To keep ahead of the curve, many companies are rebuilding their IT landscape. Rebuilding an IT landscape is not a simple task. Most companies cannot start with a fresh landscape like a start-up would, as they have to deal with their already existing (legacy) systems. It is impossible to rebuild everything at once as businesses have to deal with business continuity, resources and budgets.

Therefore rebuilding your IT landscape must be done step by step, without compromises to the improvement of current processes. We have experienced that the combination of Low Code and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is the perfect match to accomplish this.

Low Code is a software development approach that enables the delivery of applications faster and with minimal hand-coding. By providing modern user interfaces, and optimized building blocks, developers do not have to repeat easy coding, while still having the possibility to extend the source code for complex logic. Therefore, with the advent of Low Code, rebuilding your IT landscape can be done faster than before, while ensuring high quality.

However, as a new landscape is still not build from one day to the next, RPA can smoothen the digital transformation by temporarily adding business value. RPA does exactly what it says; automate repetitive and rule-based tasks that are usually done by humans. It reduces both time and errors as a robot is faster and works on a predefined set of rules. But more importantly, it gives employees time back to focus on what is really important; e.g. the humans aspects of customer experience.

With the use of RPA the business can first focus on automating processes with direct business value, before focusing on rebuilding the more complex back-end systems. However, our advice is to only use RPA as a temporary solution, as it is not adaptive to changes. Therefore, it is important to have a clear roadmap before you start rebuilding your IT landscape.