What Does Automation Mean?
Automation is the creation and application of technologies to produce and deliver goods and services with minimal human intervention. The implementation of automation technologies, techniques and processes improve the efficiency, reliability, and/or speed of many tasks that were previously performed by humans.
Techopedia Explains Automation
In the enterprise, popular approaches to automation include business process automation (BPA) and robotic process automation (RPA). In general, the term BPA is used when talking about how to apply the concept of automation to business processes, while RPA is used when discussing how to automate a specific, repetitive task.
