Enhancing Employee Experience through Automation
Automation. It’s a buzzworthy term for good reason, creating new opportunities for cost savings and process efficiency that can significantly boost the...
Catalytic Blog
Thoughts, insights, and industry tips from Catalytic’s experts.
The Cost of Employee Disengagement
Grace Murray Hopper, a pioneering computer scientist and the United States Navy Rear Admiral, was once quoted saying that “We’ve always done...
COE Brass Tacks
I just read another “whitepaper” on why you need an Automation Center of Excellence. Although I agree with the overall sentiment that...
Intelligent Automation Insights: Sean Chou at the HFS FORA Summit
Sean Chou talks to Steve Dunkerley at the FORA Summit in New York about how the HFS triple A trifecta aligns with...
Upgrading Procurement & Supply Chain with Catalytic Automation
Within large enterprises, procurement and supply chain management are faced with the challenge of containing costs, reducing risk, and achieving better results...
Return on Automation
We are firm believers in pragmatic use of AI and automation. These technologies are not magical pixie dust—they will not instantly transform...
Integrating Systems is Like Crossing a River
A large healthcare customer of ours recently used a fantastic metaphor to describe different methods to connect enterprise systems. Imagine you are...
Salesforce Woes? Boom!
On Wednesday, while on a flight, I was chatting with Ian, one of our awesome product managers, about how I’d love to...
Improving Processes
You’ve done the work to prepare and implement your process so you’re good to go and can let them run for the...
Finding Success Through Partnerships | BMO Harris Bank
Catalytic Client Partner Gigi Freeman discusses partnering with startups to spur innovation.
Managing Process Change Effectively
Change management is a critical component that can ensure a process’ success or its failure when implemented. Using a structured approach to...
Mapping Process Elements
Note: For the purposes of this article we’re going to assume you’re the process owner or that you have organizational approval to...
Stop Overlooking Manual Work: Using intelligent automation to augment people with better task management.
“Meet me where I am.” When using software, minimizing the number of jumps users need to make between systems is essential for...
A Single Gear or The Whole Machine
I have written elsewhere about the Coming Trough of Disillusionment for robotic process automation (RPA). While I don’t believe that the overall...
Automation as a Competitive Advantage
When enterprises discuss process automation, the first line of questioning almost always centers around shared services: HR, finance, legal, etc. The reasoning...
Process Considerations
What to consider when thinking about a process: What is process? On the surface the question is very straightforward: A process is...
Introducing the Catalytic Certification Program
45% of work processes could be automated using existing technology, yet only 17% of global executives are ready to implement bots and...
Humans in the Loop...Ugh!
Humans in the loop. In the automation industry, this phrase is actually a thing. A widely-used and accepted phrase. And it’s so...
Process For Processes
Spreadsheets are great for some things, but collaboration is not one of them. Enter the Catalytic data table: our take on a...
Why Are You Automating That?
We have entered the age of the Bot. All medium and large businesses will do intelligent automation (IA) at scale, it is...
The Coming RPA Trough of Disillusionment
Are you ready for the RPA Trough of Disillusionment? Gartner’s time tested Hype Cycle model predicts that new technologies will go through...
Catalytic has Successfully Completed both SOC 2 and HIPAA Attestation Examinations
We are proud to announce that we have successfully completed our SOC 2 Type 1 and HIPAA attestation examinations! But what does...
Trees -- Meet Forest.
I have met and worked with dozens of companies that hope to use machine learning in a meaningful way to improve their...
Compliance Superpowers!
Learn how the Catalytic team met our compliance goals without slowing down innovation! When we started our compliance journey, we knew we...
Automation: The Right Tool for the Job
“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” – Abraham Maslow - 1966 The Psychology of Science We’ve...
Why the world needs Pushbot.
We have a saying around here at Catalytic. “Let people be people, and machines be machines.” It seems obvious, but, it also...
Automate or You Will Be Obliterated
In 1990 MIT computer science professor Michael Hammer started a revolution in management thinking with his HBR article “Reengineering Work: Don’t Automate,...
Implementing AI in 3 Steps
On a daily basis, we read about the upsurge in artificial intelligence (AI) taking on more complex tasks in the workplace. But...
Defining Goals
Defining the goal. This is, without a doubt, the most important place to start when wanting to create, implement and execute on...