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Hyperautomation is key to business-IT engagement

Chris Saunderson by Chris Saunderson
April 18, 2023
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Hyperautomation is a topic that I get the occasional question about as I talk to people. The question really breaks down into two types:

First: “Hyperautomation, that’s that RPA stuff, right?”

Second: “I don’t see how business process automation and hyperautomation apply to the I&O space”.

What is (and isn’t) Hyperautomation?

If you’re going to ask me who the leading vendors of hyperautomation solutions are, I’m afraid you’re going to have to put up with me explaining this:

Hyperautomation is an approach, a framework, not a product.  It represents the maturation of the contribution that automation can make to your business by increasing the scope and the business impact of automation. While individual tasks can be automated, processes, cross-domain orchestration, and ultimately, the business model invention (and re-invention) are what hyperautomation delivers.

What hyperautomation isn’t is a tool or even a set of tools. Tools are enablers, but the overarching message is that your hyperautomation isn’t about tools, it’s about value.

Ok, I think I get that, but aren’t there products that deliver this?

Sure, there are lots of vendors that contribute to the delivery of hyperautomation value. RPA, process mining, intelligent document processing, service orchestration, and analytics and decision support tools. But because it’s a framework and one that is very responsive to the needs of your organisation, there are very few vendors offering a product to do this holistically.  

The key is in the organisational needs: what is important today and can be delivered by the technology stack you have implemented may not be suitable for tomorrow. that’s where the vendor offerings are likely to fall short – they can’t deliver the business change necessary to take full advantage of the investments.

What about the I&O Leader?

There are two things that I&O leaders and their organisations should be thinking about when it comes to hyperautomation.

How do we contribute to the overall success of the initiative?

How do we take advantage of the capabilities for the I&O tasks that we are responsible for?

The first of these is being willing to collaborate on exposing more services and workflows that have been traditionally the realm of the I&O organisation to tools and processes outside of I&O.

As an example: being able to expose workload automation or service orchestration workflows to broader business processes. As an example, can I use a RPA bot to interact with a legacy system that is at the core of a business activity? Does this remove the need for either integration or human ticket handling?

The second is very much the opportunity I&O leaders have in front of them to take the success that the organisation is demonstrating and turn that into I&O service improvement. That same RPA bot that is used to interact with one system can be expanded to support multiple, once there is enough success and trust built.

Can we take the same idea and apply it to the service desk? For both internal and external users? If that comes to fruition, what do I do with the resources that I free up?  Does my service quality go up?  Does the cost of delivering services go down? Am I seen as a partner and collaborator, rather than a service delivery organisation?

Wrapping up

Hyperautomation is the next opportunity for I&O to both make big changes in how they participate in the broader business activities of their organisation, and to make changes in the way the I&O organisation works.

First published on Gartner Blog Network

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Chris Saunderson

Chris Saunderson

Chris Saunderson, senior director analyst at Gartner, covers automation and orchestration methodologies at Gartner, with a primary focus on the life cycle of systems from build to run to retire. Saunderson has 10 years of experience as an automation architect, architecting task and process automation solutions to address IT needs. His coverage includes the impact of automation and orchestration on the IT operations organization. He has an emphasis on improving the programmability of infrastructure elements, and the improvement of system availability and maintainability. Previous experience Prior to joining Gartner, Saunderson worked for more than 25 years as a systems administrator, systems engineer, researcher, internal product manager, and as a program manager and lead architect for automation and orchestration initiatives. He scoped and delivered IT automation and orchestration initiative primarily around IT systems management: OS patching, OS provisioning, regulatory and internal policy audit and compliance, integration to other systems (IDM/Service Desk/Asset Management). He provided governance/architecture for orchestration enablement for workflow creation/acceptance for cross-domain orchestration cases: Closed Loop Incident Processing/Continuous Desired Configuration Management/Change Management Integration. Professional background Sprint Technology Architect IV SingTel Optus Senior Network Engineer Maptek System Administrator

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