Preparing for the Future of Work Through Automation

Burnout has become one of the worst-kept secrets in the IT industry. It has reached epidemic proportions. In IT departments around the world, relentless workloads and repetitive tasks are undermining not only team morale but also overall efficiency. This creeping loss of productivity is something that organisations can no longer ignore, either in the short or long term.

However, this does not have to be the case. According to consulting firm McKinsey, almost half of the tasks performed by employees could be fully or partially automated. In fact, technologies such as AI and automation will change the nature of work and the workplace itself, allowing machines to carry out more tasks performed by humans, complement human work, and even perform tasks beyond what humans can do.

The key question is, are companies realising the true potential of automation? If not, they may be limiting their ability to scale and adapt in today’s fast-moving digital landscape.

Research shows the benefits of automation to be compelling. These major benefits include increased productivity, higher systems availability and reliability, fewer human errors, optimised staff performance, and substantial cost reductions. These benefits alone should be enough to convince you to automate where possible—now.

Of course, the introduction of automation brings with it a number of challenges, and there are different paths companies can take. While challenges are inevitable, solutions like Tanium Automate — an automation and orchestration tool built on the powerful Tanium platform — can streamline the journey.

Designed specifically to make IT teams more effective at scale, Tanium Automate comes with orchestration capabilities that automate complex tasks, executing them in real-time and making them repeatable. It enables workflow automation across IT and security to help you more efficiently manage your IT estate and rapidly respond to incidents—without needlessly overburdening your staff or putting them at risk of burnout.

Critically, Tanium Automate solves the biggest pain points that usually hinder automation initiatives. These major issues include:

• Lack of controls and standardisation. Automation can become risky and unreliable without sufficient controls and standardisation, limiting when and where automation can take place.
• Complexity of connecting workflows. Automation across multiple solutions requires the use of different APIs, data, and protocols; this can lead to complexities, cause errors and system disruptions, and increase automation development time and costs.
• Need for skilled experts. While standalone automation tools work, they often require skilled experts to create, scale, and maintain an automation library—something that many organisations don’t necessarily have right away. Unfortunately, hiring a team of experts for the sole purpose of automation increases the cost of implementation.

Tanium Automate addresses these pain points by simplifying automation, allowing enterprises to automate complex tasks at speed and scale with easy-to-implement, no-code and low-code orchestration and automation. This empowers users to set and perform repeatable actions, from simple tasks to complex ones, regardless of their skill level, thus eliminating the need for skilled experts. What’s more, Tanium Automate gives organisations complete control and governance every step of the way.

Simply put, Tanium Automate makes it much easier for organisations to automate a whole range of tasks and reap the many compelling benefits of automation — including freeing up IT teams and increasing their efficiency and productivity.

It’s time to step into the future of IT and security with automation. Learn how Tanium Automate can transform your organisation by efficiently handling complex IT and security tasks at scale.

Download the Tanium Automate data sheet now to find out more!