Like an Athlete on Steroids, the Intelligent Automation Community Is Inflating Their Statistics
Image Above Copyright: Mike Lane A sales executive at an automation software firm was recently bragging to me that his company’s platform automated more than 600 processes in a call center at a large telecommunications provider. After spitting out my [...]
SAP Customers: Don’t Stay on the Sidelines Waiting to Enter the Automation Game
I’ve heard dozens of Fortune 500 executives over the last 12 months extol the virtues of process automation, only to then admit that their organizations have not actually started down the automation path. The benefits are obvious: massive productivity gains [...]
Bridging the Process Mining Gap in RPA Projects
Modern ERP platforms provide an indispensable backbone of complex functions and processes that represent a significant technology investment. Understanding all the details of a business process is ultimately one of the keys to any successful RPA project, especially when it [...]
The Impact of a Strategic Approach to Integrated Automation on Merger & Acquisition Risk
The State of M&A in 2019 Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) remain one of the key methods that companies are responding to opportunities for direct inorganic growth as a result of changing business models, disruptive technologies, and shifting global markets. Improved [...]
Why RPA Isn’t Scaling (Yet)
Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) is hot right now, there’s no doubt about that. McKinsey estimates that 85% of a typical firm’s 900+ processes can be automated. Suddenly every consulting firm on the planet has an RPA practice. And Gartner, Forrester, [...]
Clear Software and Automation Anywhere Announce Strategic Partnership
Clear Software, a leading provider of attended Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) software, announced a technology alliance partnership with Automation Anywhere, recognized as the leader in Intelligent Process Automation, to fully integrate their respective solutions and collaborate on global sales and [...]
Punchout Lowers Procurement Costs And Improves Working Capital Performance
Accurate measurement of days sales outstanding (DSO) and days payable outstanding (DPO) are critical for assessing overall corporate financial health, since total working capital performance can only be determined when DSO and DPO are used in conjunction with days inventory [...]
Why Finance Executives Should Care About Attended RPA and Order Entry Optimization
Ask any finance executive about one of the things they obsess over, and it is invariably Days Sales Outstanding (DSO). The magic number of how many days it takes for a company to convert its accounts receivables into cash varies [...]
Procure to Pay, The Last Guy Picked in Dodgeball
For those of you old enough to remember grade school dodgeball, you might recall the very uncomfortable process of selecting teams. There had to be someone who was picked last. I felt sorry for the poor classmate who was left [...]
Coding for Clarity: The Hidden Costs of Code
There are thousands of ways to code a solution to meet any business requirement. From a business perspective, as long as the code performs the required function it works. Code is a living construct in that it is likely it [...]
Building the Business Case for Robotic Process Automation: The Promise and Peril
Table of Contents Should we consider Attended versus Unattended RPA? What processes actually stand to gain the most from RPA, and where should RPA be focused? Is my business process a good candidate for RPA? [...]
Effective Business Process Automation: The Hybrid RPA Approach
Intelligent Process Automation (RPA) was developed to both assist and replace work accomplished by human beings. Processes are standardized, centralized, and optimized with the deployment of software bots which can accomplish tasks with flawless precision and effortless scalability. Talent within organizations [...]
RPA Ebook: A Better Way to Robotic Process Automation
The leadership within the Clear Software organization have decades of combined history in the ERP industry. Jon Gilman, our CEO, founded Clear Software because he grew weary of seeing companies spending hundreds of millions of dollars on IT projects that [...]
Business Process Automation for Order to Cash
The downstream impact of inaccurate or delayed Order-to-Cash processes are enormous to an organization: Customers are frustrated, impacting satisfaction, retention, and the ability of a company to increase overall revenues. In a digital world, where customers share their frustrations, you [...]
Feeling Ripped Off By Your ERP? You’re Not Alone
Summary: ERP software was supposed to increase operational efficiency at large organizations, but in most cases the opposite has happened. You can get more out of your technology investments without throwing them away, but you need to change your perspective [...]
Press Release: Clear Software Welcomes Orr Fellow Eileen Miller
ZIONSVILLE, IN -- February 6, 2018 -- Clear Software, the market leader in the simplification of business software, welcomes new Orr Fellow Eileen Miller of Lake Forest, Illinois. A December 2017 graduate of Purdue University with a degree in Brain [...]
Email Integration into SAP, Salesforce, et al
It's undeniable that business software like SAP, Salesforce, and Oracle E-Business Suite are extremely powerful. They literally run core processes at most of the Fortune 500 - from sales to purchasing to manufacturing to finance. However, email integration is one [...]
One Year at Clear – Conclusions and Looking Ahead
In the conclusion of the One Year at Clear series, Kaitlin and Shelby finish their reflections and look forward to another year of learning and growth both for themselves and for Clear! Shelby: When I think back to where I [...]