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Interviewed by Adam Burroughs | Smart Business Magazine | INSIGHTS Digital Transformation

Legacy systems are relied upon to perform an organization's day-to-day work. But, in many cases, technology has improved drastically since companies first implemented those systems, leading to a point at which the tasks those systems perform could strain those systems beyond what they can handle. This opens the door to failure, user frustration and more.

"When your system no longer supports scalability, you lose the competitive advantage in the market," says Nishan Kumar, project manager at EOX Vantage.

Smart Business spoke with Kumar about how to recognize when it's time to address the problems caused by older legacy systems, and how upgrades can improve workflows.

Automation looks to solve problems that arise through manual reporting, an often tedious process that's prone to errors. It also enables organizations to supply the same information to multiple parties or segment it based on their relationship to the data.

"The big thing for organizations now is trying to get clean and consistent information," says Varun Badarinath, senior product engineer at EOX Vantage. "Manual processes tend to create errors that affect data integrity, a foundational component of decision-making. Automation works to get things standardized so data is timely and consistent."

Interviewed by Adam Burroughs | Smart Business Magazine | INSIGHTS Digital Transformation

The typical data collection process within companies is often fraught with challenges. Just the magnitude of it can create issues when it comes to formatting, reading and interpreting data. And data can also quickly become dated either because of issues with the consistency of collection or where visibility relies on manual entry.

"Companies often make real-time decisions based upon reports comprised of old, "stale" data," says Mike Fieseler, vice president of business development at EOX Vantage. "That's akin to managing in the rearview mirror."

Fortunately, there are now a variety of ways to automate gathering and consolidating that data. 

Interviewed by Adam Burroughs | Smart Business Magazine | INSIGHTS Digital Transformation

Businesses should use data they collect to validate decisions, measure performance and find areas of improvement. To do that, data should be visible, consistently formatted and shareable. But it's typically not.

"Business data often needs to be formed into a better, more consumable shape," says Mehul Kenia, a product architect at EOX Vantage. "That's usually because it's stored in discrete systems, even when companies take a cloud-based approach to storage. That makes data hard to link for a clear, holistic picture."

Automation 101

Interviewed by Adam Burroughs | Smart Business Magazine | INSIGHTS Digital Transformation

Workflow automation, a key element of the solution strategies known as "digital transformation," enables companies to automate various business processes. This can have a big impact not just on efficiency and accuracy, but on motivation and morale as well.

Interviewed by Adam Burroughs | Smart Business Magazine

Many companies understand the importance, or at least the utility, of cloud platforms and have migrated a great deal of their systems and applications there. Some have digitized processes as a way to save time and money and help move staff to more productive tasks. In these cases, employees are comfortable working and accessing information on the cloud.

"That's really helped them minimize the loss of productivity or efficiency that companies with only on-premise systems likely experienced when, suddenly, their workforce was compelled to work remote," says Sudhir Achar, CEO of EOX Vantage.

Interviewed by Jayne Gest

Organizations don't always have complete control over their data. Perhaps, a third party hosts it, the data isn't in the right format for those who need it, or employees are spending time manually inputting data or moving it from one system to another. 

However, data that isn't controllable, accessible or shareable is pretty much worthless. It can't be used to improve business decisions.

Interviewed by Jayne Gest

Interviewed by Jayne Gest

Staying legally compliant is an ongoing challenge for business owners, especially when disruptive regulations like California's Assembly Bill 5, or gig worker bill, pass swiftly with little time for feedback.