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No-Code, No Problem: Upper Hutt City Council Embraces Flowingly’s Streamlined Automation
From Rates to Organisation-Wide: Upper Hutt City Council Expands Flowingly Usage Upper Hutt City Council has announced plans to expand its use of Flowingly, a cloud-based software that streamlines...
6 Things to Consider When Choosing an Automation Solution
With so many process automation solutions, it can be hard to know where to start. That’s why we thought we’d put together a list of a few key considerations businesses should have when weighing up...
Flowingly Product Update – April 2023
NEW - Confidential Workflows We're excited to announce the release of a much-anticipated new feature called confidential workflows! We understand that the privacy and security of the data and IP...
4 Signs Your Organization Needs Business Process Automation
It's easy to miss the signs that your business is suffering from process issues. Most of the time, you don't know you have a problem until someone points it out. Maybe they've been waiting on an...
How Process Automation Reduces Admin Work
Before Steph, Digital Improvement Lead at Todd Energy, automated their staff and contractor onboarding process, it would take 6+ hours to complete. Now, it only takes 2, no longer relying on...
Process Optimisation: The Case For Automation First vs. Mapping First
The question of process mapping vs process automation comes up all the time when figuring out how to tackle a business process problem. Do you start with a process mapping project? Does automation...
Making Process Improvement a Priority
The best process improvement initiative is the one that gets done. It’s simple. The best type of process improvement initiative at your company is the one that gets done. Not the major project that...
5 Mistakes to Avoid When Starting with Workflow Automation
1. Don’t attack your biggest process first (even if it’s your most broken) You’re hosting a dinner party. You’ve got a recipe you’ve cooked a thousand times before that you could make with your eyes...
Celebrating Flowingly’s $4.5m Fundraise!
A letter from the CEO Last week we announced that Flowingly had secured an incredible $4.5m in funding, led by GD1 and Icehouse Ventures. While this is great news for us as a business, we’re...
Overview – 2022 R1
We’ve levelled up our public forms. For our first release of 2022 we wanted to focus on improving the public form experience for form builders and users. Since a good form can be the backbone of a...
Process Mapping and Automation – Better Together
A lot of businesses approach us with a single platform requirement. Maybe they’re looking for process mapping software because don’t have clear or well documented processes in place. Or maybe...
Overview – 2021 R5
Just when we thought our developers were done for the year, they pulled a last release out of the bag. And it’s a good one. We wanted to focus on user experience features for this release, getting...
How to Build Successful Workflows
You’ve heard that automating your workflows will give you all sorts of productivity and visibility gains. You’ve decided on your workflow platform and you’re ready to go. But then you ask yourself:...
Overview – 2021 R4
The Only-Relevant-Stuff release For every 200 work emails you receive in the day, 144 of them are irrelevant 🤯 Given that we spend 2.5 hours on average on emails every day, that’s a whole lot of...
Favorite Recipes – 2021 R2
With Flowingly integrations giving you access to endless options in your tech stack, we asked our team to narrow it down to some of their favorite recipes.Microsoft Teams – Sending a company update...
Release Notes – 2021 R2
Introducing Flowingly Integrations When it comes to reducing time spent on work-about-work, connecting your favorite tools is a no-brainer. That’s why we’re so excited to announce Flowingly...
The quickest wins of process improvement
Nothing replaces a robust process review and improvement process but unfortunately, we don’t always have the capacity or the buy-in. The best way to build up momentum for a comprehensive process...
The best processes come from within
Empowering your team to own their processes.Business processes are core to competitive advantage. All companies have them, yet very few companies acknowledge or mine them for their true value. So...
35 processes you should be automating now!
Bogged down with manual tasks? There’s a fix for you. Each of these processes can be automated in hours. Without developers. Without code. Automate these and you’ll be humming.PROCESSES FOR...
Release Notes – 2021 R1
With our latest release, Flowingly becomes the ideal solution for organizations looking to get complete visibility over their processes, without hiring a team of SharePoint developers.Process...
The Best Features from 2020
Last year Flowingly focused on a rapid release of new features which had been requested by our customers, so here are a few of the key ones in case you missed them. We are shortly set to release our...
Control Hazards & Risk in the Workplace
Worksafe New Zealand recommends organizations continuously review workplace health and safety by following the Plan-Do-Check-Act framework.The Control Hazards and Risks in the Workplace automated...
Onboard & Induct a New Employee
A quality onboarding experience is the single most important step to getting a new staff member to an operational level quickly. Sadly, this is a process that many organizations only pay lip-service...
Release Notes – 2020 R4
Earlier this year, Flowingly saw us release a raft of Process Mapping upgrades. Well, that wasn’t the only big project we were working on for 2020. With the latest release of Flowingly we’re taking...
How to Foster Continuous Improvement
Continuous improvement identifies opportunities to reduce waste and streamline work. Broadly speaking, it finds opportunities to execute processes more effectively and get more from less. Although...
How to Write Engaging Processes
Have you ever noticed that there are some processes that you can read from end-to-end, while others lose you at the first step?Why does this happen? Well, it’s just like reading a book. Some books...
Assign a New Contractor
When we talk with companies across the construction, engineering and manufacturing industries, the management of contractors and subcontractors is their #1 concern. From contracts to QA to H&S,...
Release Notes – 2020 R2
Our most recent release of Flowingly signifies a huge upgrade to the Process Mapping capabilities of Flowingly. Let’s have a look at some of the highlights:Map UI Interact with Steps directly from...
Process an Invoice
Processing invoices is possibly the most frequent and essential accounts payable process. Including a new supplier setup step helps keep overall complexity down and keep work flowing. Because...
Creating a Vision for Your Process Journey
It is essential to meet evolving market and business requirements. Countless businesses embrace process mapping and automation. A strong plan allows you to make precise course corrections while...
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Energy
Todd Energy are using Flowingly and Power Automate to create a process center of excellence, empowering non-technical teams to help deliver automation at scale.
A Fortune 100 company uses Flowingly to automate 5,000+ process tasks a day for 70,000+ users globally.
Flowingly has enabled rhipe to adopt a line-of-business approach to workflow, allowing the teams to rapidly automate and iterate their business processes without developers.
Local Government
Glenelg's implementation of Flowingly has allowed them to deliver award-nominated employee experiences and a process center of excellence.
Education
NMIT transformed manual processes into automated workflows, delivering significant business benefits and risk reduction.
Kyvalley Dairy are using Flowingly to transform their processes, starting with turning their manual, spreadsheet-heavy Capital Expenditure process into a streamlined, auditable digital experience.