Workflows save companies tons of money per year, hours, and hours of repetitive tasks and allow the diversion of companies’ resources to more productive tasks. That’s why companies both big and small adopt various workflow management systems to streamline workflow management and get rid of devoting resources to repetitive and manual tasks. There is a new trend emerging: task-based workflows are taking on business application-based workflows. Let’s explore how the transition is happening and how businesses are taking advantage of the new trend.
What does the term workflow management mean?
The day-to-day work of companies involves different work with several steps, and usually involving different people and departments. If you look at the border picture, you will comprehend how the task shifts from one person to another in a sequence and that is essentially the workflow. From top to bottom of left to right, each successive step that is involved in completing a task constitutes a workflow.
How is task-based workflow taking over business applications-based workflow?
Task-based workflow divides each step of the task into individual components and tackles each one accordingly. There is a growing trend of adopting task-based workflows to optimize business processes. Here is the reason why;
- The first and foremost benefit of task-based workflow is time-saving. It significantly reduces the time needed for the management and completion of specific tasks.
- Each step is an individual task, therefore; there is a lower risk of errors and vulnerabilities since each step is completed separately, therefore allowing detection of errors in time.
- Seamless integration of business processes significantly lowers workforce requirements and hence offers a cost-effective solution to business process management.
- Task-based workflow results in a significant increase in efficiency and productivity as employees are freed from repetitive tasks, who can devote their faculties to more creative tasks and significantly contribute to company goals.
- It also offers more agility when emphasizing time reduction in any configurable process.
Automation in Task-based workflow
Automation allows workflow solutions to directly integrate with different administrative software, resulting in automatic and hassle-free data transfer between different operational and administrative systems of the company.
Also with automation, workflow solutions can be easily integrated with the most common ERPs, whether SAP, Netsuite, Microsoft, Dynamics, etc. Moreover, it also allows integration with MIS tools and facilitates the generation of reports and dashboards which allow you full control over each individual task and process.
