In the modern digital environment, cloud migration has become a pivotal strategy for businesses seeking growth, scalability and competitive advantage. Moving legacy systems to the cloud enhances agility and speed and offers better control over SLAs. Cloud-native solutions have transformed data storage and management, allowing businesses to simplify operations in a cloud environment.
Taking cloud strategies to the next level, hyperautomation integrates AI, machine learning and advanced automation tools to enable seamless, efficient migrations and peak operational performance. Foundational to hyperautomation is business process automation, which began with early technologies like optical character recognition (OCR). These early automation strategies paved the way for advanced integrated systems that enhance operational efficiency and drive digital transformation. This transformative approach enhances traditional automation, allowing businesses to migrate smoothly while achieving high efficiency across cloud-native systems.
The Role of Hyperautomation in Business Transformation
Hyperautomation is significantly transforming how organizations approach cloud migration and operational efficiency. Its key features include:
End-to-End Workflow Management
Managing end-to-end workflows across teams, systems and digital workers like chatbots, RPA bots and virtual assistants requires robust coordination. The hyperautomation platform streamlines this through real-time orchestration using plugins and connectors that interface with diverse automation tools and composable applications. This orchestration enables workload distribution across ERP solutions, cloud systems and integrators like SAP, Oracle, Big Data and RPA. By providing a universal orchestrator, businesses can efficiently connect processes across on-premises, cloud or hybrid environments, allowing flexibility in choosing the right cloud platform while enhancing workflow management.
Business Process Mapping and Workflow Coordination
The universal orchestrator facilitates comprehensive business process mapping by connecting processes seamlessly with data orchestration and cloud-based tasks. It enables the coordination of workflows across diverse systems—whether on-premises or in a distributed cloud, mainframe or central data hub. This adaptability allows businesses to choose the ideal cloud platform to meet their specific orchestration and connectivity needs, providing robust support for process integration and flexibility across multiple environments.
Customize Dashboards
Using this capability, HR and procurement teams can harness workload automation solutions to define, monitor and report on their SLA processes effectively. The self-service chatbot features allow businesses to customize their dashboards according to user profiles, empowering various business lines to manage orchestration tailored to their needs. Additionally, the enterprise service orchestration and automation platform can be used as a service to implement end-to-end workflows efficiently, ensuring that specific business operations are optimized and seamlessly executed.
As organizations begin their cloud migration journeys, they should leverage hyperautomation capabilities to ensure an effective transition.
Capabilities of Hyperautomation in Cloud Migration
Hyperautomation provides several key capabilities that help organizations streamline processes:
Integration Across Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Infrastructures
Hyperautomation simplifies the management of resources and automation of processes in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This implies that organizations can easily connect and coordinate their operations, no matter which cloud platforms they use. For instance, a global e-commerce company can use hybrid cloud automation to deploy its web applications across various public cloud providers. By creating a unified operational framework, hyperautomation enables businesses to leverage the unique strengths of different cloud solutions, ensuring that they maintain high performance and flexibility.
Support for Serverless Orchestration in Cloud Applications
Serverless orchestration eliminates the requirement for dedicated infrastructure, enabling applications to automatically modify their resource use in response to real-time demand. This capability ensures businesses can adapt quickly to workload fluctuations while avoiding unnecessary expense. Hyperautomation enhances this with intelligent workflows, which allow for seamless task management. Consequently, organizations can focus on providing value to their customers while increasing operational efficiency and swiftly responding to evolving business needs.
Facilitated Data Exchange Between Tasks
Organizations can enhance team and system collaboration by automating data transmission and integration, ensuring that relevant information is available when required. This data flow lowers process delays, resulting in faster decision-making and more efficient operations. Thus, businesses can respond quickly to changing circumstances while optimizing resource allocation. Hyperautomation eliminates the friction of manual data handling, resulting in a more cohesive operational environment.
Expanded Business Process Automation Reach for Diverse Business Scenarios
By facilitating tailored automation across multiple operations, such as finance, healthcare, retail and manufacturing, hyperautomation fosters innovation and agility.
- Financial Services: Automates data entry, fraud detection and risk assessment. For instance, it analyzes financial histories for credit scoring, enabling fast lending decisions and minimizing errors.
- Healthcare: Manages patient records, appointment scheduling and billing. It processes large volumes of patient data for quicker, more accurate diagnoses and streamlines patient interactions in telehealth applications.
- Retail and E-Commerce: Enhances the customer journey with personalized suggestions, manages inventory and automates order fulfillment. AI-powered chatbots give immediate assistance, enhancing the customer experience.
- Manufacturing: Transforms operations by automating supply chain management, quality control and predictive maintenance. Real-time data from IoT devices optimizes production, reduces downtime and prevents equipment failures.
Empowerment of Business Users with Self-Service Automation
Hyperautomation empowers business users to take control of their workflows by enabling them to automate routine tasks without relying on IT. Business users can now handle their requests independently with the help of conversational AI. These AI-powered virtual assistants engage users through preferred channels — email, voice, or chat — using AI voice bots for multi-turn interactions. Leveraging Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU), these assistants accurately interpret user intents, whether informational — like configuring a desk phone’s voicemail — or transactional, such as canceling accounts or managing software licenses. Through cognitive search and RPA, conversational AI resolves user requests in seconds without support from service desk agents. This empowers users to address routine needs independently, alleviating the burden on IT teams.
Unlock Smooth Transitions with HCL Universal Orchestrator
HCLSoftware has launched the HCL Universal Orchestrator, a hyperautomation enabler crafted to broaden the scope of your automation efforts across diverse scenarios. This cloud-native process orchestrator provides a low-code approach to workflow design, enhances visibility, facilitates seamless orchestration across hybrid systems and integrates powerful rule engines.
The HCL Universal Orchestrator incorporates intelligent business process management to elevate automation capabilities, providing several fundamental capabilities:
- Leverage cloud-native applications and RESTful APIs to scale automation initiatives seamlessly.
- Achieve optimal serverless orchestration of cloud-native applications, leading to significant resource savings.
- Accelerate the application DevOps cycle through policy-driven continuous planning.
- Enhance service lead times with a low-code/no-code workflow design approach and self-service automation, which boost employee productivity.
Benefits of HCL Universal Orchestrator
HCL Universal Orchestrator delivers the speed, agility and innovation needed for businesses to enhance cost-efficiency, customer focus and productivity. As a comprehensive solution for all essential automation needs, it allows customizable component use tailored to your specific requirements.
Key benefits include:
- Digital transformation catalyst: The HCL Automation Orchestration suite is designed to thrive in modern IT environments, encompassing cloud-native infrastructure and big data workloads. Its innovative offerings will enhance strategic goals, ensuring a reliable and flexible solution throughout the digital transformation journey.
- Lower total cost of ownership (TCO): Eliminate cost concerns with the HCL Automation Orchestration suite, designed to save you up to 40% in TCO compared to competitors, with no hidden costs.
- Simplify and control complexity: UnO offers a unified console and automation engine to manage complex workloads and data pipelines effectively. By consolidating business processes onto a single platform, it reduces complexity and enhances speed and agility, eliminating the need for a disparate set of tools.
- Multi-cloud infrastructure: HCL Universal Orchestrator is designed to meet diverse requirements and quickly align with your internal strategy, accommodating potential changes. It operates across on-premises, cloud, or dedicated SaaS environments, ensuring compatibility with GCP, AWS, Azure, or on-premise servers. With minimal disruption to business operations, it only requires data export, distinguishing it from other solutions in the market.
- Democratization of automation: Traditionally, businesses needed significant personnel to monitor requests and implement workflow automation. Now, however, you can streamline process control with NLP, predictive analytics and AI-driven optimization, with corresponding cost savings. The HCL Universal Orchestrator platform employs a microservices model with active configuration features for rapid orchestration and efficient digital and cloud transformation.
Conclusion
As businesses adopt hyperautomation, the impact on operational efficiency will increase. Hyperautomation in cloud migration is intended to streamline complex workflows, speed up transitions and reduce errors while scaling across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. By integrating RPA, AI and machine learning, hyperautomation takes automation to the next level, orchestrating end-to-end workflows with intelligence and agility.
By incorporating emerging innovations like virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR) into hyperautomation, organizations can provide immersive collaboration experiences for remote teams, improve training with realistic simulations and give interactive support. These technologies will visualize and interact with data in innovative ways, resulting in better comprehension of complex data.
Start your journey to a more automated and efficient future today. Schedule a demo for an automation orchestration solution and take the first step toward seamless transformation.