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5 Best Areas for Automation in Finance

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Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has been driving greater efficiency, accuracy, and compliance in finance departments for several years. Automation reduces the number of manual controls, reporting errors, and operational costs of the finance and accounting function.

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Top 5 Automation Use Cases for the Front Office

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The front office operates autonomously but relies on the back office for support in the form of secretarial, accounting, human resources, and internet technology functions. Why front-office automation? Speed and accuracy are vital for all these and other operations to service customers, but many of them are still handled manually.

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Hackett Research: Inflation, Geopolitical Unrest, Other Factors Drive Up Operational Costs of Finance for the First Time in Decades

The Hackett Group

Miami, FL — July 13, 2023 — For the first time in decades, most finance organizations experienced a significant increase in operating costs in 2023, driven by inflationary pressures, geopolitical unrest and other uncertainty factors, according to new research from The Hackett Group , Inc. NASDAQ: HCKT).

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IBM named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Digital Process Automation Software, Q4 2023

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Forrester Research just released “The Forrester Wave™: Digital Process Automation Software, Q4 2023: The 15 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up” by Craig Le Clair with Glenn O’Donnell, Renee Taylor-Huot, Lok Sze Sung, Audrey Lynch, and Kara Hartig and IBM is proud to be recognized as a Leader.

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Hackett: Procurement Operating Costs Increase For the First Time in a Decade

The Hackett Group

Despite increases in year-on-year operating costs, Digital World Class procurement organizations excel at cost optimization compared to typical organizations, The Hackett Group ® found. They now operate at 21% lower cost than their peers and have 32% fewer staff. Digital World Class Procurement Orgs Drive 2.4X

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Identifying Automation Opportunities for Retail Banking

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Operations supporting each of these product lines such as loan fulfillment, underwriting, compliance, customer service, and collections could significantly benefit from automation since many of these processes are manual and document-intensive. These are the highest priority processes to automate. Ignore them.

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How Your Procurement Can Benefit from Automation

Automation Anywhere

Procurement has rapidly become a high-impact area for automation. They want procurement to help drive business outcomes, for greater efficiency, resiliency, and cost savings. And automation can be the catalyst to make that transformation possible. These are two key areas for intelligent automation.