Review what's new in CoE Manager v.37 release.

What's new

Industry-based automation recommendations and benchmarking

A new feature has been introduced to recommend business process automation opportunities based on your industry, sub-industry, region, and average annual revenue. By leveraging industry benchmark data from APQC, this feature provides a clear view of how your automation program compares with peers in similar sectors.

If you have CoE Manager base license, you can receive benchmarks for high-level business functions, while with a CoE Manager Plus license, you can gain deeper insights with business process-level drill-downs and forecast models across various growth scenarios. This allows you to identify high-impact areas for automation, track progress visually, and make informed, data-driven decisions to optimize your automation strategy and maximize savings potential.

New prioritization chart in the In-Progress stage

A new prioritization chart is introduced in the In-Progress stage to help prioritize opportunities awaiting approval for deployment. This chart provides a visual representation to rank and prioritize opportunities effectively. The x-axis measures the value of an opportunity based on business priorities percentage and the y-axis through total costs for building and deploying the automation, and the bubble size depicts the forecasted savings. This enhancement ensures better decision-making and clarity in the In-Progress stage, enabling streamlined progression to the Deployed stage.

Prioritization bubble chart
New trendline chart for monitoring automation health

A new trendline chart is introduced to monitor the overall health of your automation program. The first chart tracks month-over-month realized benefits, providing insights into financial performance by highlighting growth or decline in savings. The second chart displays trends in successful automation executions versus failures, helping assess the operational effectiveness of your automations. Together, these charts provide a clear month-over-month comparison, allowing you to quickly identify whether savings are consistent or growing, and whether execution success rates are improving or stable. A good automation program should show either a stable or upward trend. Any decline in trends indicates underlying issues that need attention. This operational view supports data-driven decisions to maintain a healthy and effective automation environment.

What's changed

Enhanced additional benefits and costs calculations

The calculations for additional costs and non-automation benefits (formerly known as additional benefits) have been enhanced to provide greater granularity in benefit realization tracking. Users can now configure both additional costs and non-automation benefits as either yearly or monthly values. These amounts are automatically converted to daily values (monthly divided by 30, yearly divided by 365) and incorporated into the daily net benefit realized for each opportunity.

With this enhancement, benefit tracking is more precise and accurate. Additional costs are subtracted and non-automation benefits are added to the daily net benefit, offering a clearer and more detailed understanding of opportunity-level benefit calculations.

Feature deprecation

Presentation page deprecated

Presentation page is discontinued and will no longer be available from Automation 360Automation 360 v.37. See Completed feature deprecations.
Applications option deprecated

The Applications option in the Admin-Program and the Opportunity page is discontinued and will no longer be available from Automation 360 v.37. See Completed feature deprecations.