What is toil reduction?
Toil reduction is the process of minimizing repetitive, manual, and operational tasks that do not add long-term value to a system or service.
These tasks are often error-prone, time-consuming, automatable, and scale linearly with service growth.
The concept of toil reduction originates from site reliability engineering (SRE) and is gaining traction among IT teams seeking efficiency and scalability.
Why is toil reduction important?
Toil reduction is key to improving operational efficiency, team productivity, and system reliability.
By identifying and automating high-toil tasks – like data entry, system monitoring, and manual updates – your IT and business teams can focus more on strategic initiatives and innovation.
Toil reduction also supports digital transformation by:
- enhancing business agility
- reducing errors
- making system management more sustainable as workloads grow
In complex multi-interface environments, where integration and maintenance challenges are common, automation helps ensure that your teams aren’t overwhelmed by repetitive tasks – which in turn:
- reduces low-value work
- eases on-call fatigue
- lowers the risk of human error
How can Precisely help with toil reduction?
You can reduce toil using our automation solutions like Automate Evolve and Automate Studio – which includes Fiori app automation – data management and integration tools that simplify repetitive data creation and management tasks.
These tools are especially valuable for business, data, and IT stakeholders focused on scaling business processes, improving data integrity, and ensuring integration success.
Take, for example, data-intensive tasks in SAP. By using a combination of Automate Studio and Data360 Analyze, you gain a repeatable, automated ETL experience tailored for data preparation and transformation.
With seamless Excel integration and an intuitive, rules-based interface, it reduces the need for custom scripting and allows your analysts and business users to support scalable data transformation and cleansing activities as part of ongoing business operations.
Learn more about our SAP Process Automation solutions, and reduce toil in your organization for greater efficiency and system reliability.