As your organization grows, your business processes need to grow with it. Otherwise, 20 minutes of wasted time per day can add up to hundreds of hours of wasted time among your employees. Did you know that businesses lose an average of $1.7 million a year for every 100 employees from time waste?

Fortunately, there are some tools you can use to make ordinary processes more efficient and effective. Let’s discuss some of the most common business processes and see how much automated processes can save you!

Workflow Design

Designing web-based workflow processes are expensive when you hire a professional web designer or software developer. Freelancers can charge over $100 an hour, and an in-house developer could cost 6-figures each year.

Conversely, automated workflow design can simplify a lot of necessary tasks for you, including:

• Building and using your own custom steps and data types
• Embed the designer into any web-based application
• User-friendly, drag-and-drop configurations
• Fully-graphical web-based designer
• Archiving your workflow definitions as XML

In practice, this means developing common and new custom workflow steps to help improve day-to-day business practices for you and your employees.

Analytics

Data analytics are a critical component in any business, as we need this information to make necessary improvements. However, manual analytics is quite expensive, as the average salary for a data analyst is over $63,000 per year. 

Most small businesses can’t afford an in-house data analyst, but they can use automated business analytics at a much lower rate. Some analytics tools are quite user-friendly, insightful, and offer detailed reports straight to your inbox.

Data Protection

Few small businesses can afford to outsource their cybersecurity needs, let alone hire an in-house IT department. Salaries in the field range from $60,000 to six figures. However, the need for cybersecurity and disaster recovery is high in the small business world, as small businesses are the most likely targets of an attack. Fortunately, there are automated services available for protecting your data. With the right platforms, this will include:

• Data backup
• Disaster recovery
• Secure file sharing
• Secure cloud storage

You can get all of this for one flat, monthly fee, instead of paying salary and benefits for an IT team, paying to train your staff, and implementing an expensive disaster recovery plan.

Forms Design

Businesses of all industries and sizes rely on forms to some degree, but the extent varies between businesses. Designing a new form manually could take anywhere from 1 hour to a few hours. If you need to design several of these forms every month, this could add up to a week’s worth of pay for your skilled employees.

Instead, you can use a simple drag-and-drop form designer with UI controls. This will create appealing and user-friendly forms compatible with digital signatures on any device.

Uniform Distribution

Finally, you can spend all of the time ensuring that your data stay uniform throughout multiple platforms and accounts manually. However, this will eat up a lot of time, as will working without this level of uniformity. Instead, you can have custom, system-wide logging data for:

• Connect to existing directory services like Active directory, LDAP
• User synchronization
• Forms Authentication
• Single sign-on
• Role-based security

All of this will ensure that information is synchronized for all applicable users across your system, avoiding delays or issues over time. This is one instance that requires automation for the best results.

Moreover, this will help you integrate your data across multiple platforms, including Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter, Google Cloud, and so many more. The best part is that, with FlowWright’s features, you can even synchronize and distribute your data across all of the features mentioned above!

Use a One-Stop Automation Tool

Did you know that you can automate all of your business practices for one small fee? FlowWright’s platform is the easiest way to bundle and save on all of your business processes, including resource management, monitoring reports, analytics, and so much more. When you add up the costs of all of these manual processes, the savings can add up to millions each year for a medium-sized business!

Keep reading our blog for our latest tips for your business operations, and check out our pricing to see how much you could save on these processes!