Overview
What is IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation?
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation is a modular set of integrated software components, built for any hybrid cloud, designed to automate work and accelerate business growth. This end-to-end automation platform helps you analyze workflows, design AI-infused apps with low-code tooling, assign tasks to bots and track performance.
With this offering, clients can transform fragmented workflows — achieving 97% straight-through processing — to stay competitive, boost efficiency and reduce operational costs.
Why IBM Cloud Pak® for Business Automation?
Here's what a 2022 commissioned Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ study found after three years.
Return on investment (ROI)
395%
Boost in productivity
Up to 80%
Use cases
Accounts payable

Accounts payable
Validate invoices: Manage the increasing volume of invoices and streamline your validation process with decision automation. Detect errors more quickly to improve accuracy and apply changes as needed to reduce the amount of time to payment.
HR onboarding

HR onboarding
Build and utilize low-code apps: Use automation to manage the onboarding process from application through onboarding. Create and update applications quickly using low-code tools to simplify and update the onboarding process.
Remote work dispatch

Remote work dispatch
Simplify common tasks: Business users can create lightweight workflows without coding to improve productivity and decrease the complexities and limitations of remote work.
Benefits
Automate different types of work
Gain deeper actionable insights
Alleviate skill gaps
Deploy anywhere
Features
Everything you need for process automation
Identify the best candidates for automation and scale your automation initiatives before investments are carried out. Process mining provides an instant picture of your end-to-end processes, detects inefficiencies and identifies hotspots for improvement. Turn insights into actions, calculate the expected outcomes and reach your business goals.
Services
We offer software, services and consulting for almost any cloud. Choose what works for you.
Move forward on your own
Gain a more secure path to the cloud by buying only what you need from this or other IBM Cloud Pak containerized software solutions.
Move forward with some help
Work alongside our experts to assess your portfolio, implement quick agile change, and set the course for your automation future.
Move forward by letting us do it for you
Focus on innovation and keep existing resources in place by letting our IBM Services® experts manage your ongoing automation needs.
Try before you buy
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Explore IBM Cloud Paks for Automation
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Accelerate Your Automation Journey
See how the IBM Business Automation Starter Kit can help you kickstart your automation journey with Process Mining & RPA
Next steps
Learn how to start your hyperautomation journey with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation today.