Does Your Workflow Involve Automation?

Nowadays, it’s difficult to take any business application seriously if it doesn’t contain elements designed to make automation possible. Automation is a force multiplier that can literally allow your company to do more with less people and overall resources. As such, if you don’t take automation seriously when building your Linux program, it’s only a matter of time before a competitor overtakes you. Over time, lacking automation could also be the reason your organization needs to close its doors permanently. Whether you’re currently creating a business program or will be initiating legacy modernization soon, be sure you put some focus on automation.

For a fairly simple concept, a lot of people seem to suffer from some confusion as far as automation is concerned. Much of this has to do with the fact that it’s become quite the buzzword over the past few years.

To put it simply, automation refers to taking tasks that were once handled by your employees and turning them over to software to carry out. For example, in the past, many companies needed employees to manually process the orders they received. Nowadays, almost every organization that takes orders online has a form of software that can do it without the supervision of an employee.

One benefit of automation is that you get better results from your workforce. Use your employees for work that actually needs the human mind in order for tasks to get done correctly. Stop wasting their potential on menial chores a Linux application can take over. In some situations, you may even find it possible to reduce your workforce, saving you money.

Another good thing about taking employees away from repetitive tasks is that this will work to reduce human error as well. Just because a job is easy doesn’t mean people won’t screw it up from time to time, especially when they do it over and over during the course of their workday. Automation means those tasks get done the only way you programmed the software to do them.

Obviously, it should go without saying that a Linux application can do those aforementioned jobs much faster than your employees ever could. Just write the code for how you want a job handled and, going forward, click a button when you want it done. Better still, just schedule these jobs to get carried out correctly or program in a certain event (like someone placing an order) that will prompt the intended response.

Just because you already use a form of legacy software that doesn’t take advantage of automation, that’s no reason to continue suffering. The next time you begin a legacy modernization initiative, just be sure to implement this important feature. This type of addition is just one more reason modernization is so vital for the health of any company.

If your workflow doesn’t contain automation, your company is suffering unnecessarily. Fortunately, thanks to modernization, your Linux applications can all be updated to include this important element.