Business Solutions
Business solutions at DevHub means automating and connecting the systems a company already uses, rather than replacing them. The work targets the manual steps between tools — the re-typing, the copy-paste and the spreadsheet that three departments depend on.
Who this is for
Operations and finance teams whose process works but costs hours a week in manual handling, and businesses running several tools that do not talk to each other.
Problems this solves
- The same data is entered by hand into two or three different systems.
- A critical spreadsheet is maintained by one person and understood by nobody else.
- Reports are assembled manually every month and are out of date by the time they circulate.
- Two systems the business depends on have no integration between them.
How the work runs
- 1
Follow the process as it runs today
Including the workarounds. The undocumented steps are usually the ones keeping the process alive.
- 2
Automate the repetitive part, not the judgement
Steps that need a human decision stay with the human. Automating judgement is how automation projects lose the trust of the people using them.
- 3
Measure against the manual baseline
Time taken before and after, recorded. Without a baseline the improvement is a claim rather than a result.
Technologies we use for this
Common questions
- Do we have to replace our current systems?
- Usually not. Most of the value is in connecting what is already in place; replacement is proposed only when the existing tool genuinely cannot do the job.
- What if our process changes after the automation is built?
- Processes change, so the automation is built to be edited. Which parts are expected to move is agreed during the first step.
Talk to us about business solutions
Tell us what you are trying to build or fix, and we will tell you whether we are the right people for it.
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