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This article was previously published by Raconteur. Unmanageable workloads often have a knock-on effect on the customer experience (CX), and businesses can no longer afford to get this wrong. The expectation of an always-on experience and increasingly saturated markets can mean a poor experience will send customers elsewhere. And yet, many businesses are struggling to deliver the great customer experience that is demanded.

It made it into our IT Operations Glossary for 2021 blog last month but got rejected by Wikipedia. Gartner included it in its Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2020 list and business process management software vendor Appian published a book about it. We’re talking about hyperautomation. Wikipedia’s reservations aside, hyperautomation is a technology trend that’s moving beyond the business process management (BPM) world and into IT operations.

Last year, businesses started focusing more on accelerating digital transformation initiatives to meet growing customer expectations and deliver consistent digital experiences from anywhere—no matter the product, service, or industry. PagerDuty partners with thousands of organizations to help reimagine digital operations and deliver real-time, digital experiences to their customers when it matters most.

We’re excited to announce a new set of updates and enhancements to the PagerDuty platform! These updates are designed to help organizations accelerate cloud migration, provide premium levels of customer service, streamline collaboration and communication, and deliver a seamless customer experience in the moments that matter most.

IT operations departments in larger enterprises often use 10-15 monitoring tools across different teams to track the health and availability of their core business services. Rather than helping ITOps teams gain a comprehensive view of their infrastructure, an overload of monitoring tools tends to only compound organizational silos and limit insights for incident troubleshooting. Yes, there is too much of a good thing.

Burnout in the workplace can tarnish careers and negatively impact work-life balance. And as our work environment becomes increasingly more remote, people are starting to re-examine the modern problems of burnout at work.

As noted in this blog a couple of weeks ago, we recently commissioned IDC to interview PagerDuty customers to quantify the business value they gain from our platform. It found that, on average, the 14 PagerDuty customers interviewed gained annual benefits of $3.48 million, a three-year ROI of 795%, and a payback period of just over two months.

“Engineering” and “creativity” aren’t often considered synonymous. However, in today’s world, where the online experience is at the forefront of virtually all business transactions and experiences, the creative engineer is finally getting the recognition they deserve. These individuals are quite literally building the virtual world we live in.

Many IT vendors claim to provide value and help organizations strengthen their digital operations, but we wanted to go a step further and quantify our true business value. We recently commissioned a study1 with leading analyst firm IDC to capture and measure what kinds of results our customers are able to achieve by using our platform.

It’s been almost a year since the world changed overnight and industries across the world quickly adapted to living, working, and learning fully virtually. While the world seemed to stop in an instant, many businesses saw an increase in demand and new challenges. PagerDuty was no different.