Process automation & integrations

By three signs: the task repeats, it follows fixed rules, and it annoys somebody. The third is meant seriously, because tasks people find dull are exactly the ones with the most slips. Do the rough sum: effort per run times how often per year. Two hours a month reshaping an export file is three working days a year. We look at your processes in the first conversation and name the ones most worth doing.

Then there is usually still a way, just a more involved one. Common routes are file exchange through a fixed location, direct database access agreed with the vendor, or reading the regular export function. What we avoid are approaches that remote-control a piece of software’s interface, because those break with every update. If no workable route exists, we say so before quoting rather than discovering it mid-project.

You find out, immediately. Every process logs what it handled and reports errors by email to an address you nominate. More importantly, a failed run leaves no half-transferred data but rolls back to the last clean state. The next run catches up on what was missed. A silent failure, where nobody notices for months that nothing is running, is the failure mode we design out.

For simple chains, yes, and then that is exactly what we recommend. Drag-and-drop automation tools reach their limits when data volumes grow and per-task billing gets expensive, when a system has no ready-made connector, or when a process has so many special cases that it becomes unmaintainable in the builder. Data protection is another point: with many of these services your data passes through someone else’s servers, which can be a problem depending on the content.

Usually two to six weeks. A single connection between two systems with documented interfaces is up quickly. Several workflows, systems without an interface or data that has to be cleaned up first take longer. We start with the workflow that costs the most time today, so the automation pays off early, and add others afterwards. You receive a binding schedule together with the fixed-price quote.

Small adjustments during the project are included in the fixed price. We work in short steps and show you the current state continuously, so changes surface early rather than at the end. If a new requirement comes up that goes beyond the agreed scope, you receive a quote for it first, also at a fixed price. You decide whether it is built now or in a later stage. Nothing gets more expensive without your prior agreement.