Category: Workato

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Markus Zirn; Here at Workato, we’re always working to make your job better. This year we launched the first-ever business systems community, our customers gave us the highest ‘Overall Satisfaction Rating’ of all the Enterprise platforms in TrustRadius’s latest iPaaS Buyer’s Guide, and we were ranked by Gartner as a leader in the iPaaS MQ for the second year in a row. And now, we’re excited to be partnering with Dropbox to empower teams to work better and more efficiently with automation. “Our goal at Dropbox is to make work easier, and remove friction ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; This piece is part of our Digital Change Agents Series – Bay Area. When a business process intersects with multiple teams’ systems, how do you go about making it more efficient? Erik Lopez, Senior Business Systems Manager at Lucidchart, suggests that—much like the dictionary—it’s all about definitions. With its intuitive and collaborative diagramming solution, LucidChart is a leading tool for thought mapping. It’s no surprise, then, that Lopez applies a similarly rigorous framework to all of his projects. “I provide the internal support our employees need so they can focus on the ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; This is a guest post by Fab Capodicasa, Managing Director of Hoosh Marketing. Most marketers have seen the beautiful MarTech stack pictures, such as the one below from Microsoft—and felt either awe or envy. Scott Brinker, the ‘father of MarTech’ and originator of the Stack SuperGraphic, even runs a yearly competition called the Stackies, which recognize the best MarTech architectures. Though some argue the Stackies are a self-indulgent vanity exercise, Brinker sees the awards as educational. He believes that everyone in the marketing community benefits from seeing how their peers organize their ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; This is a guest post by Fab Capodicasa, Managing Director of Hoosh Marketing. Most marketers have seen the beautiful MarTech stack pictures, such as the one below from Microsoft—and felt either awe or envy. Scott Brinker, the ‘father of MarTech’ and originator of the Stack SuperGraphic, even runs a yearly competition called the Stackies, which recognize the best MarTech architectures. Though some argue the Stackies are a self-indulgent vanity exercise, Brinker sees the awards as educational. He believes that everyone in the marketing community benefits from seeing how their peers organize their ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; Today, organizations are investing in digital more than ever before. According to IDC, global digital transformation spending will top $2.1 trillion by 2020. A large chunk of this spending will go towards automation technologies that can eliminate manual work and cut costs. Forrester predicts that the market for just one form of automation—robotic process automation, or RPA—will amount to $2.9 billion in the next three years. RPA isn’t the only automation technology out there, however. As automation platforms evolve, a new approach has emerged: intelligent automation. By combining five core technologies (smart ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; Chat apps like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Cisco Spark promise to revolutionize the way employees work. In fact, Gartner predicts that by the end of 2022, 70% of teams will rely on chat apps as their primary means of communication, coordination, and information sharing. Their versatility as a work hub has even lead to a new term to describe these platforms: workstream collaboration. But in order to realize this goal, there’s a lot of work to be done on the backend. To be truly useful, for example, your chat app needs to ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Markus Zirn; The enterprise automation challenge and opportunity has never been greater. As a result, an assortment of technologies have sprung up in an attempt to solve it, offering different solutions and approaches aimed to perform different types of automation and be used by different kinds of users. The lack of a cohesive strategy around these approaches has been a huge obstacle for enterprises. Enterprise Automation is a hard technology challenge – made harder by the need to disappear the technology and make it accessible to non-coders. Our maniacal focus on this led to ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; Originally founded almost 200 years ago, Canada’s #1 luxury retailer has grown into a premier high-end shopping destination. Offering the best in-store experiences is a top priority for the company. To best serve customers (and employees), the retailer needs information from multiple systems to make intelligent decisions about store staffing, to escalate customer concerns appropriately, and to offer competitive employee discounts. Without a team of dedicated integration developers, the retailer turned to Workato as a way of building out these integrations and automations quickly. APPS WorkdayIBM WatsonPOS systemCHALLENGES Creating complex integrations quickly ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: James Furbush; Fresenius Medical Care is a global Fortune 500 company based in Germany and North America that provides a range of services and products to help aid patients in renal dialysis and other medical needs. With 325,000 renal patients globally being cared for in more than 3,800 dialysis clinics, and more than 100,000 employees worldwide, Fresenius has become one of the top providers in the world for patients with kidney issues. APPS Quick BaseSalesforce VeevaPrologSAPSharepointCHALLENGES Facility projects needed better data and more efficient workflows in order to complete construction faster and provide patients ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; A 2017 McKinsey report predicted that as many as 800 million jobs could be lost worldwide to automation by 2030. But while automation will eliminate some jobs, the World Economic Forum foresees that another 130 million jobs will be created in the next five years.   This is partially because, as technologies like automation become more prevalent within the enterprise, companies will need more skilled workers to manage those technologies. A great example of this is the rise of the business systems function. These tech experts support organizational growth by delivering robust ... Read More