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Services | Office automation
Office automation (or software automation) usually involves automating mundane tasks that you perform repeatedly on a computer.
This is in contrast to business process management, which looks to automate many steps in a process.
Examples of simple tasks you perform repeatedly include:
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We'll help you to find the right solution to automate your business.
We use the term office automation to cover a few difference ways of automating your office.
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Don't worry if you find these terms confusing. We'll help you to find the right solution to automate your business.
If you find you're always doing the same steps, time after time, day after day without much thought, then you need to automate those tasks.
Do any of your team's tasks look like this?
Automating those mundane tasks leaves you and your team free to do more important, more meaningful, more valuable, and more fulfilling work.
Automation can do in seconds some jobs that it takes hours for your team to do.
Computers are great at doing the same job over and over again. They're not curious, they don't get bored or distracted.
Let office automation handle the mundane, repetitive tasks.
Use your team for the things they are good at: using intelligence, intuition, empathy, creativity… all things that automation may never be able to do.
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Microsoft® Office applications—Word, Excel, Outlook and Access—come with a hidden superpower. They all include an in-built programming language called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) can be used to automate many day-to-day tasks.
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We'll help you to find the right solution to automate your business.
Scripts run like macros, but instead of being restricted to working inside Microsoft® Office applications, they can run in Microsoft® Windows.
Database scripts are used to manipulate data in a database. Database scripts are written in a language called Structured Query Language (SQL).
SQL scripts can be imbedded in Microsoft Excel files to quickly pull data from a data source and present it in a familiar way.
A browser extension is a small add-in that customises how your web browser reads web pages.
They can be be used to add new features to existing web pages, or to extract data from the page you're viewing.
Don't worry if you find these terms confusing. We'll help you to find the right solution to automate your business.
Cloud automation platforms link your cloud-based apps together. They can update one system when information changes in another system.
Cloud-based automation platforms are also easy to understand and set up. They don't require any coding knowledge, and are designed to be used by everyday business people.
Robotic process automation (RPA) is a newer form of business process automation technology.
RPA is designed to be used by everyday business people, not developers.
You can configure software "robots" (or digital workers) by letting the system watch you perform an action on screen. It will remember every step, and can then repeat this as many times as you like, faster and more accurately than any human user.
RPA systems can interact with different software, visit webpages, copy information and even make some simple logic-based decisions.
Your business and situation is unique. But here are a few ways that our clients tell us they have benefited from our office automation services.
Your business will benefit from having a guide on hand to help you make the right decision, to point out any potential problems, and support you to really get the most out of your new system.
Your business will benefit from the fresh perspective that an independent business analyst will bring.
Being on the outside looking in, we can sometimes get a clearer view of what you need.
Your business will benefit from impartial, unbiased advice.
We're not trying to sell you any one system. We're on your side. If we think something is in your best interests, we'll tell you about it.
You can relax, it's not all on you.
You can be confident, knowing that your software is being selected the right way, supported by specialists, using a proven methodology.
You get to ask questions, run things past us and use us as a sounding board.
No question is a stupid question, and we're happy to share what we know.
Let us set up your automation for you.
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If you're looking for whole new systems for your business, then see our Software Selection service.