Category: Workato

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Ashley Austin; One of my favorite parts of working for Workato is meeting what I call “Workato Champions”: people who preach the power of integration and automation to their organizations. These digitally-minded agents of change are at the core of our relationships with our customers. And they’re not all executives or directors; many of them are everyday employees in sales, marketing, IT, and HR. It’s always inspiring to see people champion workflows that solve real problems, helping them and their colleagues work smarter, not harder. But it can also be incredibly frustrating. Over and ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; Business-critical processes often rely on moving large amounts of data. Even things that customers take for granted—like a package showing up on time, for example—requires massive orchestration of data across complex systems. Moving this data around quickly (and accurately) is crucial to preventing snafus and keeping costs down. But though critical, it can also be expensive and time-consuming to do. Custom integrations can be expensive to build and even more expensive to maintain—especially if you rely on external firms to do it for you. Recently, robotic process automation (RPA) has emerged as ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Kristine Colosimo; Grab is Southeast Asia’s leading online-to-offline (O2O) platform serving 1 in 6 people in the region. With an $11 billion valuation and high-profile investors like Toyota, Vulcan Capital, Macquarie Capital, and Lightspeed Venture Partners, the company now provides private car services, motorcycle taxis, last mile delivery, ride sharing, food delivery, and e-payment services. Its co-founder, Hooi Ling Tan, says Grab has ambitions to become Southeast Asia’s “everyday super app” that will serve the most essential daily needs of Southeast Asians. In May of 2018, Grab bought out Uber’s Southeast Asia operations in ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Bhaskar Roy; Today Workato announced $25M in funding from Battery Ventures, Storm Ventures, ServiceNow, and Workday Ventures. We’re proud to be one of the only companies with investment from three of the largest SaaS companies – Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Workday. This investment will help us in our mission to do these 3 things: Distribute the work of integration and automation across more stakeholders in a company, not just specialists Deliver integration and automation projects 10x faster Unite IT and Business Teams with one platform for all All of these objectives allow businesses to scale ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Kristine Colosimo; Grab is Southeast Asia’s leading online-to-offline (O2O) platform serving 1 in 6 people in the region. With an $11 billion valuation and high-profile investors like Toyota, Vulcan Capital, Macquarie Capital, and Lightspeed Venture Partners, the company now provides private car services, motorcycle taxis, last mile delivery, ride sharing, food delivery, and e-payment services. Its co-founder, Hooi Ling Tan, says Grab has ambitions to become Southeast Asia’s “everyday super app” that will serve the most essential daily needs of Southeast Asians. In May of 2018, Grab bought out Uber’s Southeast Asia operations in ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; Earlier this fall, Google announced that beginning in January 2019, it will no longer support SMS notifications for events on your Google Calendar. Instead, it will only offer in-app notifications for upcoming events. For the many people who relied on text message notifications to keep them on time and on track, this is a serious downer. But with a little integration magic, you don’t have to miss out on these handy text message reminders. Workato users can easily create a simple alternative to Google’s native SMS notifications. With our Community Recipes and ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; It’s no secret that artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the hottest enterprise technology trends. Though an Adobe study indicates that only 15% of enterprises are currently using AI, 31% say it is on their agenda for the next 12 months. And an even higher percentage of digitally mature businesses (47%, to be exact) say they have a defined AI strategy. This increasing level of investment in cognitive technologies has prompted a flurry of concerns ranging from the practical to the theoretical. Many analysts are quick to point out that, for all ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; Ricoma is a leading manufacturer of commercial embroidery equipment. As a global company, Ricoma maintains a presence in 140 countries, with its headquarters in Miami and a dedicated manufacturing facility is in Shenzhen, China. Its customers range from smaller local embroidery shops to large apparel operations. As a growing company, Ricoma recently reevaluated its technical toolkit. But after migrating to NetSuite, they realized that many of their processes needed to be automated as well. They began a journey to find a flexible, powerful iPaaS platform that could tie their enterprise apps together ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Bhaskar Roy; In any organization, the human resources (HR) team plays a crucial role in making the new employee experience wonderful and efficient. This responsibility starts the moment a new hire signs their contract and the employee onboarding process begins. But onboarding can be tough to execute well. From payroll to provisioning, there are so many distinct processes and tasks to complete! And these tasks need to be completed in a variety of apps and systems. There can be a lot of manual data entry, or you may need to wait for other departments ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Amlan Debnath; HR departments often face increasing pressure to not only attract but also retain highly sought after talent pools. After all, employees form the backbone of a company—and any strong business is only as good as its people. According to Capterra, 75% of hiring managers use either applicant tracking or recruiting software to improve their hiring process. And according to Gartner, cloud-based HR software expenditures are increasing faster than spending on on-premise solutions. In fact, HR cloud solutions will constitute 50% or more of all HR technology spending by the end of this ... Read More