Best Practice Report

If Your Company Runs On Excel, It’s Time For Process Orchestration

Leap To The Next Level Of Automation Scaling

January 29th, 2024
Bernhard Schaffrik, Principal Analyst
Bernhard Schaffrik Principal Analyst
With contributors:
Glenn O'Donnell , Merve Kandemir

Summary

Faced with dull, repetitive tasks, employees try to simplify and automate these tasks, often using the tools they have to hand. If Microsoft Excel is one of these tools, you might find Excel files wherever applications are badly connected or complicated to use. At many organizations, the overuse of Excel can signal process execution shortcomings — and present opportunities to improve those processes. This report describes how process orchestration can provide a way to get out of Excel and build bridges between automation islands.

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