Support automation builders with reusable building blocks such as pre-packaged recipes, connectors, and other customizable assets to develop rapid and reliable solutions.

Overview

One of the key elements of growing your automation practice is to support the rapid development of solutions to enable business agility, avoid redundancy, and lower operational costs. However, while speed and flexibility are essential, they often come at an expense of quality. In addition to ensuring a quick turnaround time of new solutions, you will also need to ensure that automations are reliable to support business-critical processes.

Most business users are proficient with the business process knowledge in their domain. And with a low code/no code platform like Workato, they are able to rapidly build automations. But, building production-grade solutions remains one of the challenges in automation adoption by non-technical users. Often, production-grade automations will need to address a number of different requirements besides the core business needs of the solution.

These requirements could be handling business exceptions such as missing invoice numbers, technical errors like network connectivity issues with business applications, audit logging to a database, automated reprocessing of failed transactions, workflow monitoring and notification logic, or performance tuning, to name a few.

You can make the process of building automation easier for everyone by taking such requirements out of their concern through the use of Accelerators and Reusable Assets.

Accelerators and reusable assets are purpose-built solutions that can be used as building blocks. The Automation HQ team can work on creating well-tested reusable assets such as logging and error handling recipes. By using those reusable recipe templates, non-technical users can jump-start their projects without having to solve common problems. Such building blocks allow business teams to solve business problems while the Automation HQ team can support reliable operations.

You can choose from a pool of several such accelerators pre-built by Workato and quickly customize them for your organization's needs. Over the years, Workato has worked with thousands of customers across many industries and we have come across a variety of automation use cases. However, we also noticed that many customers have similar workflows and some recipes have functionality with high reusability. We created Accelerators as collections of Workato assets designed to work together to solve these common automation use cases across industries. With these pre-packaged resources, you can reduce the time and money required for research and development, and focus more on solving business problems.

Here are a few examples, learn more about different Workato Accelerators here.

• The Autonomous Operations Framework Accelerator provides an automated system for identifying and remediating errors.
• The Enterprise Data Hub Accelerator provides a lightweight master data management solution for Customer 360, Employee Master Data, and more.
• The Campaign Launch Accelerator gives marketing operations teams control over campaign creation.

The reusable assets include business services that have enterprise-wide strategic value and applicability. Such automations should be identified and built as part of individual projects or as a separate initiative. Here are some examples of such reusable assets:

• Reusable and parameterized function that readily provides CSV export of requested customer segment data for use in different reporting automations.
• Custom SDK connector for custom enterprise application APIs to provide an accessible and uniform integration approach to non-technical users building recipes.

The Automation HQ team should maintain a central catalog of such high-impact automations easily discoverable by others in an organization. Organizations can use Workato's API and asset library for automation builders to have a streamlined approach to discovering and securely accessing reusable business assets for use in their projects.
 

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