Can Micro-automation Earn Profit For Your Business?

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Believe it or not, automation must save you money… period. Everything else is secondary. What we are about to discuss here is a matter of high importance for small business owners. You may have tech savvy employees or not. That doesn’t matter much.



Conceptually any automation that is not saving you money is of no use. There is no in between. The concept of micro automation is that, it enables you to run small and independent software applications to manage, process, control or even do certain jobs for you with high accuracy and save good amount of time. The size of the automation may be comparably small. But the outcome will be beneficial. For example, automating the time and attendance of employees (time and attendance tracker) using a Bio-metric device / Attendance kiosk. It’s quite simple and it saves a huge amount of time, money, etc. and also does the job of watch dog. Quite amazing isn’t it…? 


Similarly, automating small parts of your business operations, especially your pain areas, can fetch you good amount of time, great accuracy and ultimately save money. Depending on big or comprehensive software solutions, it might sometimes be inefficient due to the following reasons:

  • Have different process flow as compared to your method of operations 
  • You’ll have to compromise your operational methods to fit into the software It takes lot of your / team’s time for implementation 
  • Requires quality team to implement and engage 
  • Dependent on various other factors 
  • Costs you much higher price

We are not here to rule out the big advantages that comprehensive software solutions have. But, it is possible that, automating small and independent processes could save you considerable amount of time. Few important advantages of micro-automation is given below:


      1) Simple and easy to build and implement

      2) No compromise on your existing system of procedures

      3) Can implement and engage in short period of time

      4) No big team required for implementation

      5) Low investment and quick ROI


There are some areas that’s worth doing micro-automation which could eventually save you time & money. Few possibilities given below:

  1. Timesheet – employees timesheet for the tasks that they do in their duty hours. This with a good set of analytical reports will show you what and where your employee’s time is going and where you spend more/less time and so on. You could plan where your employee needs to spend more time and where not. You will be surprised to see amazing insights once you introduce timesheet.
  2. Work scheduling: Automating the scheduling of work for a week and assigning to employees / departments will save you considerable amount of time.

There are ‘n’ number of possible areas where you can automate. You need to choose the right critical area that needs a solution/automation. The micro-automation may not be part of any of your existing software, but will definitely enable you to concentrate on your other business priorities like sales, quality, etc. 


To conclude, micro automation could cost you less, easy to implement and engage, get ROI quickly and save time & money day after day.



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