Best Business Process Automation Tools

Planview AdaptiveWork is a project and portfolio management product for organizations managing complex execution across multiple portfolios and delivery models. It supports IT PPM, Professional Services Automation, Product Development and R&D, and business project and program management use cases, with Planview Anvi available as an embedded AI add-on for insights and automation. Governed Workflow Automation -Low-code workflow automation for any step in the portfolio and project management process -Changes ripple automatically across hundreds or thousands of projects -Admins create and manage workflow changes without code -Waterfall, agile, stage-gate, and hybrid delivery supported in one governed system Resource and Capacity Planning -Time-phased planning and allocation across thousands of resources by month, quarter, or year -Planning horizon extends years forward and back without restructuring the system -Supports employees, contractors, equipment, and other non-labor resources Financial and Portfolio Reporting -Bidirectional reporting: top-down portfolio to project, and bottom-up project to portfolio -Time-phased financial planning, forecasting, and tracking, including when funds are committed or earned -Role-based and executive-ready reporting dashboards -Native data export on any data object, including custom fields, for ALM, PLM, ERP, and BI systems Extensible Data Model -Every standard object, custom field, and custom object automatically generates API endpoints -Custom objects support hundreds of configurable fields, each API-enabled by design -Data model can be extended without breaking integrations or requiring middleware Embedded AI with Planview Anvi -Natural language questions answered about any project, program, or portfolio using live data -Scheduled agents automate recurring status reports on a defined schedule -Risk identification agent surfaces risks at project initiation from scope, timeline, and resource profile -Work plan agent surfaces recommendations based on delivery patterns across the organization -Sentiment analysis across project text fields and an in-app text assistant for tone, grammar, and translation -Customer data is not used to train AI models AdaptiveWork is designed for upper mid-market to large organizations, including departments within larger enterprises, that need governance and reporting to scale without adding administrative overhead.

JAMS is a comprehensive business process automation platform that digitizes workflows, orchestrates cross-departmental operations, and accelerates business outcomes across your organization. By connecting people, applications, and data, JAMS transforms manual, error-prone processes into streamlined automated workflows that improve efficiency, ensure compliance, and enhance customer experience. JAMS bridges the gap between business objectives and IT execution, delivering measurable ROI through accelerated processes, reduced operational costs, improved accuracy, and enhanced business agility in an increasingly competitive marketplace.

Pipefy is the AI-enhanced business process automation platform that conserves IT resources and empowers business teams to build and deploy up to 85% of their own workflows, including HR, IT, Finance, Marketing, Sales, and more. Easily build, track, automate, and manage any custom workflow, no matter how complex, with no technical knowledge required. Pipefy’s no-code BPA software delivers an integrated end-to-end operation that improves team productivity, control, and visibility from input to delivery. Speed up deployment, lower implementation costs, and minimize process complexity and expensive stack sprawl with a built-in security suite, connections to 300+ apps and systems out of the box, and HTTP/HTTPS to integrate Pipefy with everything else.