Intelligent Automation - the What and the When

Rob Weddepohl
3 May 2024
5 min read

What is it? 

Intelligent automation (IA) leverages automation technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation (RPA) to deliver better business outcomes in the form of:

  • Improved Productivity - increase processing volumes (scale) whilst maintaining OpEx
  • Time Management - accelerate processing time (speed) through digital worker efficiencies.
  • Reducing Errors - reducing rework (cost) due to inaccuracies in manual processes across the organisation, improving the overall quality of your data assets.
  • Improve and Accelerate Decision Making - through automated next best action, what if analysis and cognitive tools to help you think outside the box.

When do you use it?

Intelligent Automation (IA)is one of several options to address productivity, process improvement & better decisions:

When do businesses use Intelligent Automation?

Some industry examples of using intelligent automation:

Cross Industry Based

  • Real-Time Recommendations
  • Immediate Alerting Systems
  • Anomaly Detection

General

  • Data Extraction
  • Data Entry & Update

Customer Service

  • Interacting with Customers
  • KYC Onboarding

Finance

  • Payroll Processing
  • Order-to-cash (O2C)
  • Accounts receivable (AR)
  • Accounts payable (AP)
  • Record to Report (R2R)

Human Resources

  • Recruitment
  • Employee Onboarding and Offboarding

Sales & Marketing

  • Price Optimisation
  • Bid Adjustment
  • Lead Nurturing

Insurance

  • Underwriting
  • Claims Processing
  • Fraud Detection

Financial Services

  • Know Your Customer (KYC)
  • Loan Processing
  • Anti money laundering (AML)

HealthCare

  • Appointment Scheduling
  • Health insurance processing

Retail

  • Inventory Management
  • Returns Processing

Manufacturing

  • Predictive Maintenance
  • Bill of Materials (BOM) creation

If you would like to learn more about intelligent automation solutions and want to discuss your particular use cases, then please reach out to our team at Lassio