{"id":24188,"date":"2016-07-29T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3876465"},"modified":"2016-07-29T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T17:00:00","slug":"the-question-to-ask-before-automating-your-workflow-cloudexpo-api-paas-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-question-to-ask-before-automating-your-workflow-cloudexpo-api-paas-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"The Question to Ask Before Automating Your Workflow | @CloudExpo #API #PaaS #Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having automated workflows sounds like a sexy thing. And it is. It feels pretty awesome to be able to initiate a process with a button and forget about it while the work gets done.<br \/>\nBut that doesn\u2019t mean you have to automate every process in your office. I mean, I think people can take care of replacing the copy paper on their own, right? Right? Come on, people.<br \/>\nBecause automation shouldn\u2019t be blatantly applied to every corner of your business, it\u2019s good to start with a very basic question before you begin.<br \/>\nWhy?<br \/>\nThere are a lot of ways to improve your business \u2013 why are you looking to automation? What do you hope to get out of it?<br \/>\nHere are some good and bad reasons companies automate their processes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3876465\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having automated workflows sounds like a sexy thing. And it is. It feels pretty awesome to be able to initiate a process with a button and forget about it while the work gets done.<br \/>\nBut that doesn&rsquo;t mean you have to automate every process in your office. I mean, I think people can take care of replacing the copy paper on their own, right? Right? Come on, people.<br \/>\nBecause automation shouldn&rsquo;t be blatantly applied to every corner of your business, it&rsquo;s good to start with a very basic question before you begin.<br \/>\nWhy?<br \/>\nThere are a lot of ways to improve your business &ndash; why are you looking to automation? What do you hope to get out of it?<br \/>\nHere are some good and bad reasons companies automate their processes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3876465\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27391,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24188\/revisions\/27391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}