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How Task Mining Helps

Accelerate Digital
Transformation

 September 17, 2022  7 minute read

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processing and optical character recognition to interpret this data and generate meaningful insights.
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Technology Behind Task Mining

Following are some of the technologies used in task mining:

Optical character recognition (OCR):

Converts typed, handwritten, or printed text into machine-encoded text. It extracts text from images and
helps users conduct text mining, key data, and pattern recognition.

Natural language processing (NLP):

NLP helps computers process and analyze vast sets of natural language data. Within the context of task
mining, it helps categorize data in terms of tasks and activities. It provides a data-driven approach, thus
assisting managers and decision-makers in determining the efficiency of a process.

Machine learning algorithms:

Task mining solutions use machine learning algorithms that work alongside NLP to parse huge volumes
of unstructured data and aggregate the data. This helps managers gain deeper visibility into the
processes, identify bottlenecks and drive end-to-end process excellence.

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Top Five Ways Task Mining Helps Accelerate

Digital Transformation
1. Identify repetitive tasks that can be automated 

By gaining visibility into specific tasks within the processes, organizations can determine improvement
and automation opportunities which can accelerate their business outcomes and even discover avenues
for cost reductions.  Armed with these unparalleled insights at task level, organizations can uncover
blindspots and identify repetitive tasks fit for automation. They can also define best-practice approaches
for a process, thus introducing standardization across the organization.

2. Drives continuous process improvement 

Through automated capabilities to collect desktop-level data, leaders can gain the granular insights they
need to optimize their processes confidently. This ensures that every process-level change is based on
data-driven insights.

3. Provides a path for RPA

In Gartner’s latest CFO survey (https://www.gartner.com/en/finance/insights/finance-digitalization), 80%

of finance leaders stressed the need to significantly accelerate the implementation of RPA and AI to
support the business by 2025 effectively. When implementing RPA, they also see investment in process
mining as the key to unlocking returns.

Task mining helps deliver insights into how a particular process can be automated to drive efficiency and
improve ROI. Based on these insights, organizations can adopt the right RPA tools suited for each task. In
the absence of task mining, many RPA projects may simply fail to take off.

4. Ensuring data security

A less-talked-about but critical use case of task mining is to analyze low-level event data to measure an
organization’s data security credentials. Granular data collection from user devices can help detect
malware, zero-day vulnerabilities, and anomalous behavior resulting from unauthorized third-party
access. CIOs and CISOs can combine insights from task mining and signature-based threat detection
tools to detect and quickly act on off-the-pattern instances and build capabilities to defend against
advanced cybercriminal TTP (tools, techniques, and procedures).

5. Achieve operational resilience

When managers have a clear picture of how their processes and tasks function, they can accelerate their
automation opportunities, and implement process improvements, thus creating a data-based method to
improve operational excellence and resilience. With this granular understanding of how tasks are
performed, managers can benchmark the most efficient approach to work, thus standardizing and
optimizing practice across the organization, leading to improved business outcomes. At the same time,
by automating repetitive tasks, managers can empower users to pivot to value-adding work.

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Experience the Soroco ScoutTM Advantage 

Today, more than 60% of the workday is spent on unstructured interactions in documents, emails,
communications, custom applications, websites – outside of ERP, CRM, and other systems of record.

Organizations can unlock this data source for multiple opportunities such as building a map of how their
teams get work done, including variations in the last mile, and building a data-based digital
transformation program with multiple levers such as automation, targeted user-training, streamlining
unnecessary variations of work.

At Soroco, we have created a new category of enterprise software that relies on this previously untapped
data source — human-computer interactions emanating from daily work. Soroco’s Scout, powered by
the world’s first work graph platform, focuses on enterprise-scale needs serving 1000s of users in each
customer.  With its privacy-aware data collection with zero IT integration, Scout captures millions of
interactions without requiring any changes to your applications. While protecting end-user privacy,
flexible PII filtering, and being aligned to GDPR compliance.

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