Automation ROI Comparison

Overview

The Automation ROI Comparison template allows you to use data from Automation Hub and Orchestrator to:

• Discover the most impactful automations in terms of ROI.
• Keep track of the soft benefits in the ROI measurement.
• Iterate on the ROI measurement method to make it relevant to your organization.

Note: In order to have data populating the Automation ROI Comparison dashboard, you must first go into Automation Hub and link the Automation Hub ideas to the Orchestrator Packages, as part of the Execution Assessment available in each live idea.

Prerequisites

In addition to the steps needed to enable Insights connection, the following roles and permissions are needed to use Automation ROI Comparison:

• Viewer or Designer and ROI Editor role in Insights
• Packages - View permission at tenant level in Orchestrator

Metrics

Tile	Metrics	Description
Ideas to Automations	Number of live ideas Number of live processes	Number of live Automation Hub ideas that are mapped to one or several Orchestrator packages.
Volumes Automated	Number of volumes automated	Sum of all the pro-rated actual, respectively estimated automated volumes (transactions) for all the ideas which are mapped to Orchestrator packages.
Hours Saved	Time saved using automations (in hours)	Sum of all the pro-rated actual, respectively estimated time savings for all the ideas which are mapped to Orchestrator packages.
Cost Savings	Money saved (in dollars)	Sum of all the pro-rated actual, respectively estimated cost savings for all the ideas which are mapped to Orchestrator packages.
Top 10 Automation Ideas by Actual Hours Saved	Automations with top time-saving results (in hours)	Most impactful automation ideas, by actual hours saved.
Top 10 Automation Ideas by Actual Cost Savings	Automations with top cost-saving results (in dollars)	Most impactful automation ideas, by actual cost savings
Hours Saved by Business Area	Time saved in each business area (in hours)	The pro-rated estimated savings, actual savings, and the gap between the result and the forecast, measured in hours saved, grouped by the Business Area.
Cost Savings by Business Area	Cost saved in each business area (in dollars)	The pro-rated estimated savings, actual savings, and the gap between the result and the forecast, measured in currency, grouped by the Business Area.
Top 5 Automation Ideas by Hours Saved Estimation Precision	Automations with top time-saving results in estimation precision	Automation ideas which have the Pro-rated Estimated benefits in hours saved closest to the Actual Hours Saved, measured as a %.
Top 5 Automation Ideas by Smallest Gap in Hours Saved	Automations with the smallest gap in top time-saving results	Automation ideas which have the Pro-rated Estimated benefits in hours saved closest to the Actual Hours Saved, measured in absolute value.
Savings by Automation Idea	Idea Name Yearly Target Hours Saved Pro-rated Target Hours Saved Actual Hours Saved Gap in Hours Saved Yearly Target Cost Savings Pro-rated Target Cost Savings Actual Cost Savings Gap in Cost Savings	In-depth view of the yearly estimated savings, actual savings, pro-rated estimated savings, and the gap between the result and the forecast.

Customizing Automation Hub Dashboards

You can copy the Automation Hub ROI Comparison template to My Dashboard where you can configure filters and modify or rearrange tiles (see Create dashboard).