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Wayne Memorial Hospital is a community hospital that recently launched oncology services for its rural residents.

While the facility is relatively small at just 84 beds and 500 employees, its one of the few options for the locals of Wayne County and its surrounding southeast Georgia communities to receive this type of care without driving an hour or two by car.

There are four counties that are contiguous to us that do not have a hospital at all. Prior to us starting our oncology services, patients were having to drive at least 40 miles and as many as 75 miles to get careand thats not something that you want after getting six or eight hours of infusions, Greg Jones, chief financial officer at Wayne Memorial Hospital, told Fierce Healthcare.

Thanks to a partnership with Savannah, Georgia-based provider St. Josephs/Candler, Jones said that Wayne Memorials oncology has exceeded expectations. In August, the hospital will be wrapping up work on a new building for its growing infusion services.

However, the community hospital and its patients were stonewalled when it came to paying for the high-cost, specialty treatments.

Roughly 17.5% of Wayne County residents dont have any form of health insurance, and those enrolled in Medicare or a high-deductible commercial plan frequently have trouble meeting the copayments.

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Wayne Memorial operates a financial aid department that extends the treatments to these patients but, according to Jones, could only spare a single person to seek out and review eligibility for the philanthropic aid and rebates that would cover the costs.

A lot of [rural hospitals] lose money and fail, he said. Any type of financial mistake or misstep can cost the hospital its life, so we need to be able to get all of the reimbursement for our patients that we can.

The solution, Jones said, was a tech platform already in place at its partner St. Josephs/Candler. Developed by a Seattle-based startup called Atlas Health, the tool integrates with a hospitals clinical, financial and pharmaceutical systems to automate the end-to-end process of securing financial aid for patients with high-cost treatments.

We focus on this pod of a little over $30 billion in annual aid and basically connect the dots with matching the patients with programs, enrolling them in programs and then providing them all the reimbursement tasks in terms of claims and ordering drugs, Ethan Davidoff, founder and CEO of Atlas Health, told Fierce Healthcare. Patients can access care and not get saddled with a debt they cant paybut [it] also helps our health system partners remain solvent and run a smooth business operation.

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Atlas Healths platformwhich was a Fierce Innovation Awards 2020 finalist and according to Davidoff already in use among a handful of large, nationally-recognized integrated delivery networksis designed to be an extension of an organizations financial aid department.

Prior to signing on, the startup will conduct an ROI assessment that reviews a years worth of claims data to show organizations the opportunity, whats out there across this $30 billion, how youre doing today [and] whats the delta, Davidoff explained. That process involves a turnkey sequel script developed by Atlas that a potential partner will run across its systems, he said.

We give the health system partner the code for them to run, install, export the data and upload securely to our SFTP server. That way the health system doesnt have to incur all this IT lift where theyre working backward and have to build all this custom code, he said. Once that converts to a partner like Wayne Memorial, most of the core data integration with their systems and modeling out those payers is kind of already done.

That onboarding process was seamless as could be for Wayne Memorial, Jones said and demonstrated a return within their first month of deployment.

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According to the organizations, supplementing the hospitals staffed financial aid department with the automation tool led to a 75% reduction timefor clean claim submissions and a 50% time reduction for philanthropic aid applications. Jones also noted that his small hospital will now be able to provide an extra $1 million in additional care over the next 12 months, helping about 50 patients that would otherwise have been unable to pay for their treatments.

We didnt know all the different coverages that were out therewhat types of philanthropic organizations there were, what types of drug rebates, Jones said. Now, thats literally at [our employees] fingertips. They enter the information in and [the software] goes out electronically and searches that. I mean, somebody could spend hours on the phone for something that literally takes two minutes electronically.

While this type of automation is a particular boon for organizations with thin margins that cant afford to pay a lot of people to sit around do this work, Jones noted that larger groups would likely see a cost and time savings from automating their financial aid processes as well.

But just as important as the organizations short-term financial gainis the downstream benefits for patients and providers alike.

We have a fairly large population in our area that wont seek medical care just because they know theyre going to owe money for it, Jones said. Of course, that just ends up costing everyone more in the end [than] if people would just get the care they need.

So, being able to find this care and [show] were an established communitythat Hey, the hospital has a program that helps us find this and pay for it, and Im not having to pay anything for it? I think thats very helpful, and this type of service would work across any lines that a hospital would have not just oncology.

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WINDSOR, Conn., July 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSNC) today announced that CoreVest, a Redwood Trust Company,will implement Precision LM loan management software to improve automation and operational efficiency, streamline data access and reporting, and reduce risk.

CoreVest selected Precision LM for its flexibility to support a broad range of complex commercial loan types, including term loans, bridge loans (fixed, floating and adjustable-rate), construction loans, and model home leasing loans. In addition, Precision LM automates the loan lifecycle, from loan onboarding through shadow and real-estate owned (REO) servicing and accounting.

"CoreVest is committed to investing in technology to scale our business and enhance the client experience," said Christopher Hoeffel, President of CoreVest. "SS&C is the leader in this technology and provided us with the tools and expertise to consolidate multiple applications across business units. In addition, automation around our loan accounting and reporting processes will improve data flow and save significant time."

"We are pleased to welcome the leading lender for residential real estate investors to the SS&C family. Mortgage REITs and other non-bank lenders continue to be a strategic focus area," said Dan Pallone, Vice President of Mortgage REIT and Loan Solutions at SS&C Technologies. "SS&C invests in our proven Precision LM platform to deliver the most advanced loan servicing and reporting platform to support our client's business."

About CoreVestCoreVest is the leading lender to residential real estate investors, nationwide. It offers long-term loans for stabilized rental properties as well as short-term bridge loans, investment credit lines and build for rent programs. With more than $10 billion in loans funded and 100,000 units financed, CoreVest offers attractive rates, rapid timelines and closing certainty. The company works directly with borrowers and brokers. For more information, visit http://www.corevestfinance.com or connect with us on LinkedIn.

About SS&C TechnologiesSS&C is a global provider of services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices around the world. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Additional information about SS&C (Nasdaq: SSNC) is available at http://www.ssctech.com. Follow SS&C on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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Vishal Salvi, chief information security officer & head of cyber security practice at Infosys, discusses the threat of automated hacking, deepfakes and weaponised AI

AI has been deployed in a number of ways by threat actors in recent times.

It is a vexing paradox that while emerging cyber technologies provide valuable benefits, their malicious use in the form of automated hacking, deepfakes, and weaponised artificial intelligence (AI), among others, prove a threat. Along with existing threats such as ransomware, botnets, phishing, and denial of service attacks, they make information security hard to maintain.

It will become even more challenging as more devices and systems get internet-connected, massive amounts of data that needs securing are generated, and newer technologies such as the Internet of Things and 5G gain ground. The democratisation of powerful computing technologies, such as distributed computing and the public cloud, only accentuates the issue.

Indeed, cyber threats can become a major, enduring threat to the world, says the World Economic Forum.

How real the threat is can be gleaned from the formation of the European Unions (EU) law enforcement agency, Europols Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce, facilitating cross-border collaboration to combat cyber crime by 16 EU member countries, as well as the U.S., Canada, and Australia, among others.

A Forrester study said 88% of respondents believe offensive AI is inevitable, with nearly half of them expecting AI-based attacks within the next year. With AI-powered attacks on the horizon, the study notes it will be crucial to use AI as a force multiplier.

Increasing automation, a reality of the modern age, provides advantages such as speed, accuracy, and relief from monotonous tasks. Perversely, it has also sparked off automated hacking or hacking on an industrial scale in the form of multiple and more efficient attempts that can cause massive financial losses and destroy the organisational reputation. They are completely automated, from reconnaissance to attack orchestration, and speedily executed, leaving little time for organisations to detect them and respond.

Here, publicly available information from websites of businesses and social media is collected quickly using automated open source tools to create convincing profiles for use by hackers as a prelude to attacks.

Organisations are implementing automated tools that reveal exploratory hacking and secure their digital footprint on the cyber landscape. Being proactive, including the use of decoys, counts for almost everything in mitigating and countering automated hacking by the distribution of attacks with different IP addresses and geo-locations. With such tactic, attacks are advanced and sophisticated by leveraging the power of cloud and to hide the real identity of the hackers.

Adam Meyers, senior vice-president of intelligence at CrowdStrike, discusses how organisations can protect themselves from the next wave of cyber adversaries. Read here

A blend of deep learning and fakes, deepfakes are a misuse of machine learning (ML) and AI that use similarities in photos, audio, and video to fabricate synthetic photos, audio, and video to impersonate, threaten, misinform, defame, extort and blackmail. Deepfakes are more convincing than shallowfakes, which started with morphing, but the motives remain the same.

In 2019, a U.K. energy firm was defrauded using an audio deepfake before executives got suspicious and blocked more attempts at fraud. Understandably, organisations may not reveal they were duped, masking the prevalence of deepfakes.

Automated security tools and products incorporating AI, especially in forensic software, can detect and counter them, and along with cyber security protocols and employee education, are common protective measures against deepfakes which, using social media, gain vast reach and immediacy.

Here the use of AI is up against its misuse and one in which the time taken to launch new attacks is very little and the time available to counter them even less.

Weaponised AI self-seeks vulnerabilities in systems and networks. It uses concealed malicious code or intelligent malware to laterally move within the network, executes at specific times, or acquires system knowledge to vary attacks accordingly. It can generate legitimate traffic and create more noise in the systems in an organisations network, self-learn to evade security controls, and resort to AI or ML poisoning to resemble benign behaviour while unleashing malicious code. It can use AI to learn why previous attacks were unsuccessful, and even to evade AI-based monitoring solutions, or discover when networks are most susceptible to attack.

The use of AI to counter cyber attacks lies in modelling and monitoring user behaviour to flag deviations, in automated network monitoring and analysis and the use of AI-enabled solutions for anomaly detection. To counter AI-based attacks organisations need to know how these attacks work, not an easy task given the inadequacy of trained personnel in such techniques, or for that matter, in AI itself.

However, a combination of IT hygiene, recourse to authorisation and authentication and unified visibility and control of digital assets is a good defence against a cyber threat. The use of only necessary network assets and decommissioning the rest so as to expose a minimal digital footprint and continuous network monitoring also help. Clearly, battling against attacks that are gaining in sophistication by using AI means organisations must invest in AI-based solutions and products to detect and frustrate them.

Written by Vishal Salvi, chief information security officer & head of cyber security practice at Infosys

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L&T Technology Services Limited announced a strategic partnership to deliver end-to-end 5G automation services with Mavenir, the Network Software Provider building the future of networks with cloud-native software that runs on any cloud.

The automation services will include Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) automation of the 5G ORAN portfolio of RU/DU/CU products, in conjunction with the Cloud Native 5G NSA and SA core network products, for global frequency bands supporting TDD and FDD technology.

LTTSs heritage in the delivery of telecommunications engineering products and services and growing portfolio of ready-to-use 5G components played a crucial role in this agreement. LTTS will contribute to the acceleration of Mavenirs cloud-native product roadmap driving increased market share in the 5G telecom landscape. This engagement between LTTS and Mavenir also enables a unique opportunity for co-creation and contributes to a joint go-to-market strategy driving innovation in the 5G space towards CSPs and Enterprises.

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The entire landscape of modern-day work is changing as we know it. Not only have we seen workforces going remote as a result of the pandemic, we have also witnessed the technologies that underpin our day-to-day work evolve on a dramatic scale.

One certain type of technology that has been integrated seamlessly into the workplace is automation. Nowadays, its hard to come across a business that doesnt use some kind of automation technology, whether it be an automated HR system or automated spray systems.

Many people believe that automation is something to be afraid of, or in other words, a new kind of next-generation phenomenon that will steal our jobs. However, according to experts, the advantages of automation heavily outweigh the disadvantages. So, lets dive into this subject matter and take an in-depth look at the pros of automation and how its liberating the modern workforce.

There is no denying that a major advantage of automation technologies is that they have the power to boost productivity levels in a workplace, as well as heavily minimizing the risk of error. When a business has a system that effectively takes care of all of its mundane, repetitive activities, this allows employees to think more creatively and simply perform their job in a better way.

Pavel Stepanov is CEO of Virtudesk, which is a company that has been using automation to refocus during the pandemic. In speaking about how automation has helped his business, he said: We currently use technologies such as Infusionsoft, Sprout Social, Podium, and more. However, we are growing rapidly in 2021, so we are onboarding a more robust automation system in order to increase the efficiency of our workforce, and help them spend more time on revenue-generating activities.

Throughout the past year, companies have had to think of new ways to survive during unprecedented times. In regards to automation, such technologies have been extremely helpful when it comes to businesses restructuring their day-to-day operations. As we move closer out of this pandemic, experts are highlighting the need for businesses to integrate automation technologies into their long-term business plans.

Mr Stepanov said: We will see in a post-pandemic world that businesses will have to use automation technology if they want to scale and grow. If they dont, further growth will be impeded as owners scratch their heads as to why their company can never reach greater milestones."

Depending on your budget, you can invest in automation systems that will enable you to identify under-used (or unused) resources. This will allow you to repurpose the materials that you just dont need anymore. As well as this, a BPA (business process automation) system will highlight the visibility of your already existing business assets. This enables businesses to make better decisions down the line, as you have an idea of the things you have (or will need) to grow your company.

Another huge advantage of digital automated systems is that they give us a reason to ditch those files and paper documents. Due to everything being digitized, this allows businesses to keep a track record of company assets - all of which can be easily accessed by the click of a button. Whats more, eliminating the use of paper also massively helps the environment!

There is also no denying that automation technologies enable businesses to perform better customer service. With BPA software, products can be made available to customers in an efficient and timely fashion. As well as this, there is no compromise on the quality of the products because the software will perform the same job every time.

Another example of innovation in business automation is the rising use of chatbots. This type of technology increases the reputability of a company and amplifies the consumer experience, as we see AI resolving customer cases quickly.

Nowadays, businesses can get heavily penalized for not staying compliant with industry regulations. BPA software will ensure that businesses remain compliant at all times. How it works is that every time an automated process is run, this records the task performers name and the relevant details associated with the said task. When it comes to having a track record of data to prove compliance, these logs are highly useful.

Finally, one may think that investing in automation systems would be very costly for businesses. However, in the long run, they help to reduce operational costs. This is because companies have the option to increase their in-house operations without having to expand their actual workforce. Likewise, businesses wont have to cut payroll costs either.

In addressing this, Mr Stepanov added: "Not only can automation dramatically cut down on costs, but it can also allow the organizations people to focus on revenue-generating activities such as spending time with leads or customers, expanding into new markets, exploring new channels, and more. This will reduce employees time spent on repetitive tasks that are essential, but dont contribute to growth.

In conclusion, it seems that automation technologies very much enable the workforce to feel liberated and it also looks like they are here to stay. However, not only will they simply continue to exist, but it looks like they will also serve a beneficial purpose for the workforce of tomorrow.

In speaking about how the world will continue to use automation technologies after the pandemic, Mr Stepanov said:

"Automation technology can strengthen businesses in a post-pandemic world. What 2020 has shown us is that we are relying heavily on technology. At the start of the pandemic, businesses were forced to transition not only their entire workforce online, but consumers more broadly embraced the online business world,"

Because the volume of activity has gone dramatically up, automation technology is more important than ever to keep up with consumer activity, and run businesses efficiently.

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Tom Henriksson, general partner at OpenOcean, discusses how enterprise automation has gone from long-term strategy to operational imperative

Collaboration between human and digital workers can prove key in enhancing operations long-term.

Long discussions lauding technologies like artificial intelligence and robotic process automation are familiar to many executives. The problem is what comes (or doesnt come) next. For much of the last decade, talk of AI and RPA hasnt always made it beyond the boardroom, with the industry filled with a mixture of pioneers and organisations still struggling to create workable enterprise automation processes and solutions.

Then came the pandemic. The arrival of COVID-19 shifted business thinking about automation almost overnight. Remote working meant that technology adoption was something businesses could ill afford to prevaricate on. Automation found its moment during this period. Businesses accelerated plans to automate a range of areas, such as introducing RPA to streamline back-office administration or using advanced conversational AI bots to address customer needs whilst they were stuck at home during lockdown.

This shift from long-term strategy to operational imperative has encouraged the C-Suite to significantly increase budgets in this area. Transformation plans that many insiders viewed as half a decade away, or more, arrived in less than a year. Indeed, a recent survey from Deloitte found that 73% of organisations worldwide are now using automation technologies up from 58% in 2019.

It would be misleading, however, to suggest that all firms have managed to deliver on the renewed promise of enterprise automation during this period. Some have struggled with outsourcing operations abroad, creating difficulties in managing the web of COVID-19 regulations and other complexities that emerged.

Others have been forced to limit budgets to manage the disruption created by the pandemic. This has led Guy Kirkwood, chief evangelist of end-to-end automation leader UiPath, to predict a dangerous bifurcation between the haves and have nots. Failure to automate leaves companies risking missing out on the efficiencies and high-value insights delivered by this technology, and ultimately left at a major disadvantage compared to their competitors.

Monica Spigner, executive vice-president of business transformation at Teleperformance, discusses the expanding applications of Robotic Process Automation in businesses since the pandemic took hold, and provides guidance on successful implementation of the technology post-Covid. Read here

To drive sustainable change, organisations need to take a large-scale, end-to-end strategic approach to implementing enterprise automation solutions. On one level, this is a vital step to avoid any future architecture problems. Businesses need to spend time assessing their technology needs and scoping out how technology can deliver value to their organisation.

Take, for example, low code options like Drag and Drop tools. This in vogue technology is viewed by companies as an attractive, low-cost option to create intuitive interfaces for internal apps that gather employee data as part of a broad automation architecture. The issue is lots of firms rush the process, failing to account for functionality problems that regularly occur when integrating into existing, often disparate systems. It is here where strategic planning comes into its own, ensuring firms take the time to get the UX to the high standard required, as well as identify how to deploy analytics or automation orchestration solutions to bridge these gaps, and successfully deliver automation.

With this strategic mindset, there is a huge opportunity for businesses to use this thriving market for automation to empower more innovation from within the enterprise. Lets be clear, this is not about giving employees unchecked opportunities to create and administer solutions that opens the door to problems like miscommunication, process confusion, and even data corruption.

The key is to create robust governance structures to ensure employees can safely start innovating and rethinking how automation can deliver value to the organisation. Firms who have followed this model have reported recently on the growth in holistic process mining analytics, helping drive new opportunities for automation.

Coca-Cola Icecek is a great example of a company putting these principles into action, encouraging employees to create their own automation solutions all within a clear governance framework. You only have to look at the strong pipeline of cutting-edge automation solutions produced by the company, like a recently implemented order management process using RPA, to see the value of this culture in action.

This article will explore the notion of scaling and operating robotic process automation (RPA) using an integrated automation platform. Read here

The arrival of increased automation is not a simple process. The World Economic Forum predicts that AI will create 97 million new jobs by 2025, versus 85 million losses. Many will feel anxious and even hostility towards the transition to a new way of working and living.

It is incumbent on businesses, therefore, to take a people-first approach to automation. Firms need to pay close attention to the technology capabilities and needs of their employees. This will help closely match automation solutions to internal processes and identify any internal skills deficits that need to be addressed.

In the end, organisations can be huge enablers of change. Placing upskilling employees as a fundamental pillar of digital transformation will be invaluable in challenging misperceptions about automation and AI, helping build a workforce ready to make the most of their new digital co-workers, and ultimately make this exciting new technological age a reality.

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BOSTON, June 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Mabl, the leading intelligent test automation solution for high velocity software development teams, today announced the findings of their third annual State of Testing in DevOps Survey. The survey collected responses from over 600 quality assurance and software development professionals from around the world to discover how the pandemic impacted DevOps and CI/CD adoption, development speed, and quality practices.

"The 2021 Testing in DevOps Survey showed that 2020 shifted the definition of DevOps adoption and maturity," says mabl co-founder Dan Belcher. "Rather than simply focusing on accelerating development cycles, teams broadened their focus to improving quality practices and expanding automation throughout the development pipeline."

The report reveals that quality engineering plays an integral role in DevOps as more organizations adopt and mature their Agile practice. While deployment frequency remained relatively consistent compared to last year, 31% of fully automated DevOps teams described their customer happiness as amazing compared to 7% of DevOps aspiring teams.

"Contrary to popular belief, the difference between fully automated DevOps teams and aspiring DevOps teams wasn't deployment speed: it was quality," observes mabl co-founder Izzy Azeri. "QA - more specifically test automation - is playing a critical role in DevOps maturity, which we see reflected by the fact that fully DevOps teams are twice as likely to be completely confident in their code releases than those early in the adoption process."

Over 50% of fully DevOps teams say they have a culture of quality, where testing is performed early and often in the development cycle. One-in-three DevOps practitioners also report that testing is a team sport that involves everyone. Those mature testing practices result in lower stress for the entire development organization: DevOps teams were twice as likely to catch bugs early in the development process compared to DevOps aspirants.

The impact of a culture of quality with the help of test automation in DevOps can be seen in how survey respondents viewed collaboration between development and quality teams, how quickly organizations are able to address defects, and the confidence they had in their products. The full report can be downloaded here.

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Mabl is the intelligent test automation company that empowers high-velocity software development teams to integrate automated end-to-end testing into the entire development lifecycle. Mabl users benefit from a unified platform for easily creating, executing, and maintaining reliable tests that result in faster delivery of high quality applications. That's why customer-centric brands like Splunk, NCR, jetBlue, Dollar Shave Club, Charles Schwab and many other enterprises rely on mabl for testing their business critical apps.

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BOSTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / June 30, 2021 /MassRobotics, whose mission is to help create and scale the next generation of successful robotics and connected devices companies by providing entrepreneurs and innovative robotics/automation startups with the workspace and resources they need to develop, prototype, test and commercialize their products and solutions, announced it has launched a new partnership with Procter & Gamble (P&G) to collaboratively explore technologies around automation and manufacturing-related applications.

The goal of the partnership is to develop ideas to improve productivity, drive increased value for consumers, accelerate agility from more automation, and allow more flexibility in meeting the manufacturing deadlines of customers. In addition to exploring and accessing innovations from resident startups, MassRobotics' overall community will help P&G remain on the cutting-edge of the robotics and automation industry and more closely collaborate with existing P&G robotics partners in Massachusetts.

"It's always thrilling to see MassRobotics' partners and residents work together to explore the edge of the robotics innovation," said Fady Saad, cofounder & vice president of strategic partnerships, MassRobotics. "P&G offers inroads and intelligence to help our startups bring new thinking to automation and AI for manufacturing. We believe this mutual exploration of technology can benefit the entire automation category."

"We're excited to be a member of this critical ecosystem to collaborate on the direction and offerings of MassRobotics' residents and partners," said Jay Joyner, director of robotics and automation, P&G. "This will help us as we identify breakthrough innovation with robotics and automation technologies more quickly. This accelerates our ability to deploy innovative new technologies to our manufacturing sites."

About MassRoboticsMassRobotics is the result of the collective work of a global group of engineers, rocket scientists and entrepreneurs with a shared vision to create a strong, vibrant robotics and IoT ecosystem. MassRobotics' mission is to help create and scale the next generation of successful robotics and connected devices companies by providing entrepreneurs and innovative robotics/automation startups with the workspace and resources they need to develop, prototype, test and commercialize their products and solutions. See massrobotics.org for details.

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Automation has become a top priority for IT teams across the globe, according to a new report from IT and security management solutions provider Kaseya.

Polling nearly 1,000 IT professionals for the report, Kaseya found that automation is one of the three major projects organizations are focused on, along with bolstering security and improving operational agility.

Half of respondents rated IT process automation through endpoint management solutions as important, while another 47 percent described the ability to run automation scripts through their IT documentation tools as critical.

The solutions may be clearly visible, but that doesnt mean implementation will be seamless. In fact, most organizations are faced with three key challenges: cybersecurity and data protection, lack of IT budget and resources, and issues with legacy systems.

While compliance and legacy systems may be harder to overcome, the study found that almost half will allocate funds for automation in 2021.

As for cybersecurity and data protection, not understanding the dynamics of the relationship with SaaS providers is a major issue. Almost two-thirds (60 percent) of respondents said they believed their SaaS providers were solely responsible for data protection. In reality, the SaaS customer is typically responsible for providing redundancy in the event of system error or ransomware attack.

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