Pre-General Availability: 2024-09-02
5 Reasons to Unify Your Automation
With Oracle Integration, your organization can automate efficiently and effectively by producing UI-based automation and API-based automation in one complete automation platform.
If your organization already has a team or department that delivers robotic process automation (RPA), that's great! The RPA capabilities in Oracle Integration can still help your business. Keep reading to learn more.
1. Bridge the Gaps Between Your Automation Strategies
Many organizations divide their automation work and strategies. For example:
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IT teams perform API-based automation by designing integrations.
They can't automate legacy applications that don't have APIs because their tools don't allow them to develop UI-based automation.
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Business teams perform UI-based automation by building robots.
They can't develop more complex automation because their tools don't allow them to develop API-based automation.
Both teams have the same goals: automating their business processes. However, their separate tools lead to automation gaps, including imperfect and abandoned automation efforts.
With Oracle Integration, organizations can unify their automation work and their automation strategies. IT and business teams can collaborate on this automation work. Individuals with more technical skill sets can work with APIs and more complex integrations, and people with strong business acumen can work with robots.
When you can perform UI-based automation and API-based automation in one place, you can find the right solution for the problem that you're facing and eliminate your automation silos.
2. Ensure Good Corporate Governance
Teams typically delight in the opportunity to streamline tedious and time-consuming work through automation. However, unfettered access to automation tools can lead to challenges that impact your key business systems. For example, a large number of people working in an application at the same time can impact its performance, and the same is true for robots. Similarly, a large number of robots could infringe upon license agreements. Good governance is critical to such situations.
With Oracle Integration, you gain the efficiencies of automation along with the controls to guarantee good corporate governance. A central team can vet all new robots to ensure that they have a positive impact on your business operations. They can also design the integrations that call the robots and deploy the robots and integrations to production.
With this controlled process, everyone wins. Business teams can automate their business processes with only minimal involvement from IT, while a designated team maintains operational excellence by providing oversight.
3. Manage the Lifecycle of Assets in One Place
Oracle Integration offers a central place manage the lifecycle of your assets from development to deployment.
Whether you're developing a new robot or integration or updating an existing robot or integration, you work in one place. And when you're ready to promote your work from development to production, you don't need to go to multiple applications and find all the pieces and parts that you need and move them over individually. Instead, deploy your related robots and integrations together as a single automation solution.
Gain efficiency and reduce risk by managing the entire lifecycle of your automation assets in one place.
See Get Started with Projects in Using Integrations in Oracle Integration 3.
4. Unify Observability
When your organization works in several automation tools, your monitoring work can be inefficient and inconsistent. For example:
- There is no central place to monitor all automation.
- Teams must access separate dashboards and monitoring tools.
- Teams must create and follow different procedures for monitoring and responding to issues.
Oracle Integration addresses these issues by offering unified observability of all automation assets. Gain efficiencies by monitoring everything in one place with robust observability tools, including dashboards, proactive email notifications, and detailed troubleshooting pages.
See Workflow for Monitoring Integrations and Get Started with Observability in Using Integrations in Oracle Integration 3.
5. Build Flexible and Future-Proof Solutions
No matter how you're automating your business, you always start with an integration. For example, even when you need to do UI-based automation by building a robot, you must also design an integration that calls the robot.
This construct helps future proof your work. For example, consider a scenario in which your business requirements and automation strategy require a robot. You create an integration that calls the robot and then move on to your next automation work. Then, if your requirements change in the future and you need to replace the UI-based automation with API-based automation, you can make the update without impacting your business process. Simply version the integration and replace the robot with an API-based integration.
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To understand the value of robots, see About Robots.