Automation Growth Automate Your Business Processes Easily with these 5 Integrations Tess Boissonneault Sep 24, 2021 8 mins read Apps have changed how we do business, largely for the better. Today, teams and employees across all departments benefit from software tools and web apps that streamline their work tasks, from internal and external communications to marketing and sales campaigns, to customer support requests, and beyond. However, while each individual app is designed to improve a specific business process, many organizations have struggled to implement these different solutions in a unified, cohesive way. According to a 2019 study, for instance, 10% of businesses rely on the use of over 200 apps in their enterprise IT systems, while the average number of apps used in large firms was 129 by the end of 2018. As one can imagine, the sheer volume of different apps used on a day-to-day basis by a single business can become overwhelming and can seem counterintuitive when the end goal is to automate and streamline. Fortunately, there is a way to bring all these helpful tools together. Wrk’s automation solution is designed to integrate various apps into a single, user-friendly workflow. Keep on reading to learn more about 5 broadly used apps that are highly suited for automated integration with Wrk. Google Workspace Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), Google’s versatile software stack for boosting productivity, has over 6 million paying customers and 2 billion users worldwide. With tools like Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Meet, Calendar, and Slides, it is no wonder that the collection of web-based tools has become so immensely popular with businesses of all sizes, who rely on Google Workspace to communicate, host meetings, compile data, collaborate on projects, and more. To further enhance the efficiency of Google Workspace, each of the apps can be integrated with other business systems and workflows using our Wrk Actions. This web app integration enables you to further automate processes like scheduling calls, managing contacts and data, and exporting projects. For example, your teams can save time in their day by integrating Google Workspace with Wrk for meeting scheduling. Our Hybrid Automation solution cross references employee schedules through Google Calendar, finds a suitable slot for all meeting members, sends out an invite via Gmail, and takes care of any necessary follow-ups and reminders. In another corner of Google’s platform, you can integrate Wrk Actions for data management and cleaning. Our solution can review Google Sheets documents, identify and delete duplicate entries, as well as flag and remove non-responsive contacts from sales or customer files. The beauty of Wrk is that our automation integrations with Google Workspace can be fully customized to your needs by simply dragging and dropping different commands and integrations to create a cohesive, automated workflow. HubSpot A software for inbound marketing and sales, HubSpot has become an integral solution for many businesses, helping them to grow their customer bases and increase revenue potential through lead generation and conversion. Despite its comprehensive solution, even HubSpot knows it cannot offer its customers every tool and function they need to automate all of their processes, and recognizes the importance of integrations to this end. As the company says: “by adding an integration, [the customer will] get that added feature or function while continuing to use your software.” Just look at our Lead Nurturing Wrkflow, which combines HubSpot and Google integrations to effectively guide prospective leads through the conversion funnel. As soon as a new lead is added in HubSpot, this Wrkflow reviews and classifies the lead based on preset criteria. From there, a bot triggers a Google search for the lead’s company to find additional information. This data can be used to select a relevant use case for the lead, which Wrk can automatically generate in Google Slides. Finally—based on information from HubSpot—our Wrkflow can create and send a personalized email to the lead with the use case, keeping them engaged and demonstrating your business’ value to them specifically. Of course, this Wrkflow and others can be tailored to your business’ needs. Our HubSpot integrations also enable you to automate lead scoring, schedule social media content, and manage customer support tickets. QuickBooks QuickBooks has transformed accounting processes for millions of small and medium-sized businesses, simplifying several aspects of bookkeeping, like expense tracking, invoice creation, and report generation. Perhaps the biggest benefit of the software is that it centralizes all financial data in a single platform, which facilitates taxes and audits when the time comes. Despite this, QuickBooks still relies largely on human input. For instance, Finance teams are still tasked with time-consuming invoice processing—a recurring responsibility that eats up valuable time and money. On average, a finance employee can process about 5 invoices an hour, with the average cost being about $15 per invoice. By integrating Wrk bots with existing QuickBooks tools, businesses can streamline invoice processes by automatically uploading invoice data to QuickBooks. Additionally, because our automation solution can process multiple invoices at once, Finance teams can save hours, freeing up time to focus on more strategic tasks. Our QuickBooks app integration can also be programmed to automate other tasks, like exporting client notes into CSV or the desired format, generating client invoices, and adding new employees to payroll. Salesforce As a leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform, Salesforce is an effective tool for centralizing customer data for the benefit of marketing, sales, and customer service departments. In other words, Salesforce functions as a vital repository of customer information, consolidating details about prospective and existing clients as well as tracking customer journeys through the conversion funnel. Our app integrations can further automate Salesforce workflows (the platform already leverages AI and automation for tasks like record approval, email alerts, and outbound messaging). For instance, our Sales Data and List Management Wrkflow can help to keep client lists fresh and updated by automatically importing relevant company contacts from LinkedIn into Salesforce. These contacts are also automatically vetted based on pre-set criteria, ensuring that your marketing efforts and sales content are ending up in the right hands. Wrk Actions can also integrate Salesforce with other systems, such as Microsoft Excel, facilitating the exchange and export of data between platforms without the need for manual data entry. Zendesk With over 170,000 customers globally, Zendesk has made a name for itself in customer service by providing a scalable platform for centralizing, organizing, and addressing incoming customer requests and queries. Even with this infrastructure; however, Customer Service teams find it challenging to respond to their inundated inboxes in a timeframe that meets customer expectations. To put it into perspective, 88% of customers that reach out for customer support expect a response within an hour. For most companies, customer ticket response times are significantly longer, averaging out at just over 7 hours. Our automation app integrations can enable Customer Support teams to shrink and even eliminate this gap. Wrk’s Ticket Resolution Wrkflow integrates with Zendesk to analyze past resolved tickets and annotate them using natural language processing (NLP) tools. From there, the Wrkflow exports the annotated data gleaned from customer ticket resolutions to train chatbots, enabling them to better respond to recurring customer queries without any help from customer service agents. Other Wrkflows, including Ticket Routing and Escalation, also integrate with Zendesk to resolve customer issues more efficiently, flagging critical messages and routing them to the right department based on certain criteria. This Wrkflow can also integrate with the ServiceNow knowledge base to find solutions to customer support problems. Finally, Wrk can help to further big picture customer support strategies: simply integrate Generate Wrk Actions with Zendesk to create valuable customer insight reports that will enhance your business’ customer relationships based on their feedback. Bringing it all together You might be wondering whether Wrk’s automation solution would just be another tool to add to the growing collection of workplace productivity apps. That’s understandable. But it’s perhaps more accurate to think of Wrk as a link that connects and underscores existing apps, as well as provides additional functionalities to them. Thanks to our integrations with the 5 aforementioned apps (and many, many more) and our unique Hybrid Automation solution, we can help you to establish more unified and highly automated workflows across virtually all departments. In other words, app integrations play a key role in harmonizing various workplace apps, enabling them to connect and communicate with each other to efficiently complete all kinds of tasks. In the app integration market, our Hybrid Automation solution stands out for its distinctly human element. That is, our solution combines RPA, APIs, and proprietary bots with a human workforce element, enabling us to automate and tackle more complex tasks and processes than traditional automated app integrations. Learn more about our unique Hybrid Automation solution and explore our various app integrations. For a more hands-on introduction to our platform, book a demo. Featured image: Canva Share This Article Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email