Face The Workflow Automation Gap Head On

Organizations’ automation capabilities are critical to the success of their internal and external operations, including their ability to respond to business and market changes, improve the experience of their customers, and realize efficiencies. As expectations for high-quality, fast, and consistent digital services continue to accelerate, the application workflows on which these services depend cannot keep up without automation as well. However, IT leaders aren’t doing enough to connect workflow automation capabilities with automation results, creating unnecessary risk to both the business and operations.

BMC Software commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the state of workflow automation at large companies. To explore this topic, Forrester conducted a survey with 355 global IT leaders from operations, engineering, and DevOps roles involved in application workflow execution at their organizations. We found that IT leaders understand the power workflow automation can yield, but only a minority have been able to successfully scale workflows across the enterprise.