Azure, VMware and more. Easily connect to any application, server or service without custom scripting using ActiveBatch’s Super REST API adapter. This allows users to easily connect to any application, server or service without having to write custom scripts. Explore ActiveBatch’s full API accessibility. This can also aid in proper resource allocation and provisioning with dynamically cloud resource management to match workload processing demands and automate key tasks like the provisioning/de-provisioning of virtual machines, security tasks, reboots and more. Explore ActiveBatch’s integration capabilities. Secondly your workload automation platform should be low-code/no-code, requiring little to no development capabilities with drag-and-drop automation building and friendly user interfaces. See how you can manage business processes with ActiveBatch.

Business Process Automation Software

Bring business and IT together

To optimize your IT workforce and get the most out of your technology investments, you need to evaluate the multitude of business processes and workflows running across the many softwares and apps in your tech stack. And determine where you can implement automation solutions.

Business process management is a key part of efficiency and optimizing your team. Failing to identify how to connect and streamline automation tools will have disconnected workflows and your team stuck doing time-consuming, repetitive tasks and manual data entry. Not only is this time consume and operationally inefficient, but you’re constantly running the risk of human error.

That’s where business process automation software comes in. You can automation workflows and even entire processes using intelligent automation with templates, no-code development and even artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities.

Discover business process automation

Once businesses relied on robotic process automation (RPA) for their basic automation technology. Now with the influx of apps and use of technology across so many functions within a business, you need something more advanced but that also makes your life easier, not more complex.

This led to the rise of business process automation. Not all business process automation software is equal. It’s important you identify what you need in your automation technology to support your business’s digital transformation efforts, use cases and streamline the number of automation tools your managing.

With an easy to comprehend user interface, intuitive dashboards and no-code automation development, ActiveBatch by Redwood is the preferred workload automation platform in regards to business process automation tools. If you’re a strapped IT department managing a growing tech stack, ActiveBatch makes it possible to quickly and easily automate business processes and improve your operational efficiency with little to know experience with automation technology. Whether working in Excel or using an RPA tool, implementing ActiveBatch is easy with Redwood’s proven migration process and specialized tooling. This means you can have entire processes automated end-to-end in no time. This could be everything from critical HR processes and employee onboarding to finance process and more. The result is a better user experience, less manual tasks, streamlined operations and even more informed decision-making with fewer human errors and real-time reporting.

ActiveBatch’s integrated Job Steps Library

Endless drag-and-drop integrations

ActiveBatch is a no-code workflow automation tool that provides pre-built connectors to today’s most used enterprise applications plus low-code API accessibility, enabling IT to build dynamic, end-to-end workflows that reduce repetitive IT tasks and accelerate digital transformation.

Most common uses are:

Critical business app automation: Microsoft apps suite, HR platforms, enterprise resource planning (ERP), business process management (BPM), and BI tools
Legacy task automation: Windows Task Scheduler jobs, SCORCH (System Orchestration Center) workflows and SQL Server scheduling
Automated incident management: bi-directional integrations for industry leaders like ServiceNow and SCSM
Secure file transfers: MFT, SFTP and FTPS with advanced file event triggers and parallel transfer capabilities

BPA software or business process automation software is the best way to empower your team to get more done, eliminate redundancy and enhance repeatability within their business processes, and experience true digital transformation. With business process automation systems in your toolbox, you can streamline processes, optimize business operations and eliminate human error from your manual processes too.

Advanced scheduling capabilities

Reliable, timely business process automation

Minimize manual interventions with an array of event triggers for business and IT tasks, including email, file events, FTP file triggers, data modifications and more. Reduce delays and unnecessary executions with constraint-based scheduling and granular date/time scheduling. With ActiveBatch, IT teams worry less about time-consuming processes and permissions, so they focus more on innovation. With fewer notifications, and automation applied to repetitive tasks, your IT team can benefit from true workflow management and manage fewer tasks themselves.

Self-service portal

Self-service automation platform for business users

IT is being democratized. Whether it’s through robotic process automation (RPA) or low-code app development, business users are implementing more and more digital tools that increase IT complexity.

ActiveBatch Self-Service Portal allows business users to execute and monitor their own processes, accelerating time-to-insight for critical data and reports while keeping IT in control of process development, compliance, and governance. IT project management can now benefit from robotic process automation where bots become the connector to a variety of work apps, and help IT teams manage output, intelligently.

Smart queue and heuristic queue allocation

Intelligent automation for maximum scalability

ActiveBatch provides out-of-the-box integrations with cloud vendors including Amazon, Microsoft and VMware. Streamline the management of hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Users can leverage powerful tools such as ActiveBatch smart queue or leverage artificial intelligence with ActiveBatch's heuristic queue allocation to dynamically provision the right resources at the right time. By offering this level of resource management, ActiveBatch is contributing to the scalability of our customers’ organizations.