Organizations in this step have determined that technology can be a time saver Technology and the web are used to help automate and simplify processes Forms may be available to collect information and other simple tasks may be automated Organizations in this step typically achieve some level of cost and time savings as a result of their efforts
To automate a factory, office, or industrial process means to put in machines which can do the work instead of people. He wanted to use computers to automate the process. + automation auto·ma·tion In the last ten years automation has reduced the work force here by half. to start using computers and machines to do a job, rather than people (automation)