Automation: Technology Trend that will Define the Next Decade
Gagan Pattanayak, CEO, Prodevans, Singapore
2021-11-01
 We may not be living on Jupiter or traveling to work using jet packs, but there's no dilemma that the coming decade will bring innumerable exciting technological advances. Just like how automation has become a crucial part of the modern-day world and businesses. Organizations progressively leverage automation technologies to automate tiresome, repetitive and wearisome tasks and processes, magnify performance and become more efficient. While businesses are investing tremendously towards the digitalization of their processes, new automation technologies will keep on progressing, while existing solutions will advance further.
Though keeping a track of what is new in automation might be a challenge, here are the top four automation trends to watch out for:
Hyperautomation
Gartner predicts the scope of automation over the next few years to evolve from definite tasks and transactions based on fixed and firm rules to automating regular work. Here, hyperautomation will play a crucial role. It is an amalgamation of several exponential technologies such as RPA, Machine Learning software and AI, to take the automation of organizational processes to a more advanced level. Hyper-automation will result in increased rates of productivity and wider access to data, additionally helping decision makers to take informed decisions for their customers leveraging data and analytics. Keeping track of a range of automation mechanisms, how they are relevant to one another and how they can be combined and coordinated is a prime facet for hyperautomation.
Growth of Cloud Automation
Automating menial tasks may seem like it is just about technology, but it is more about transformation strategy. Cloud-based automation is the precise solution to persistently ascending demands from organizations as they are moving towards cloud data centers for data management. The users of cloud infrastructures can quickly get access to the resources with the cloud automation system. Cloud automation is not built into the cloud. It basically requires expertise and the use of specialized tools. Companies can leverage this technology from several public cloud vendors.
Robotic Process Automation or RPA
Robotic Process Automation, or RPA, is automating jobs that are taking technology to another level. This technology is useful in automating organized and repetitive business operations, giving time to human workers to focus on more intricate, value-adding work.
It automates various business proceedings such as rendering applications, processing transactions, coping with enormous data and even answering emails. RPA automates repetitive tasks and makes them more simplified. Previously, RPA was primarily used for attended automation. As we proceed to the next decade, there will be a growth in the use of a hybrid RPA platform that works well for both attended as well as unattended automation. With this cognitive RPA, companies will be able to mobilize intelligent bots that can relate and adapt to transforming scenarios. It will help to enhance their functionality and procedures from back-office businesses to front office tasks as well.
The Age of AI
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has already gained enough trend cards in recent years, but it continues to be in buzz because it directly impacts the way we work, live and grow. Solutions leveraging the power of artificial intelligence are already paying off in automation and tasks productivity. They mimic human intelligence and perform tasks such as recognition of images, speech or patterns, and decision making. AI can carry out these tasks faster and more accurately than humans. The AI automated tasks of the next decade will be capable of assessing a scenario, understanding any change, and adapting and responding accordingly. With these automated tasks preparing to penetrate deeper into the everyday lives and routine processes, a smarter future is not as distant as we might think.
Conclusion
It's not only technology that's transforming, but it's also the interaction between technology and humans. Although they are emerging and evolving all around us, these four technologies offer promising advanced potential and reflect that the future of automation will look like an entirely new landscape.
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