Market analysis of Low-code systems for business automation

Hey. I work as a system administrator in a regional company. The management lowered the task: to select a system for accounting for supply contracts with contractors. Immersed in, I think that the work done on the analysis of existing solutions on the market is worthy of publication. The text will go to those who, like me, are in search of a low-code system for business tasks.





Main problem

The main problem for us turned out to be the loss of documents, the delay in their signing and the introduction of amendments. The whole process is controlled by the head of the procurement department, as such, accounting exists only in the form of internal tables, invoices and 1C documents, the main communication is to agree on contracts via mail. As a result, the whole process - from the moment the contract was concluded to its approval by the legal department and the payment of accounting - was stretched. In some particularly amusing cases, it was necessary to figure out why the invoice was issued to the company, if the goods had already been paid for in cash.





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Additionally for Creatio:





  • system maturity - Creatio is not a new system, but a renamed BPM Online, as a result: a large number of clients, the system is developing, hence the community of the system, and its complexity





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  • AI tools that allow predicting future field values ​​/ generating a rating using machine learning based on available data





Conclusion

Choose the system for your goals and objectives yourself. It is clear that it is unrealistic to describe all the possibilities in one readable article. I highlighted what was important to me.





Hope helped with the dive :)








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