Low Code is The Intelligent Automation Enabler

Intelligent Automation
Humanizing artificial intelligence for better process automation
Swaran Soft
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Three reasons companies have had limited success with
their automation efforts
Adopt a people-first mindset
Take an end-to-end approach
Rapidly iterate
Low-code is the intelligent automation enabler
OutSystems IA Low-code Framework
OutSystems on Amazon Web Services
Get started with OutSystems today
About OutSystems
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Low-code application
development platform
Foreword
Intelligent Automation is not about replacing people. It’s about taking uniquely human
strengths—like intuition and judgment—and combining them with intelligent tools
like artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation (RPA) to deliver superior
organizational outcomes.
A low-code application development platform is an essential enabler of intelligent automation
(IA). OutSystems is the world’s #1 Low-code Platform™ for enterprises wanting to optimize
how their staff interface with increasingly intelligent internal systems and better manage
their business.
Identified as a leader in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code
Application Platforms, the OutSystems platform delivers intelligent automation through three
key capabilities:
UX/UI templates to
improve staff interactions
with applications
Pre-built connectors to
facilitate access to data
and services
Secure and agile
change management

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Introduction
While many companies have started automating
business processes, particularly in the context
of digital transformation, most have seen mixed
results and limited success.
Today, many of those same companies assume that
intelligent automation will provide better results.
But without an intelligent approach, they’re likely
to once again fall short of their expectations
Do not think of intelligent automation as replacing
people. Think of it as enhancing the value your
employees deliver to your organization.

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Three reasons companies experienced limited success
with their automation efforts
A poorly-advised belief prioritized
eliminating people instead of capitalizing
on their value to the organization.
Employee involvement continues to fuel
the organization’s evolving needs. Failures
arise when humans cannot effectively
interact with digital systems and
automated processes.
Organizations limited their success
when applying a shortsighted focus on
automating process islands only, and
not recognizing the need to orchestrate
processes end-to-end. They often
forgot to manage their white spaces
(the areas between organizational silos)
and merely shifted inefficiencies from
one area to another instead of taking a
holistic, integrated approach to
optimizing their business.
Not iterating
Understand that digital transformation
is an evolution, and there is a need to
learn from individual efforts,
to understand what can be done better
and how to improve continuously. Be
mindful of misguided thinking that you
can do it once, and you’re done.
OutSystems is the practical approach for
enabling intelligent automation to realize
its full potential to the organization
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1Not putting people first Taking a disconnected
approach

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Adopt a people-first mindset
Humanizing artificial intelligence (AI) can make intelligent automation (IA) efforts
better. The OutSystems low-code people-first solution helps you do this with pre-built
UX/UI components that improve how people interact with software applications.
Digital tasks and procedures that can be standardized and automated should be.
Cloud-based robotic process automation (RPA) and AI deliver solutions for repetitive
tasks in many organizations today. But they have their limitations. In practice, people
will continue to provide significant value as RPA and AI are developed
and implemented.
Use OutSystems to automate digital tasks and procedures that continue to require
human intervention and constantly evolve them to meet changing business needs.
Improving how staff interacts with their specialized departmental applications will
result in process improvements for multiple departmental workflows and increased
organizational productivity.

Assets & inventory
Compliance
Consumer apps
Content & marketing
Customer services
Development tools
Events & scheduling
Field services
Finance
Helpdesk & support
Human resources
Operations & logistics
Productivity & utilities
Sales
Workflow & processes
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Take an end-to-end approach
Looking at business processes holistically ensures you’re optimizing across your entire
organization, and not just improving one department at the expense of another. The
OutSystems low-code end-to-end solution comes with connectors for integrating data, and
tools for orchestrating your islands of automation.
Well-intentioned managers trying to improve departmental operations, coupled with
organizational silos, can pose challenges for organizations seeking to optimize cross-
functional business processes. Limited information and poor visibility can result in suboptimal
decision-making.
Use OutSystems to bring together the necessary data from across your organization - from
individual departmental databases, to corporate systems of record. Use its visual frameworks
and builders to quickly design, monitor and improve your cross functional business processes.
With greater transparency, you can evaluate trade-offs, and take a more integrated approach
to optimizing globally vs. locally.

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Rapidly iterate
Improving large, complex projects is easier if you can break them down into smaller steps
and take an iterative approach. The OutSystems low-code iterative solution includes the
tools, automation, and governance necessary to support agile, efficient, and secure change
management, and to easily incorporate feedback for continuous improvement.
Taking a step-wise approach to business process improvement and leveraging lessons learned,
is an intelligent way to implement process automation. But for it to be practical, the change
management processes must also be agile and efficient. It’s not enough to build apps fast. You
also need to quickly modify them, assess the impacts, and then make more changes - all while
simultaneously keeping your environment secure and minimizing technical debt.
Use OutSystems to rapidly assemble and modify the applications to intelligently automate and
orchestrate your core business processes. It’s model-driven approach to managing workflow
logic, UI and data access, combined with AI powered automation to check and manage
application dependencies and code vulnerabilities, helps you understand performance issues
and address design bottlenecks in near real time.
The OutSystems low-code platform delivers
three key components
AI-powered
platform services
Security validation Application
monitoring

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Low-code is
the intelligent automation enabler
Using low code allows developers to evolve UI/UX into more powerful and reliable
applications, automate access to data, and rapidly apply application modifications, benefiting
the entire organization.
End to End
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Continuous
Improvement
People First
Approach
High Performance
Low Code

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OutSystems IA Low-code Framework
OutSystems offers an extensive library of specialized low-code interface elements, connectors to popular third-party services, and change
management tools.
UX/UI
100+ responsive visual components
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Platform features that enable and facilitate
INTEGRATION
Integration Builder Connectors
Web and mobile app screen templates:
Dashboards
Details
Forms
Galleries
Lists
Onboarding
UI patterns:
Adaptive
Content
Interaction
Navigation
Numbers
Utilities
Widgets
Design kits and plugins:
Figma
Sketch
Live style guide
Amazon Aurora
Dataverse
IBM DB2
Microsoft Dynamics 365
MongoDB
MySQL
Oracle
PostgreSQL
Salesforce
SAP
Sharepoint
SQL Azure
SQL Server
LifeTime
Unified console for OutSystems application
lifecycle management (CI/CD)
OutSystems Platform Server
Automated deployment
TrueChange
Impact analysis
Code Generator
Service Center
Performance monitoring, viewing logs
App Feedback
Architecture Dashboard
Technical debt monitoring tool

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OutSystems on AWS
OutSystems works closely with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make AWS services easy to
integrate into the applications built with the OutSystems low-code platform. Furthermore,
OutSystems and AWS certify and support those services running on AWS.
By leveraging OutSystems and AWS, organizations can quickly and easily orchestrate their
islands of automation, and implement comprehensive, integrated, end-to-end
intelligent automation solutions that provide both innovation and value throughout every
department.
The shortest distance to intelligent automation for the cloud is through OutSystems and AWS.
AWS Partner Network Awards honor OutSystems for
both Technology Innovation and Social Impact 2020
SUPPORT
for 170+AWS services including
AWS AI/ML/RPA
APPS
supported on AWS Cloud

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Get started with OutSystems today
Learn more about OutSystems and how it can add value throughout your organization:
Learn more about OutSystems IA by visiting the website.
Easily—and quickly—create mind-blowing software using the speed of visual development
with OutSystems on AWS. Visit OutSystems on AWS Marketplace:
AWS Marketplace
Let’s talk low-code and IA. Speak to an OutSystems human:
aws-partner-team@outsystems.com

About OutSystems
OutSystems was founded in 2001 with the mission to give every organization the power
to innovate through software. The OutSystems low-code application platform’s high
productivity, connected, and AI-assisted tools help developers rapidly build and deploy a full
range of applications anywhere the organization requires. With over 584,000 community
members, approximately 1,600 employees, more than 400 partners, and active customers
in 87 countries and across 22 industries, OutSystems is recognized globally for helping
organizations change the way they develop applications.
OutSystems is named a Leader and positioned highest for its ability to execute.
Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms, 2021
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About OutSystems
Thousands of customers worldwide trust OutSystems—the only
solution that enables the visual development of entire application
portfolios that easily integrate with existing systems.
Learn more at www.outsystems.com
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