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[Webinar] Generate custom PDFs from your automated workflows
It’s a common requirement among our customers – they love the advantages of online workflows such as dynamic behavior and built-in mobile but need to generate their own PDF document. For example, a Federal W-4 or I-9 during Employee On-Boarding. With frevvo, you don’t have to choose.
Join us on this webinar on June 7 at 1.00 PM EDT. In just 45 minutes (including Q&A), we will:
- show you examples that customers are using today, and
- demonstrate how you can drag & drop to easily create your own custom PDFs.
You can generate multiple PDFs, conditionally generate some PDFs and not others (e.g. a state W-4 depending on which state the employee resides in), save these PDFs in back end systems, send them by email etc.
Learn more: Try an example and read detailed documentation on our website.
Stop Taxing your own future
Digital technology is convenient and fun. Apps that let us hail a cab, sensors in your shoes and shiny websites are all fun and remind us that “Software is indeed eating the world”.
In today’s business world, digital has moved from toys of convenience to core business processes that are at the heart of every organization. In most cases, these processes hide in their own disjointed silos along with their data. But, as digital accelerates business speed, automating these processes, linking them and surfacing their data to customer-facing operations is the first crucial step towards digitally transforming your business.
A Digital Operating Model
The same people who’re used to shiny digital apps are also your customers, patients, students and employees. They want to interact with you online, 24×7, on their mobile phones using a variety of channels. To be truly successful, you have to invest in observing your customers, students & patients and in really understanding how they interact with your services, and what frustrates or inspires them. This access to critical data allows employees to be responsive to their constituents. Business analytics help make sense of that data so the organization can react quickly and make informed business decisions.
Process Automation is the Foundation
Organizations that insist on “business-as-usual” with siloed processes and data lingering in the analog (paper) world risk being relegated to irrelevance. Automated processes allow you to jettison outdated business practices, free up employees to focus on work that’s actually important and unlock your most valuable asset (proprietary data).
To make a real difference, you owe it to yourself to go through your processes one by one, automate and connect them across the disparate systems and silos in your organization so you can create amazing new digital experiences for your constituents.
There’s “Hidden Treasure” in Process Automation
The best part is there are huge cost-reduction benefits to automating your day-to-day workflows. We’re talking about driving 50% or greater cost reductions in parts of your back office operations. Smart organizations will invest those savings right back into digital innovation. Failure to do so is like imposing a tax on your own future. If you don’t take advantage of process automation to lower costs, how will you invest in the myriad technologies and innovations needed to win in a fully digital world? Software should be eating your back office too.
A Roadmap for Digital Transformation
Convinced that you need to dive into process automation? Where to start? I.T. is overloaded, mobility requirements are soaring, there’s a serious skills gap, security is a concern, and data integration and scalability are challenging. It’s enough to make ones head spin. Nevertheless, you must get started TODAY!
The good news is that it’s getting easier. New visual, low-code, drag-and-drop software platforms like frevvo are making it easier to automate routine processes and infuse “digital” into operations. A platform like frevvo dramatically increases productivity since it enables citizen developers not just coders-by-trade to automate processes. Included responsive design tools mean that the resulting web applications automatically work on all devices and are easy to update.
frevvo’s platform also doesn’t require the same skill set as native app development does thereby addressing one of the most important barriers to mobility.
Point-and-click wizards enable processes to use data in a variety of systems from Cloud-based systems like Salesforce and box.com to Microsoft SharePoint and internal SQL databases. When automated workflows can connect to systems and use data, they’re simply far more useful.
Finally, frevvo is available in the Cloud enabling customers to add-on and remove capacity as needed. Cloud providers have years of experience scaling their systems and keeping them secure. In fact, the vast majority of Cloud systems are far more secure than their data- center counterparts.
A modern workflow automation platform like frevvo provides transformative benefits:
- Streamlined, efficient workflows that allow employees to focus on customers.
- Built-in mobility.
- Business agility to react quickly to changing market conditions.
- Dashboards that provide insights into your business and facilitate optimization of processes.
- Data-driven decision making.
Download this white paper which discusses workflow automation, how your organization can benefit, and how you can evaluate and deploy a visual, low-code platform like frevvo for your automation needs.
Visit our website to learn more and sign up for a free trial.
Will my company be “Uberized”?
… or Amazoned or AirBnB’d? Think about it. When was the last time you went into a travel agency to book your flight? Printed out directions for your road trip? Walked into the bank to write a check for cash? We can’t remember either.
Automation isn’t coming; it’s here!
Just look around you. See those core business processes. One way or another, they’ll be automated. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime and it’ll change your organization.
Automating these core processes isn’t just about driving 5% cost reductions but 50% (or more) in parts of your operations. It’s about changing and enhancing what your people do, Monday to Friday, 9 to 5.
You have to start TODAY!
Manual knowledge processes do not stand a chance. In a world of “Amazon cost” and “Google speed”, you have to automate. But how? I.T. is overloaded. Where do you start?
Download this white paper which discusses workflow automation, how your organization can benefit, and how you can evaluate and deploy a visual, low-code platform like frevvo for your automation needs.
Visit our website to learn more and sign up for a free trial.
Top 5 HR processes our customers have automated
The HR Department usually has broad reach within most organizations and often deals with a high volume of processes and policies. Yet many HR specialists still routinely manage requests through email, phone calls and paper forms. In fact, 40% of their time is spent on administrative work such as entering data from one systemto another.
“Just shoot HR an email”
Employees are used to it but even for relatively small organizations, the workload on HR can quickly multiply. Automating your routine HR processes makes a huge difference. Systems like Workday and PeopleSoft have specific HR workflows but they’re extremely expensive and are hard to fit to your business needs – implementations routinely run into 7 figures.
Many of our customers have successfully automated their HR processes literally in a matter of days at a tiny fraction of those costs. The forms and workflows exactly fit their business requirements and are easy to design/customize using our browser-based designers. Here are 5 common HR processes that we see customers automating.
1. Employee On-boarding & Off-boarding
Ensure that your new employees go through a consistent on-boarding experience. Collect accurate information with online forms that perform validation. Employees need to enter data just once and sign just once. Automatically generate Government PDFs like a Federal W-4. Notify relevant departments such as I.T. (procure a smartphone or laptop, access to network drives).
2. Vacation Request
Reduce administrative overhead, ensure regulatory noncompliance and prevent lost productivity due to unscheduled absences. Accurately capture approvals and dates for leave requests with complete, traceable documentation.
3. Travel Expense Report
The most painful part of business travel for many employees. Avoid the usual to-and-fro emails between employees and managers for pre-authorization of travel and expense reconciliation. Capture approvals and expense quickly and accurately using an online workflow even on-the-go on a mobile device.
4. Time Sheet Tracking
Managers typically spend several hours per week sorting through employee time sheets. Using email for this process is guaranteed to be frustrating for everyone concerned – a slow, arduous, error-prone process that’s impossible to track. Automate this process to ensure accurate fully-validated time sheets that just work.
5. Annual Performance Review
Streamline the usual Word documents or Excel spreadsheets with an automated performance review process. Reduce completion time, ensure accuracy and consistency, integrate electronic signatures and let employees see where they are in the process. Ensure compliance with your organization’s HR policies.
These 5 HR processes are just the tip of the iceberg. There are dozens more from Employee Status Change to Benefits Enrollment to Change of Personal Information, Hiring & Recruiting, Absence Records and many others.
Try frevvo’s Cloud Workflow for HR free for 30 days. There’s nothing to install, we take care of security, uptime and performance. Your system will automatically work on all devices and we offer lots of build-in guidance as well as many forms of no-obligation help.
Contact us to schedule a customized demo and to learn more.
[Video] Employee On-Boarding Demo
Employee On-Boarding is one of the most common day-to-day workflows. Many customers choose Live Forms for this and other HR workflows. With Live Forms, automating this workflow is easy and provides several benefits:
- New employees only need to provide information once.
- Errors and omissions are eliminated.
- Required PDF documents like Federal and State W-4s are automatically generated.
Watch this short (3 min) video to quickly see how digitizing this routine workflow with frevvo can help save you time & money.
[Video] HR Process Automation
One of the business problems customers most frequently solve with frevvo is HR process automation. Routine things like Employee On-boarding, Leave Approvals etc.
These everyday activities take an exorbitant amount of time if done manually. Employees and managers are waiting longer than necessary and spending more time/money than necessary to tackle these routine tasks. There’s also a much higher rate of inaccuracy in the manual process. Our infographics and other blog articles discuss how frevvo’s affordable, cloud-based workflow products for HR process automation can improve efficiencies in these areas. We’ve also created a short (2 min) video below to show you the benefits of using frevvo for HR process automation.
Interested in learning more? Visit our website to and see how customers are already using frevvo’s public and private cloud solutions to digitize their HR approval workflows.
[Infographic] HR Process Automation
We’ve discussed in previous posts how customers are using frevvo for HR process automation. It’s one of the most common areas for automating workflows with frevvo.
The fact is that everyday approval processes such as employee on-boarding, leave approval and time sheets take an exorbitant amount of time if done manually. Employees and managers are waiting longer than necessary and spending more time/money than necessary to tackle these routine tasks. There’s also a much higher rate of inaccuracy in the manual process.
Check out this new infographic on the value/benefits of automating your day-to-day HR workflows.
It’s 2016! There’s simply no excuse for outdated, manual systems that cause delays, result in unhappy customers and missed business opportunities.
With affordable, cloud-based workflow products for HR process automation, there’s no need to deal with printing PDFs for signatures, correcting Excel-based time sheets, or tracking down approvals in email.
Learn more by visiting our website. Explore some of the examples, read customer success stories and contact us for more details.