Skyvia has announced the successful completion of the beta phase and the official release of the Automation product. This tool is designed to automate workflows and processes, helping organizations save time and resources while driving increased business efficiency. The new functionality enables users to build event-driven automation workflows, seamlessly integrating data from multiple sources without the need for technical expertise.
As a comprehensive solution in the data integration market, Skyvia provides a wide range of tools for data integration, backup, management, connectivity, and now automation.
Skyvia’s Automation empowers businesses to design automated workflows with over 190 apps and systems - all without writing a single line of code. With its intuitive drag-and-drop interface and flexible query options, users can implement custom logic based on specific conditions.
Oleksandr Khirnyi, Chief Product Officer at Skyvia said: “The launch of the Automation product represents a significant advancement in our mission to optimize data-related processes and help businesses achieve greater results with minimal effort. With a user-friendly visual designer, intuitive logic creation, and automatic error detection, we empower organizations to automate complex operations while reducing manual involvement.”
Key benefits of the automation product Skyvia
- Extensive App Connectivity: With access to over 190 connectors, Skyvia enables seamless integration across a wide range of applications, allowing businesses to automate workflows between their most essential tools.
- Cost Savings: By automating repetitive tasks, businesses can better allocate resources and reduce operational costs.
- Increased Productivity: Automated workflows free up teams to focus on high-value activities that drive business growth.
- Improved Accuracy and Consistency: Automated processes minimize the risk of human error and ensure tasks are performed consistently every time. By relying on automation, businesses can maintain high accuracy across workflows, reducing mistakes and improving overall data quality.
Industry insights, such as those from Gartner, highlight the growing importance of automation in business operations. Gartner reports that automation becomes essential for improving operational efficiency and enabling data-driven decision-making. Automation tools are expected to see significant growth in implementation, with Gartner predicting that 70% of organizations will adopt infrastructure automation by 2025. Skyvia’s Automation is set to reshape how organizations handle their workflows across multiple data sources.
Skyvia unveils how newly released automation product boosts business efficiency
Here are some common workflows that can be automated with Skyvia:
- Payment transaction data is sent to bookkeeping software once a new purchase is completed on the e-commerce platform.
- When a customer record is updated in a CRM, the information is updated across other systems containing details about the same customer.
- If a website visitor adds items to a shopping cart but does not make a purchase within the last 24 hours, a reminder message is sent to the user’s email address.
- An email is sent to customers celebrating an anniversary with the company or a birthday on a specific day.
- Daily purchases from the website are collected and sent to Google Sheets.
The automation flow begins with a trigger, followed by a set of actions performed under certain conditions, and concludes with a Stop.
The following are the building blocks used to construct automation:
- A trigger can be manual, scheduled, or event-based.
- An action is what executes the automation, performing operations on data from the selected connection. Skyvia supports over 180 connectors, including popular tools and services, cloud apps, databases, and data warehouses, each with its own list of available actions.
- Other components, such as blocks, specify conditions for executing the automated actions.
- Stop indicates the end of the automation process.
It is evident that automating workflows with Skyvia is straightforward due to:
- The drag-and-drop designer.
- Web-based access without the need for additional software installation.
- Over 180 connectors for popular sources and services.
- A free version that allows for two active automation processes daily or a paid plan starting at $99 per month.
Like any process within an organization, data automation requires a deliberate plan. Here are some tips for developing a data automation strategy:
- Data prioritization: Conduct an audit of workflows across different departments. Based on the collected information, determine which manual tasks should be automated first.
- Data pipeline prototype creation: Gather details about the business process and consider how it could be automated. Create a prototype model for a data pipeline that represents a gradual process view.
- Selecting a data automation tool: Review the available data automation tools and their features. Based on this overview, identify which tool best suits the organization's needs.
- Operation execution: Utilize the selected data automation tool to design workflow automation scenarios. Specify the data source, the data collection method, preprocessing operations (filtering, cleansing, transformation, etc.), and the destination tool.
- Monitoring: Track the progress of the designed pipeline’s data automation execution. Review the logs in case of any errors and make necessary adjustments.