Our company has seen crazy growth over the last 10 to 12 years. We have been up 20 percent year-over-year for that amount of time. Without some of this automation, we would not have the time to invest in developing a full solution or custom applications to handle some stuff because things are changing so quick. It's not worth the investment or there is not enough time to keep up. Constantly hiring more people isn't always an option either. It's sort of a necessity with the growth that we've seen to use this to help with some of the pain points that we have just around growth challenges. Especially at the higher levels of the organization, they see quite a bit of value in the solution.

It has really helped us with efficiency and accuracy. We literally have teams of people just sitting in front of a computers typing in data from Excel sheets all day. That is all they do. We have so many other roles and new challenges associated with our business growth that we could use those bodies. People who have been with the organization a while that we can take those people and say, "Instead of just manually keying all this stuff, go work on something that's a value-add. You know the business and you're familiar with our systems, so go do this instead." That is the biggest win, especially with our state's unemployment being pretty low and filling jobs can be a challenge when finding good people. We want to take the people that we have and leverage them for the things which really help the organization.

It is still a small footprint. In the last 30 days, we've automated 216 hours of work. That is not a lot. However, when you talk about how many people hours that is, it's probably double, if not more than that. So, it is not a huge impact, but in the couple of places that we've deployed it, it has been nice to be able to just send an email in and have it turned around to you from the bot. Within 10 to 15 minutes, the task is done instead of having to send it to a person and rely on them to do it, then get back to you, or they might be on a lunch break, etc. Some of these are critical areas where there's not a lot of time. It's definitely been a benefit to those departments.

I don't think it saves any time from the analyst or IT side. It is an investment upfront to build this stuff and to dig in and find where the opportunities are. We just installed the Kryon Process Discovery service, but we haven't really used it a whole lot yet. Therefore, I can't speak to its efficacy. Hopefully, it will help in this area. 

They make it pretty easy to use this solution for the full-cycle of automation from the discovery of processes to turning on the automation and scaling it up. We just installed Process Discovery. In theory, that should work quite well. It recommends what processes if identified are best for automation versus those that are highly complicated or have a lot of bearings. We haven't gotten the value out of that yet because it's brand new. 

We have some idea of what we wanted to start with. We have been able to expand on that since embracing Kryon a bit more. We originally went into this solution knowing there were some processes which were extremely manual and wanted to take on automating. Once we got into using more of the advanced commands, we got through with some of our first, second, and third wizards, then we were able to take a step back, and say, "Here are all the functions that I've now learned to work with. I want to put them into higher level of development." We were able to expand the idea of something very simplistic, a three or four-step process, then move it over to a 50 or 60-step process. Because of those advanced commands, we could condense them down, which was something we didn't know at the time would be a reality.

Kryon has helped our existing workforce embrace the digital transformation of our organization. We now have people who are more interested than ever in moving over to digital processing. We are able to focus on key components of the business which can't be processed through automation.

We have seen some significant drops in employee errors. However, your data is only as good as what you receive. Errors have reduced by 80 percent based on the processes that we have automated by the sheer fact that we don't have people touching so many of them.

We have been able to streamline some processes just by using RPA. That has improved them.

It has benefited our organization through automated rates and pricing. We built an automated rate system that runs four times a day. Our initial analytics coming back from that rate system for a single two-day period in July performed over 25,000 individual rate changes across just under 600 hotels. 

With this volume of activity, there is no way that we could hire enough revenue managers to perform those volume of rate changes. This rate system has allowed us to be more responsive and competitive with our rates with less human involvement. It is leaving our revenue managers free to work with properties, identify special events where things might want to be increased, etc., rather than spending their time updating rates. Instead, they can now just submit a special event and what they want the rates to be, then the system will adopt these into the existing strategy that is being implemented automatically.

It has been straightforward and smooth to use this solution for the full-cycle of automation from the discovery of processes to turning on the automation and scaling it up. We have three dedicated environments: development, UAT, and production. We build things out, then test them in development. It is very easy for us to transition them out of development into user acceptance testing. Once our users are happy, it is a very easy, seamless process for us to transfer that into production, enable the triggers, and turn it on. The ease of being able to bring things into production and through the development cycle is quite straightforward.

This solution has helped our existing workforce embrace the digital transformation of our organization. We have multiple departments currently coming up to us, and saying, "Hey, when can we meet and talk about things? We have things we want to automate." We have other departments starting to to reach out and show an interest in having parts of their processes streamlined or automated. For example, one of the processes that we are working on automating would be a hotel room type of change. So, if a hotel has a bunch of rooms in their hotel, and they want to transform them into a different room type, it is a very long, slow process. It's very monotonous and repetitive. This is a really good candidate for automation. Right now, we are working with that department to automate that specific process. For them to do it by hand right now, it takes them almost a full seven days to perform, but with automation, we can do it in almost half that time. These type of requests happen regularly. Therefore, there are more of them to do than there are people. This automation will allow us to perform the requests that we have faster, but also keep up with future requests.

When we approach the departments about automation, we put a high stress that the solution is complimentary and will elevate the human workforce. This way they can do the more important things while not having to worry about filling out an Excel spreadsheet with 600 fields. Most of them, when they hear that they won't have to fill out all those fields anymore and they'll just have to worry about the more important aspects of it, they typically end up pretty happy. They seem to be pretty receptive to it. However, you'll always run into a few people who will have the concern that automation might take their jobs, but it hasn't happened so far.

With any of the processes that we have deployed, the accuracy and rate of errors coming back is much lower than what we would typically see. There have been a lot less things going through the automation that we need to adjust, fix after the fact, or touch manually.

Kryon RPA has improved our operational efficiency. 

It has helped us identify areas where frontline staff aren't following standard procedures or using unexpected systems, giving us better insight into our end users' workflows.

The process discovery feature of Kryon RPA enhances our automation strategy.  It reveals activities on the user's desktop, capturing hidden knowledge not mentioned in interviews.

The currency automation saves us around five minutes per day, but it has to be done every day. For this one, the amount of time is irrelevant. It's more that there are many processes that rely on the currency. So if it hasn't been done or is done late, it can delay other processes. So the value here is more than how much time it saves us. The second one saves us approximately five to ten minutes per day. The third one, the delivery note process, is more difficult to calculate since we have approximately 200 points of sale. Each one has one to two deliveries per week and it takes five to 10 minutes for each point of sale to create these delivery notes manually. So it saves us 2,000 minutes, about 1.5 times a week. The last one, the one that is going live next week, is more significant. It will save approximately a day per week for an employee.

As for operational efficiency, the automatic delivery notes is most significant. From the 200 managers, the bit of feedback that I have gotten is very positive. From the others, I have to admit that it's more minor.

Of course it has helped to reduce employee errors, especially with the delivery notes, since the correct number is very important. If you enter "11" instead of "one," a type-o, it's very significant because it is an expensive product. Definitely, in terms of user-error, we have improved on that a lot. Before Kryon, there were one to two errors per day, or about 50 per month. We found most of them later on and then someone had to remediate them. It has saved us significant man-hours.

Once I decide a process is suitable as a Kryon solution, the cycle of automation is quite quick. I learn about the existing process and I'm one of the two guys who program the Kryon environment. It's relatively simple. There are many details, but once you understand the concept it is quite easy.

To give you an example, we worked on a client-onboarding scenario. Client-onboarding, when run manually, was typically taking about 45 minutes for just one customer, because the process is so lengthy and because of the amount of information required. In addition, it was updating four systems and there was work done to match the systems, which required a migration piece. Now, with automation, we capture it once, in one system, and then onboard this information to two or three other systems. It now takes a maximum of about eight minutes, compared to the 45 minutes of work when it was done manually.

It has definitely also helped our workforce embrace digital transformation. We have implemented this with onboarding processes, email processes, and the like. It has now spread to multiple LOBs and they're talking to us, including HR, finance, and more.

The bots result in a lot of effort saved and that means we don't need to hire people to do certain jobs. It's saving money on FTEs. I estimate that when we run a business use case, the typical savings are four to five FTEs per month. In terms of business analysts' time, out of eight hours, typically four hours are saved. Operational efficiency has increased more than 50 to 60 percent. Finally, it saves us time when launching new automation processes, by about 30 percent.

We've already automated about 40 hours' worth of weekly savings. It has definitely helped us to implement some of the workflows that I've shared with you and to take that work away from our partners so they can focus more on other, more valuable work.

As a company that places temporary employees, we have talent globally. In the UK there are GDPR requirements. Before Kryon, when one of our field employees reached out to us saying that we needed to remove their records, that was all done manually. Now, that’s something done by the robot, giving people time back and reducing possible entry mistakes. It’s the same thing with fee entries within our system. That is something that might take somebody ten hours, whereas a robot will be able to take that off somebody’s hands and ideally reduce the time to complete.

In terms of embracing the digital transformation, there is the question of whether people are going to be accepting of tasks being taken away from them and what they're going to do with that time. But a lot of people have really embraced it, especially people who were taking ten hours to put fees into our system and who will be able to use that time for more productive and less mindless tasks.

It takes a lot of work and time to complete the business processes manually. When the users utilize the Kryon solution, it cuts off more than 50 percent of the processing time as the logic has been pre-built. There are less orders being delayed. Adopting Kryon solution has significantly improved the turnaround time.

The process I noted above is a main business area with a lot of very specific processes inside - we have now more than 15 specific processes in this business area. All of them, as of now, have saved us almost six FTEs. That's a lot of money. The savings are great and they will increase every month.

In the last month, we achieved 11,000 activities done by robot. Before Kryon, we did 500 each month. When we started with automation ten months ago we did a few hundred. Each month we have added more and more processes and more and more activities. It's quite dramatic, because we took a very complex business area, and every activity in it which can be done automatically is being replaced by the robot instead of people working on them.

In terms of Kryon helping us embrace digital transformation, we are very advanced in this area. More than 70 percent of our interactions with customers are digital. But Kryon helped us with some of the processes which are more complicated, where we had people doing things in the back-office after the digital process. Now we can do more of them automatically. It's another step in the same direction for us.

We are a digital company. We very quickly embrace all kinds of digital transformation. Kryon was just a part of that. We have engaged in digital transformation in many ways in our company. But the adoption of Kryon was very quick, and that is its advantage. Because it is a very quickly and very intuitively customized system, it helped us to adopt it through users who are not technical users. It really helped us to put a lot of automated processes in the system and adopt them very quickly. Now, my organization wants more. They say, "How did we live without it before?" It really helps us in our day-to-day processes, the ones that are not so complicated, not so involved, that we do over and over again.

Efficiency has increased. If robots are doing stuff we used to do, this increases the efficiency of the staff.

One way the solution has improved the way our organization functions is that we have used RPA to align addresses between systems. We have a few central systems which hold the customer addresses. Sometimes the addresses are different in different systems. We find it very convenient to align the addresses by extracting the address from one system and using Kryon RPA to simulate the process of updating the address in the other system. It simulates the work of a clerk who used to regularly do so. We automated it and now the systems are aligned. The alternative was to develop interfaces, in the backend, between the systems, but that would have been very expensive.

RPA is part of the digital transformation. What we are doing is actually advancing the digital automation, and Kryon is a major part of it. When we automate processes, that's part of the digital transformation, making the organization more digital and more automated. The experience of our customers is very influenced by it. For example, we had a process for when a customer needed to deposit money when paying back a loan. If he didn't do it, he was late in his payments, we moved the process to the collection unit. Now, the collection unit uses RPA. The process is more efficient and the customer experience is better.

Because the processes we have automated mostly involve routine work, the solution hasn't saved business analysts' time, since they don't do routine work. But it has resulted in operational efficiencies. For the processes that we have automated, the efficiency has increased by 100 percent. We take processes that require human resources and we make them fully automatic.

We have a bot that creates a proposal using a request-for-proposal template that people fill out. We then create the proposal, based on that information, on our internal site. Another one is where we mail out payroll files that come in by reading a portion of the file to get payroll dates and the like. Those are two of our really big ones. The payroll bot saved 15,000 hours last year. For the other one, while I don't have specific metrics on total time saved, it went from a 30-minute, manual prep process to an eight-minute bot process.

It has helped us to find and prioritize processes that are ripe for automation, when we go searching for ideas. We just haven't been able to reach every department in our company yet because we're a big company and there's only so much time.

Our business users love it. Those 15,000 hours saved are a fantastic result and we're at a 99 percent success rate. Our bots very rarely fail, and if they do, most of the time it's because something is wrong with one of the websites that we are using and an unexpected error pops up. But they are loving it.

Finally, it has helped to reduce employee errors.

It has improved our organizational process in inbound and outbound tourism. The previous process was very complex and took at least a day for the users. Now, it is fully automated and saving a lot of hours for our back office.

The product is very useful for our organization. The process takes approximately a month.

Our organization has nothing between the digital and back office processes.

Because of this product, we started to look for more processes to deploy.

It has been helpful in reducing the manpower and error rate since we are able to run tasks 24/7 without interruptions. As humans definitely take breaks and there may be absenteeism that is unexpected, the solution provides continuous work. Humans tend to make errors once in a while, but the solution has almost zero percent errors.

We are able to cope with our clients's demands. No matter how much volume they throw at us, we are able to get it done quickly. That is where we see the biggest returns.

If a client gives us a new task, and it is a recurring volume, procedure, or SOP, then we are able to automate it within approximately a week. Then, they will be up and running with that automation. 

If it's a very simple task, we can automate it within about a week. If it's complex, then it will maybe be a couple of weeks to three weeks at most. We mostly differentiate simple and complex tasks by the number of steps involved. Sometimes, we need to cross check multiple accounts for a single request. We need to ensure all the information comes back correctly and that the logical calculations are done correctly. The more number of steps, the more complicated task that we will consider it to be.

We do code level modifications, which are already prewritten, and everything is with us. We don't use any of the advanced features of Kryon.

One way Kryon improves the way our company functions is in testing. Previously, we didn't have full coverage and we couldn't run a full regression day by day, or after major activities such as updates. We had to do it all manually and we didn't feel confident. Now, it's a completely different thing. We're trying to build a strong regression area where we can run a full regression of all our systems by clicking a button. We're not there yet, but we're heading that way. It's going to be a complete change in the way that IT acts because it gives us much more confidence.

Kryon will allow you to automate processes fast and easy and you do not need to be a developer to automate processes. The advanced command will let you integrate with other systems quite easy.

Kryon has saved us a bunch of money and time. Specifically, it sends reminders out for claims that have not been actioned after a set period of time; for example, dormant claims, which haven't been updated or touched in five years. We actually created a job to send out reminders to the brokers to try to get updates. Since then, we've been able to close numerous claims and therefore reduce our reserves by literally millions of dollars.

It has provided overall money savings and overall time savings. We've got dashboards that show our overall stats from all our jobs. So we can say robotics has saved X amount to date, Y hours per department. Some of the jobs measure finances. There are literally hundreds of hours and millions of dollars in savings.

The solution has also increased operational efficiency. The percentage varies per department, but there are some departments that are saving two hours a day of people's time, so that's quite significant. If you think about an eight-hour day, that's 25 percent for a department which is already stretched thin. Time is extremely valuable when resources are slim.

We have also seen a reduction in employee errors. One of our jobs for finance looks for potential duplicate invoices. There were instances in the past where duplicate invoices were sent out, bills were paid twice, etc. It has dramatically reduced that. I don't think we've had one since we implemented the job. The automation searches for anything that looks similar in specific fields, using search criteria, and then produces an exception report. Instead of having someone go through 10,000 lines in a spreadsheet, they then have about 50 lines to compare. Obviously, it's much easier to identify duplicates in 50 lines as opposed to 10,000.

Finally, Kryon has helped our existing workforce embrace the digital transformation of our company. There is, obviously, resistance to change no matter where you go. Certain people will respond differently. But overall, the response has been really supportive and positive, especially from management. They're very happy with the way things are developing, the way time has been freed up. Most of the developers, and most of the people who use the automation, are also happy. There are only one or two people who feel a little threatened by it still. They don't really voice it. It's just that you can sense the resistance. I think it's a fear of their jobs going away. In our case, there's enough work that people just need to be repurposed and do other work. There's more than enough work for everybody. It was never one of our objectives to eliminate full-time employees.

We cannot get into this legacy software. There are no APIs. It would cost a lot of money if we wanted to develop something like an API. This software enables us to overcome this API problem, automate things, and do it relatively quickly. It's low-cost development.

We're a bank. We get money transferred to the bank from other banks, but some of the data can be wrong. We know it's money coming to our bank, through a money transfer system in Israel of which we are a part. But if we cannot recognize which account number it belongs to, regulations require us to send the money back to the bank that transferred it to us. This happened every day. Until we had this Kryon RPA solution, there was a person sitting in front of a computer typing these transactions into the legacy system. It was all manual work and the person doing it would work, say, two hours a day doing these transactions. Now it's done automatically. 

So it's not just that we're saving the time of this person having to do this typing, but we have also improved this specific person's job satisfaction. She doesn't have to do this boring, hard work. Not only are we saving valuable time of our employees, but there is added value, like fewer typing mistakes.

Cuts time due to the building of a robot which runs during the night to perform time-consuming and tedious activities.