Collaboration and Integration that breaks down the silos that arise between teams, departments and offices in any organization
Differences in job functions and how work is done are a huge reason why different teams use different systems. An HR department will not flourish using a customer relationship management tool to manage employees, and an IT and Information Security team will not be satisfied using an accounting package to track security risks and compliance needs.
The right tool is needed. But the integrations between those tools is often non-existent, or consists of files downloaded onto a workstation and manually uploaded into a different software package. Despite the promise of automation that comes from software improvements and artificial intelligence, and a very real market necessity to decrease costs and time spent to remain competitive, this gulf between applications and teams prevents that automation becoming a reality. Workflows and standard operating procedures suffer from gaps in integration, resulting in manual steps that are costly and prone to error and delays.
FormKiQ is designed to provide the missing integration, unlocking the potential of exponential growth in process and workflow automation.
Here are five common silos that build up, and how FormKiQ tears them down in order to improve company-wide coordination and productivity:
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Information Silos
Teams are not able to share information, i.e., documents and their metadata, as effectively as needed. This could be due to differences in software tools, office locations or timezones, or even just from not having enough time to even remember to share a crucial piece of information with another team.
FormKiQ enables enterprise content management solutions to ensure that information is shared through automated workflows and procedures, rather than relying on teams to carve out time and focus to share the critical items with everyone who needs it.
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Communication Silos
As with information not being shared, communication outside of actual documents and metadata is also affected by silos between teams and departments.
FormKiQ enables real-time notifications via Amazon Simple Notification Service and Amazon Simple Email Service to prevent communication gaps from appearing. In addition, metrics and analyics data can be compiled and shared from FormKiQ and its integrated systems and services, allowing visual communication to be just as effective and automatic as written messages.
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Technology Silos
Even when a thorough attempt is made to ensure that information and communication is shared consistently across teams and departments, technology limitations often stand in the way. This could be from two software packages that cannot communicate with each other, or network infrastructure that is slow or unreliable between geographic regions.
FormKiQ uses AWS best-in-class infrastructure and services, along with a RESTful API, a Command Line Interface, and Web Console built according to best practices following the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
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Culture Silos
Different teams have different goals and ways of working, and these differences can have an adverse effect on overall productivity.
FormKiQ combines automation of process with flexibility and customization to enable the right balance of team independence and cross-team consistency needed for everyone to work toward the same high-level goals.
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Collaboration Silos
While some collaboration is provided by software shared company-wide, such as online document clouds or wikis, other forms of collaboration are locked within team- or department-specific tooling.
FormKiQ leverages near-limitless integration between applications and systems to ensure that collaboration can be performed within teams and departments while not being inaccessible to the rest of the organization.
FormKiQ was specifically created to break down silos, empowering organizations to grow with new processes and technologies without imposing any restrictions on that growth.
Contact us to discuss how FormKiQ can break down silos in your organization.