For the longest time now, the telecommunications industry is ripe and prepared to witness technological disruptions. However, with increasing competition in the telecom space, newer and more unique challenges emerge in providing innovative services to customers. These challenges are not only at the front end where the business meets the customers but also at the back end where operational efficiencies matter the most.
Next-generation technologies are well positioned to impact the telecommunications industry. One of these technologies is Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in telecom. RPA in the telecom industry will help your telecom company overcome various operational challenges and will provide you with a clear competitive advantage.
Wondering how? Let us take you through what is the impact of RPA in telecom and how your business will never be the same with it.
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What is Robotic Process Automation (RPO)?
RPA is a type of automation technology that uses software ‘robots’ to perform simple, structured, and repetitive business processes such as data entry. When using RPA technology, users create bots and program them to mimic the specific steps that a human employee would take to complete the same task.
Back-office tasks that have been a source of frustration for employees and a source of error and bottleneck for the management for years can now be delegated to these software robots, which will make overall operations extremely streamlined.
Challenge of the Telecom industry, solved by RPA
Clearly, one of the most important priorities for you as a business leader in telecom is to improve efficiency and keep up with customers’ expectations. However, as operations expand and new challenges emerge, and in a conventional environment, it requires more hands and heads (read: employees) to solve those challenges.
Naturally, with your best talent occupied with mundane tasks, it becomes more difficult for you to keep the focus on your customers.
This is where RPA comes in and liberates you as you can do better resource planning once you have the simpler tasks entirely automated.
So, what are the issues plaguing the telecom industry?
1. Improper Information Flow
Customers, salespeople, network providers, and engineers generate a significant amount of data for telecom service providers. All this information must be effectively shared among the various departments spread across the country. Improper information flow can limit your ability to provide a positive customer experience. Service delivery may be delayed, and it may become difficult to track business activities.
2. Poor customer focus
Telecom service providers have a tremendous volume of back-office work to carry out their business. Operations executives must work on a wide range of applications, systems, platforms, and databases always.
Most of these operations have traditionally been human resource intensive. This is simply distracting your workforce from working on customer experience and satisfaction. Such deviations from routines make it difficult to create a positive customer experience.
3. High operating costs for redundant job roles
Business leaders like you who embrace technology have realized that many jobs can be replaced with automation systems and can actually improve operational efficiencies, reduce errors and save on operational costs.
4. Ability to Scale operations
To meet demand, RPA ‘robots’ can be scaled up or down without incurring additional costs. Departmental workflows can be replicated across departments and locations. This allows telecom service providers to scale and respond to market conditions, growth, and temporary fluctuations in demand more effectively.
Summing up – RPA in Telecom Industry
Database management, customer service management, purchase order management, and IT and infrastructure services are all provided by telecom operators. The fact that RPA is extremely adaptable, it can be used across operations and departments. Some tasks, such as repetitive back-office processes, can be completely automated, while others can only be partially automated.
Cost savings and increased efficiency are observed regardless of the level of automation that RPA adds to tasks. However, significant improvements have been observed when RPA is applied to front-office tasks. RPA is indeed improving the customer experience and the telecom industry needs to ride this wave.
How do you get started with automation?
If you are a company and you are interested in automating your business processes but are not sure where to begin, you can always get in touch with our experts and identify the processes that would provide the greatest impact when automated. Those could be simple HR processes, some processes within your finance and accounting team, or simple data management. It’s always good to get started with artificial intelligence (AI) or robotic process automation (RPA) at first and see the level of efficiency these technologies can bring to each of your processes.
Over time, you can even rebuild your service offering to a fully automated delivery model, where you can use a robot for every person and introduce a new form of digital assistance that transforms the way you operate and service your end clients.
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