Market Trends of Workflow Automation Industry
Software Segment is Expected to Register Significant Growth
- The adoption of IoT is surging among industries owing to the emergence of applications and business models and reduced device costs. With surging IoT connective, the tools used to automate workflows, including workflow automation software, workflow management software, workflow systems, or business process automation (BPA) are observing significant demand. The workflow automation software has various advantages, including value-adding features, and provides integration capabilities to increase the range of automation one can implement. Such adoption will bring more demand for the software segment across the workflow automation market.
- Some features include the capability of reducing the amount of IT support required to implement and maintain the software. Business users can conveniently access some features through an intuitive visual interface, making the automation faster and putting business teams in a co-creative role for optimizing workflows. Low code also relieves pressure on the IT backlog. For instance, Integrify is a low-code workflow automation platform that offers an easy-to-use builder, flexible customization, multiple pricing options, and dedicated customer support.
- Moreover, capturing and consolidating incoming data can be challenging for any team, and workflow automation software facilitates a solution with features such as customizable forms to simplify request management by standardizing processes, avoiding errors, and eliminating duplicate data entry. Portals make organizing and securely sharing forms with internal or external partners easy. Other features that play a crucial role in the workflow automation includes integrations, presence of templates and rules as well as conditional logic.
- For instance, In October 2023, Retool Inc., a low-code development platform for business software, announced the general availability of Retool Workflows. This highly innovative automation tool has been designed with the aim of greatly assisting developers by enabling them to prioritize coding and then seamlessly automate tasks alongside monitoring and maintenance tools. With Retool Workflows, developers are offered a user-friendly and visually appealing interface that provides an extensive array of coding tools, allowing for efficient prototyping and construction of periodic jobs, customized alerts, and information management tasks. Furthermore, this tool facilitates data extraction, transformation, and loading based on triggers.
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Asia-Pacific Expected to Register the Fastest Growth During the Forecast Period
- With the increasing competition in the Chinese market, various industries in the country have been improving workflow through digital transformation. For instance, Dongfeng Nissan initiated its digital transformation program to improve efficiency and speed up the process of marketing a line of new vehicles. The company launched its digital transformation strategy for promoting the better use of data aimed to improve existing workflows, streamline internal business operations, and promote overall efficiency. As part of the program, the company implemented robotic process automation (RPA) software, UiPath, to automate repetitive digital tasks.
- China Unicom's Intelligent Network Innovation Center worked with Huawei in 2021 to develop and deploy an AI-powered network management and operations platform based on Huawei's AUTIN system. The company deployed an AI-based network management and operations platform to use data to simplify and automate national network operation, planning, and management while improving cost-effectiveness, customer experience, and sustainability as it rolled out 5G networks and services.
- Automation is one of the most crucial parts related to the future of work approach, and Japan is innovating through AI. According to the Nomura Research Institute, the AI sector in the country will see a massive stride by 2035. Automation companies such as Abeja, NEC, and others innovate to bring more production efficiency to push Japan's GDP.
- Automation has been playing a major role in India's economic development. The country is currently witnessing a transition in most sectors through the implementation of technology and innovation. The National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence (NSAI) highlighted that AI is predicted to accelerate India's annual growth rate by 1.3% by 2035.
- Southeast Asia and Australia are prominent regions in the Rest of Asia-Pacific. Southeast Asian companies are preparing employees for an AI-centered future and embracing new technologies. This would require enterprises to plug the skills gap through a proper upskilling strategy. Digitization would help the region to create globally competitive partnerships for local companies as well as improve the potential for global expansion and support a successful technology and knowledge transfer.
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