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A new architecture for automationbpmNEXT, April 18th 2018

Neil Ward-Dutton – Founder, Research Director

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What I’ll cover

§ The intelligent automation agenda§ Emerging patterns for business automation§ A fast-changing market§ Your next moves

The Intelligent Automation agenda

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So many buttons… which one to push…?

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The shift from tech resource scarcity to abundance

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A cloud-first world, particularly in developed countries

Companies used 16 SaaS apps on average in 2017, up 33% from 2016. 73% of organisations said nearly all (80%+) of their apps will be SaaS by 2020.

- 2017 survey of 1800+ IT professionals

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Competitor abundance: financial services… and beyond

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Digital disruption across industriesLogistics & Distribution Retail

Insurance

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The price of regulatory compliance failure continues to increase

Infringements of the [GDPR] provisions shall […] be subject to administrative fines up to 20 000 000 EUR, or in the case of an undertaking, up to 4 % of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher.

- EU General Data Protection Regulation, Art. 83

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Technologies that CIOs see impacting their strategies

Blockchain

Serverless / microservices

application architecture

VR/AR

Machine learning / AI

IoT

DevOps

Social collaboration

Private cloud

Big data / advanced analytics

Mobile applications

Business process automation

Public cloud

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Core to strategy

Automation patterns

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A schematic for work

Task Task

Flow & assignment

ContextGoal

R E S O U R C E S

Inputs

TriggersDecision

Outputs

The work that gets done – three common approaches –How many of the work features are prescribed?

“Exploratory”

“Transactional”

“Programmatic”

GoalSome tasksSome assignments

GoalTask flowAssignment rulesSome tasks

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The work that gets done – Exploratory Work+

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Task Task

Flow & assignment

ContextGoal

R E S O U R C E S

Inputs

Triggers

Decision

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“Exploratory”

“Transactional”

“Programmatic”

GoalSome tasksSome assignments

GoalTask flowAssignment rulesSome tasks

Everything

The work that gets done – Transactional Work+

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Task Task

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ContextGoal

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Inputs

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Decision

Outputs

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“Exploratory”

“Transactional”

“Programmatic”

GoalSome tasksSome assignments

GoalTask flowAssignment rulesSome tasks

Everything

The work that gets done – Programmatic Work+

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Flow & assignment

ContextGoal

R E S O U R C E S

Inputs

TriggersTask Task

Decision

Outputs

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“Exploratory”

“Transactional”

“Programmatic”

GoalSome tasksSome assignments

GoalTask flowAssignment rulesSome tasks

Everything

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Exploratory Work Automation : Case Management +

Identify Best Next Action with predictive ML models, where work frequency/scale is high and goal satisfaction is a problem

Triage work based on unstructured inputs with AI services, where frequency/scale is high

Externalise decisions with decision management, where frequency/scale is high and transparency and/or agility are key

Task

Flow & assignment

Guidance

R E S O U R C E S

Inputs

TriggersTask

Goal

DecisionIdentify relevant guidance/resources with predictive ML models, where work frequency/scale is high and employee turnover/training is an issue

Streamline interactions with systems of record with attended RPA, where work frequency/scale is high and relevant systems landscape is fragmented

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Transactional Work Automation: Workflow +

Flow & assignment

GuidanceGoal

R E S O U R C E S

Inputs

TriggersTask Task

Decision

Streamline interactions with systems of record with attended RPA, where work frequency/scale is high and relevant systems landscape is fragmented

Triage work based on unstructured inputs with AI services, where frequency/scale is high

Externalise decisions with decision management, where frequency/scale is high and transparency and/or agility are key

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Programmatic Work Automation

Flow & assignment

GuidanceGoal

R E S O U R C E S

Inputs

TriggersTask Task

Decision

Automate and orchestrate system interactions with unattended RPA, where work frequency/scale is high and relevant systems landscape is fragmented

Automate and orchestrate system interactions with integration platforms, where work frequency/scale is high and relevant systems are amenable to API-based interaction

Externalise decisions with decision management, where frequency/scale is high and transparency and/or agility are key

Externalise task logic with external business logic services, where frequency/scale is high and transparency and/or agility are key

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Compartmentalising value delivery (and where new tech plays)

Exploratory

Transactional T T

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AI servicesPredictive ML modelsDecision ManagementAttended RPA

AI servicesDecision ManagementAttended RPA

Decision ManagementExternal servicesUnattended RPAIntegration Platform

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Automation strategy

Exploratory

Transactional T T

P P P P P P

AI servicesPredictive ML modelsDecision ManagementAttended RPA

AI servicesDecision ManagementAttended RPA

Decision ManagementExternal servicesUnattended RPAIntegration Platform

Exploratory

Prescribe, automate as much as possible

Use Case Mgt. for exceptions, governance

Augment where viable

Your next moves

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The automation technology market is changing fastW

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Core / head Supporting / long tail

HIPsAPI Mgt

UnattendedRPA

Workflow

Case Mgt

Packagedapps

Low-code / hpaPaaS

AI servicesPredictive ML toolkits

Decision Mgt

Automation Anywhere Bot Store

Numerous partnerships

Salesforce / MuleSoft

Salesforce Einstein

UiPath, WorkFusion, Blue Prism,

etc

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Time to rearchitect your products, if you haven’t already

What§ Shift away from hard-

edged one-size-fits-all product deployments

§ Shift towards collections of independent, self-sufficient runtime services

Why§ Competitive cloud

service delivery§ Flexibility in

product/offering portfolio

§ Unpredictable demand for application/ process automation capabilities

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Look to insight and governance as control pointsIntegrated view of performance

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Exploratory

Transactional T T

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Neil Ward-Dutton, Founder and Research Director@neilwdneilwd@mwdadvisors.com

What’s your strategy?