SharePoint and Business Process Automation

One of the best and least painful ways to reduce operating costs is to automate as many routine processes as you possibly can. When your people are not stuck doing low-level, unchallenging, repetitive tasks they are available for higher-level, more productive work - improving morale and your bottom line.

Gig Werks helps clients find more processes that can be automated and then puts the power of SharePoint to work streamlining, optimizing, and automating those key processes by substituting manual labor with powerful automation tools, including:

• Defined Business Rules that govern all automated activities
• Capture and organize key business intelligence (BI) to achieve deeper insight and greater visibility into how your company works – or doesn’t – so you can become more efficient
• Application Integration to put data from one application to work in the next application until the entire job is done
• The process of developing automation and workflows gives companies a way to analyze and improve how they do things
• Use built-in collaborative workflow templates to streamline approval, review, and archiving processes
• Use workflow automation and alerts to seamlessly link automated tasks to tasks which still must be performed by people.
• Streamline your business process applications through InfoPath forms, which collect and validate the data driving your workflows, assuring greater accuracy and relevance from your data entry processes.
• Deliver your forms with a consistent user experience regardless of where they are used
• Initiate a workflow or set a workflow status right from your familiar Microsoft Office application such as Microsoft Office Word 2007
• Compliance including digital signatures

The process of developing business process automation gives companies new visibility and new insight into how they’re actually doing things and how effective they’re being. Costs tumble and profits increase as people can perform more productive procedures with their former routine tasks handled by the new automation. Additional benefits include better visibility into process workflow, knowledge retention, improved regulatory compliance, and more availability of skilled people to do higher-value work.