Why Highly Skilled IT Teams Embrace Low-Code Automation
When assessing automation tools, flexibility is crucial for any IT team. A code-driven automation solution doesn’t force you to conform to its rules, it allows you to build and define jobs with your own code—the way you want it. Environments with complex logic or complicated use cases are no match for a highly skilled developer and a flexible workload automation solution.
A great automation tool should also make your team itself more flexible. A WLA solution with low-code features doesn’t just save time on projects but also saves brain power. Letting your team flex their problem-solving skills on more critical work.
What is Low-Code Automation?
Low-code automation is a way to describe any feature or capability that reduces the amount of code required to build automation. Low-code (and even no-code) options don’t replace your skill set but complement them, allowing you to work more efficiently. These features include:
- Native Integrations
Native integrations simplify the communication between your WLA solution and common business applications—like CRMs, ERP, BI tools, and even Microsoft products. - Drag-and Drop Task Builders
GUIs that visually drag-and-drop jobs and pieces of automation together to build workflows. - API Integrations
API integrations provide a comprehensive set of endpoints for accessing the core features of your WLA tool with other API-ready applications. - Pre-Built Connectors
A digital marketplace with pre-built connectors available for download that speed the development process of automated workflows. - Screen Recorders
Capture user actions on a website or desktop application for robust screen recordings that are converted into automated actions.
What Are the Benefits of Low-Code Automation?
By taking the manual, repetitive tasks of the plates of developers, a WLA solution with low-code capabilities boosts productivity, optimizes resources, and improves accuracy. Here’s how:
- Boost Productivity
Streamline and simplify the repetitive parts of building automation to spend more time on the complex coding issues that require more brain power. Plus, low-code automation helps developers deliver faster results to stakeholders to move on to critical projects more quickly. - Optimize Resources
Low-code features take down the barriers to automation for less-technical users, allowing business users to build their own automation without using developer resources. All while the IT team maintains visibility and control of the automation environment, reducing shadow IT. - Improve Accuracy
The less manual work involved in building automation, the less prone to errors your workflows are. And with one, central repository for code, you can update workflows as fast as your applications and processes change.
What is a Workload Automation Solution with Low-Code Capabilities?
Fortra’s JAMS combines the code-driven power of WLA with the low-code features of robotic process automation (RPA). Through an integration with Fortra’s Automate, JAMS users can take advantage of a drag-and-drop workflow designer and screen recorder that streamlines repetitive, rule-based manual tasks. Allowing technical users to build automation faster, cutting down on the manual work holding back rapid development. All with the flexibility to use custom coding and scripts to schedule your jobs the way you want them scheduled.