(Last Updated On: April 26, 2022)

It is the use of technology to automate reproducible daily tasks. Therefore, business process automation helps organizations modernize processes, for instance, employee onboarding, accounts payable, contract management, and more.
Main key factors to identify a process for automation:

  • This requires consistency across the organization
  • The process is repeatable
  • It needs to be free from error, every time

The technology is used to automate repeatable daily tasks.

It’s not just about replacing paper with PDFs – business process automation is about making processes more cost-effective, streamlined, error-free, and transparent.


There are three Varieties business processes.

HR Onboarding

Example; Process challenge: Indeed the university embarked on an initiative that would increase enrolment by 65% in 2025. Meanwhile, if the university wanted to achieve its goal, it needed to eliminate inefficiencies and accelerate employee onboarding.

Automating HR integration with Laserfiche helped the College of Engineering hire over 3,400 employees. In the same way, the new system has created a new culture of partnership and innovation.

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Business Process Automation

Automating HR integration with Laserfiche helped the College of Engineering hire over 3,400 employees. In the same way, the new system has created a new culture of partnership and innovation.

Accounts Payable

Process Challenge: The City of Boca Raton’s accounts payable process relied heavily on paper invoices. They are dispelled manually. However, finding documents and answering phone calls from vendors will take up employees’ time.

Thanks to its automation, the city tracks all invoices from receipt to final payment.

Contract Management

Process challenge: Heifer International aims to lift 4 million families out of poverty by 2020.

The association needed to become more efficient and facilitate to do this. Similarly collaboration between its teams and partners around the world. Of course, the documents accumulated from 70 years of work and hundreds of contracts require review per project.

Furthermore, with this, we can get an overview of how process automation will benefit.