Document processes are a dominant feature of daily workflows in many industries and offices. From insurance and finance to retail, transportation and logistics, documents play a key role in many business processes. However, handling these documents isn’t always easy—and it often involves repetitive manual work that creates opportunities for errors. Incorrect information can delay payments, cause financial losses or lead to poor customer outcomes. With an advanced workflow automation platform such as Tungsten TotalAgility, streamlining these everyday tasks is within easier reach.

For many, though, an automation project is a daunting proposal. It requires time, an investment and the right plan to see it through. Complicating matters is the assumption that you will need to engage expert developers to tailor processes that meet your needs. What if you could empower those who work directly with those processes to make the change themselves? With the low-code and no-code automation environment in TotalAgility, that’s precisely what you can do.

Take a moment to consider why coding is often a barrier to automation and explore how you can adopt a different approach for your business with more automated document processes.

Traditional Barriers to Effective Automation Projects

The belief that it requires a high degree of technical expertise has often been a stumbling block for organizations trying to enter the future. There is the belief that only an expensive and lengthy engagement with a third-party development firm can lead to results. Similarly, organizations may believe the only way to control such a project is to expand payroll and hire for internal roles.

All these efforts diminish the potential ROI on automation while creating a potentially long road toward actual results. Tungsten solutions aim to provide a more flexible foundation for empowering citizen developers or everyday users to design processes that align with their needs.

Why Low-Code Environments Are a Revolutionary Tool

In the past, code-heavy applications were the norm. However, hiring those proficient in specific scripting languages is expensive and time-consuming. With a low-code environment, training can take place within the organization. There is less need to turn to outside resources for help when you can empower those in the company to take control themselves.

Low-code document processing tools like Tungsten TotalAgility incorporate advanced capabilities alongside artificial intelligence and machine learning. Some solutions even allow querying a generative AI tool to expand the automated process. Combined with environments such as a drag-and-drop process designer, this puts incredible capabilities at the fingertips of many more people in your business.

Effective automation is no longer the sole domain of the computer science grad or the veteran developer. Instead, the power can be in those doing the work daily. When done right, that can lead to some significant benefits.

The Benefits of Empowering Users to Automate Their Workflows

With a low-code/no-code approach to designing automated processes, it’s possible to tap into the experience of those closest to the process. Individuals handling specific document workflows often know the pain points and best practices exceedingly well. Those at a higher level may not have the same clarity of purpose when developing automation. You have the highest advantage from the outset: achieve speed using the organizational knowledge you already have at your disposal.

Enabling non-technical users to reimagine their own workflows also means you can realize value sooner. Efficiency improvements begin at lower levels. Faster work at higher quality during these stages translates into better results downstream.

Bottlenecks can be broken down, allowing high-quality document data to reach destinations on time. This process is excellent for many areas of business, but especially in customer-facing tasks and finance processes. Citizen developers can even begin training AI on small data sets to teach models how to parse, extract, and analyze documents that are standard to their work.

Equip Your Teams With New Capabilities Using Tungsten Products

How can you unlock the benefits for your organization and users? The Tungsten Marketplace has the answer—you can find many ready-to-use solutions to enhance your document process automation here. However, you can also find educational resources and guides that provide all the tools necessary to bring citizen developers on board and begin the transition. Consider one such resource, the free Tungsten Transformation Best Practices Guide.

Created by the independent Tungsten Labs, this Best Practices Guide is one of the most popular resources in the Marketplace. It’s easy to see why, too: this guide provides everything a team needs to start achieving success with workflow automation from the first day. With insights into TotalAgility, Transformation, RPA, and more, it’s an excellent starting place and the ideal handy reference for the future.

This guide establishes what you can expect from automation tools and how to set metrics that reliably demonstrate whether you’re making improvements. It also provides insights on how to train citizen developers and how to provide guidelines for their use. Additionally, a wide range of specific subjects related to your workflow transformation offer more detail for learning and growth.

Using this guide, it is simple to quickly create and begin deploying solutions that can give your organization the edge it needs.

Explore the Future of Automation in Your Organization

In the past, early automation technologies required more extensive development and consulting work. Large-scale projects still need expert guidance, but low-code and no-code automation offers the best solution for document processing applications. Teams can adapt processes to suit their needs and daily challenges. Engaging citizen developers in a no-code environment produces decent solutions and boosts morale to improve efficiency.

With Tungsten TotalAgility and solutions from the Marketplace to guide your teams, you can set up an efficient no-code approach to document automation today. Leave frustrating errors and bottle-necked processes behind. Embrace the work of tomorrow with workflow automation that adapts to your specific needs with greater ease. Discover what’s possible now.