Have you heard of Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) yet? It may be viewed as a simple equation, IPA = BPA (Business Process Automation) + RPA (Robotics Process Automation) .
BPA represents the long standing traditional way of automating processes over the years using technology to streamline activities and tasks and RPA being the emerging technology that seeks to employ Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to extract repetitive and mundane handled by human actors to that of ro-“bots” who’s job it is to improve efficiencies and reduce potential errors and omissions.
In this webinar, we show you various cross sections of approaches especially around the Microsoft Stack and Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s) like K2, on how you can achieve rapid success within your organization with a combination of what you may already own and what you can easily acquire to take your work processes to the next level.
2. Housekeeping
• Webinar is being recorded
• 45 minute session
• 15 minute Q&A session at the end
• Send in your questions!
• Type your questions in the Questions Pane
of the GotoWebinar Panel
• Slides and recording will be emailed after
the webinar
4. What to Expect From Today’s Webinar
• Withum Digital Overview
• Who we are / Where we specialize
• Integration, Workflow, Forms, Analytics
• K2 Overview
• Who we are / Why use K2
• Demo (K2 / UiPath / Flow / SAP)
• Technology Stack Discussion
• BPA/BPM
• RPA
• IPA
• Microsoft Azure / Cognitive Services
• Office 365
• Q & A
Agenda
8. Intelligent Process Automation
Electronic forms and workflow implementation (SharePoint,
Office 365, Flow, K2, Nintex)
Microsoft Azure and Cognitive Services & ISV (UiPath &
Foxtrot RPA)
Digital Signature (DocuSign, Adobe Sign)
Electronic surveys and data collection (Forms, Microsoft
Teams)
Drive better efficiencies with automation of business
processes using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine
Learning (ML)
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12. Provides the ability to
integrate across siloed
systems and emerging
technologies.
Provides better
visibility across
all applications.
Enables rapid
application development
with collaboration across
IT and the business.
Delivers a modern
application experience.
A LOW-CODE PLATFORM FOR PROCESS AUTOMATION
13. K2 DELIVERS THE FASTEST, SMARTEST
LOW-CODE PROCESS AUTOMATION PLATFORM
Build process
solutions quickly.
Empower IT and the
business to be more
efficient.
Control and manage all
your process applications.
14. K2 PRODUCTS
K2 Cloud
Managed by K2
Deployed in the cloud
Global scale and availability
Industry certifications
Multiple updates per year
K2 Five
Managed by customers
Deployed on-premises or in
private/public cloud
Updated annually
23. • Microsoft Flow
• Microsoft Cognitive
Services
• Bots Integration with
• Teams
• Planner
• SharePoint
• Outlook
Rich Office 365
Ecosystem
24. Microsoft Flow Works Inherently with K2
Use Native Flow Connectors to connect from Microsoft to your K2 On Premises or K2 Cloud
Instance
Create your own Custom Connectors for my granular access and invocation of processes
25. Have Flow Kick off K2
Workflows
• Have a Human or Bot
invoke a Web Request
• Pass Parameters to K2
• Start a Process
27. • Industry Leader in RPA
Technologies
• Strategic partnership
with major Process
ISV’s and SI’s
• Desktop Studio IDE as
well as Web Browser
Orchestration Platform
• Easy to use WYSIWYG
flow diagraming
tooling
• Built in Test/Runtime
experience
28.
29. • Diagram your process in
a way that is easy to
visualize and
understand
• Interact with the
Human behind the
screen, collect data,
respond to events
• Enable the robot to
carry out mundane and
tedious ‘busy work’ at
its own schedule and
scale
• Develop and Test in
real-time
• Publish and Deploy
immediately
34. • Integrate with K2
Tasks and Workflows
directly
• Create Sequences
and Flow Chart that
are Simple to
Complex
• Develop and Test in
real-time
• Publish and Deploy
immediately
Creating a K2 RPA
Sequence/Workflow in
the Studio
35. • Web Interface for
Orchestration and
Scheduling of Bot work
• Linking of
Environments and
Processes
Setting up a Cloud
Environment & Linking your
On Premises Robot Process
36. • Web Interface for
Orchestration and
Scheduling of Bot work
• Linking of
Environments and
Processes
Setting up your Army of
Robots to run your Processes
44. Hiring manager completed
job requisition and sends
for approval
HR and head of business group
review job requisition
Job requisition approved
Publish the open position
on multiple job boards
WEARE
HIRING
Standardized forms to capture
all the feedback using human
actors or RPA captured
information from other systems
Generate offer letter
and new hire forms
Maintain
employee records
Update
HR/Payroll database
Notify IT for
onboarding
HIRED
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ACCESS
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Pre-scan candidates
and set up onsite interview &
use ML/Cognitive Services to
vet public & other captured
information
Schedule 1:1 interviews
and gather feedback
Review collated
feedback
Hire candidate?
? YES
NO
Automate recruiting process
48. Talk to us about a free assessment of one of your current processes.
We will help asses it to see if it’s a good candidate for RPA or IPA
Next Steps
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So, what is causing these delays to automate your workflows and slowing down the pace of technology change in your organization?
IT typically needs to devote extensive time and costly development resources to planning, coding, testing and deploying.
While the demand for development increases, the talented developer skills gap also continues to grow
Datacenter resources are expensive to scale globally and too slow to build and rollout. New cloud infrastructure can help address this problem and make your apps available quickly in many different geographies. K2 runs on world class cloud infrastructure.
NEXT SLIDE: LOW CODE And BPM may be the solution
So, what is causing these delays to automate your workflows and slowing down the pace of technology change in your organization?
IT typically needs to devote extensive time and costly development resources to planning, coding, testing and deploying.
While the demand for development increases, the talented developer skills gap also continues to grow
Datacenter resources are expensive to scale globally and too slow to build and rollout. New cloud infrastructure can help address this problem and make your apps available quickly in many different geographies. K2 runs on world class cloud infrastructure.
NEXT SLIDE: LOW CODE And BPM may be the solution
While the CIO reports and analyst reports talk about cloud, IoT, mobile apps, the reality is that a large number of businesses still face the pressure to transform their paper-based, manual business processes. Surely, you are nodding as well as you feel some of this pain as well:
Manual processes that are error prone, costly and drive inefficiencies – leading to slow response and lack of auditing.
Review and approval process is lengthy, frustrating and manual – leading to unproductive work and unhappy staff and customers.
Challenges keeping up with the regulatory compliance requirements which can lead to a huge financial downfall
Challenges of integrating across many systems, data siloes and departments getting out of control with newer and shinier new apps on the cloud, hindering your ability to be agile.
LOB systems used and understood by only a few within your organization making integration possible only via expensive IT devs through custom coding, in short, leading to IT code dependence
Datacenter resources are expensive to scale globally and too slow to build and rollout. New cloud infrastructure can help address this problem and make your apps available quickly in many different geographies. K2 runs on world class cloud infrastructure.
The end result: businesses are not as efficient as they need to be ultimately leading to errors, inefficiencies, unsatisfied employees and customers. Linking all of these elements together with the business data is a daunting task for even the most mature enterprise IT departments and the growing developer and IT skills gap amplifies that challenge every day.
NEXT slide: NEXT SLIDE: LOW CODE And BPM may be the solution
So… why use K2? Well, the average company has 2000+ different applications and systems. These systems can range from off-the-shelf software packages like Salesforce or SAP to homegrown applications for Finance or HR.
Organizations often build processes or applications that interact directly with each system but aren’t integrated across the silos. Business processes rarely just touch a single system, so when integration needs arise, the work is typically done manually, resulting in error-prone, inefficient processes and work.
The best way to break down siloed systems and processes is with a platform that allows for integration across all systems and enables solutions that bring together people, processes and information.
So what does that look like?
Low-code process automation platforms provide the following key benefits:
Collaboration across IT and business to enable less technical process professionals to help with application creation, while also following IT guidelines around security and governance
Integration across siloed systems and leading-edge technologies to ensure that legacy systems can still be utilized while enabling a smarter way to build process applications through new technologies like AI, Machine learning and RPA
Better visibility across applications throughout the organization
K2’s process automation platform is uniquely designed to:
Enable rapid solution development through a powerful, low-code designer, reusable components and real-time integration with LOB systems and applications
Empower IT and the business to scale process automation across the enterprise through no-code solution development that doesn’t require a professional developer to spend weeks custom coding solutions
Enable control, compliance and governance across all your process applications and integrations to LOB systems through centralized management and security capabilities
Support the business’ needs for sophisticated process automation through our best-in-class workflow engine and process capabilities
Let’s look at how K2 business process apps fit into the bigger picture.
K2 apps communicate with and connect systems both on premises and in the cloud.
For example, you can create automated workflows that pull data from your on-premises servers and from your web services in the cloud—without writing code.
K2 forms, workflows, data and insights work seamlessly together and with all other line-of-business systems and data
The icons on the right are representative of the large number of products you can integrate with using K2 apps
K2 makes it possible to access any of your applications on a any form factor—dramatically increasing mobile access for both employees and customers alike
THE NEED
Drive critical LOB information deeper into the business
Modernize and simplify business apps for users
Deliver critical information to business users when they need it
Provide better situational information to business users regardless of informational source
Make this information actionable from a single user experience
Uncouple business processes to cut across business and technical silos
Combine on-premises and cloud data into a solution
Great in theory, but let’s take a look at a demo of this solution to show that it works.