Decommissioning legacy technology and removing the need for legions of ‘Human APIs’ creates enormous cost-savings.
By removing on-premise legacy technology, you’re saving on software, licences, hardware and maintenance. This all adds up to $millions in savings every year – Duco clients are already achieving this.
Decommissioning on-premise legacy technology
By deploying a data automation platform on the cloud, you make it possible to save on the cost of having on-premise solutions, including:
- Hardware
- IT headcount
- Tech support
- Development time
Those cover the day-to-day costs of on-premise technology, but there are other significant expenses to consider. For instance, licences for these systems usually include mandatory six or twelve-monthly upgrades, because that’s the only way on-premise vendors can deliver innovation, performance improvements and bug fixes to their customers.
These upgrades are expensive and incur other costs as well, because you then have to regression test the upgrade to ensure that it hasn’t broken any existing processes. Often you’re not getting new features, so you’re just paying out to ensure the system you had still does what it was doing in the first place.
Operations headcount: from cost-sink to value-driver
Data automation removes the need for repetitive manual work around data. Many firms have tens of thousands of Operations workers doing this. While reducing headcount is one quick cost-saving measure, many firms are instead looking at how to unlock greater value from these teams.
Your operations workers are the subject matter experts in your data and, given the opportunity, can perform valuable analysis and insight. Instead of cleaning up the mess caused by bad data, they are able to investigate and identify the root cause, putting in place controls to mitigate it at source.
Their analysis of your data can flag performance issues, trends and best practices. All of this strengthens your business and improves performance – a much better use of these workers.
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WHAT IS DATA AUTOMATION? 
OTHER BUSINESS BENEFITS OF DATA AUTOMATION
Operational efficiency
A data automation platform solves the core issue slowing operations functions down: a lack of trust in data. It does this by bringing all mission-critical data together in one place so you can standardise and consolidate processes across the business.
