Use case type

Business process automation

Automates end-to-end business processes across systems to cut cost and turnaround time.

Use cases

66

Examples

60

Industries

12

Timeline

28 mo

Data updated 1 day ago

Adoption over time

Documented cases per month

By case publish month · completed months only

44 cases documented across 37 months (Jul 23 – Jul 26), peaking at 8 in May 2026.

13 earlier cases before Jul 23 not shown

Each column counts every documented case of this type by its publish month, across the full corpus. The in-progress current month is excluded from columns and surfaced separately, and cases published before the charted window are summarized as earlier cases instead of plotted.

Company examples

Use cases of this type

10 shown from 66 use cases

Regal Rexnord is a global manufacturer that built AI-driven agents to support employees and customers after data and performance issues on other platforms.The company uses Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365/SharePoint, Salesforce, Azure Blob Storage, Azure AI Search, Microsoft Foundry capabilities, Dataverse governance, and Teams/custom Microsoft 365 Copilot agents.The employee agent answers policy questions, the customer agent handles external questions and order status, and service reps have a support agent for faster retrieval of product and process information.

HEINEKEN is a digital innovator with thousands of customized applications and automations built on Power Platform by over 7,500 makers.The company uses Copilot Studio to support both employees and customers with AI-driven agents, including an internal PowerBot and an external FAQ agent for Amstel.HEINEKEN also uses Managed Environments, COE-style governance, Azure AI Search capabilities, Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models, and Microsoft Fabric dashboards to manage and measure its Power Platform estate.

HR tech company Personio built an AI-powered assistant on Amazon Bedrock to automate requests and improve workflows.The assistant is embedded in Personio's product and uses Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases to connect to additional knowledge sources.

Mindflow is a French startup that helps large businesses create, deploy, and manage automation using no-code tools and AI agents.The company automates IT and cybersecurity operations as well as repetitive back-office processes across the enterprise.Mindflow uses Amazon Bedrock and AWS serverless technologies to speed access to large language models and keep the platform model-agnostic.

MindflowOther

State Medicaid Agencies face an urgent deadline to implement community engagement verification systems by January 1, 2027, as mandated by H.R. 1.This solution combines AMPGS Reimagine CX with Amazon Connect and AMPGS Intelligent Document Processing using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Textract to automate beneficiary outreach, document collection, and work-hour verification.

TEKsystems Global ServicesPublic Sector

Heathrow Airport granted its workforce access to Microsoft Office 365 and used Microsoft Power Apps to enable first-line employees to build low-code apps for operational workflows.Employees created apps such as a mobile language book, a vehicle security app, and the Safe Not-Safe App to reduce paperwork and data-entry burden.Heathrow also used Microsoft SharePoint to track app development and held monthly Power Apps super user meetings to collect ideas, share feedback, and support adoption.

Heathrow AirportLogistics

Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office needed to comply with California Penal Code Section 741 (AB 2778) by redacting race, ethnicity, and other identifying information from police reports and case documents before charging decisions.The office worked with ScaleCapacity, an AWS Partner, to build an AI-driven workflow on AWS that extracts and redacts sensitive information from case materials and fits into the existing clerk upload and attorney review process.The solution supports rapid redaction-rule updates and lets attorneys toggle between redacted and unredacted document views to support usability and review.

Contra Costa County District Attorney's OfficePublic Sector

Kingdee International Software Group deployed generative AI features to improve ERP usability and let users retrieve complex data and complete multi-step tasks through natural language.The company built an intelligent ticketing system and an intelligent metrics analysis tool on Amazon Bedrock, integrating agents with Kingdee APIs, knowledge bases, databases, Lambda, API Gateway, and OpenSearch.The system also uses Text2SQL through Bedrock Agents and provides a 24/7 virtual assistant for managers and end users.

Kingdee International Software GroupTech & Comms

Bosch Mobility Platform & Solutions, a division of Bosch, built the Logistics Operating System (L.OS) with AWS to digitize fragmented trucking and logistics workflows, enable automation across providers, and support sustainability goals.The platform uses an AWS landing zone based on AWS Control Tower, integrated regionally, and the company also built RevX on AWS using Amazon API Gateway and Amazon ECS to unify load-board data for fleet dispatchers. A chatbot POC is planned using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q.

MTR Corporation, Hong Kong's rail operator, used Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Power Platform to reduce administrative workload and fragmented information across the organization.The initiative embedded AI into everyday work to support drafting, summarisation, analysis, governed low-code applications, and role-based copilots for both internal and customer-facing workflows.The company also introduced a virtual service ambassador and a station staff enquiry chatbot to provide passengers and frontline employees with approved information and guidance.

MTR CorporationLogistics

Common questions

Business process automation at a glance

How many business process automation use cases are documented?
The AI Use Case Hub documents 66 real business process automation deployments across 12 industries, with 60 detailed company examples you can browse.
Which industries adopt business process automation the most?
Business process automation is most common in Manufacturing (21%), Professional Services (14%) and Healthcare (11%).
Which countries lead in business process automation?
United States leads documented business process automation deployments, followed by Germany and Global.
What technologies are used for business process automation?
Teams most often build business process automation with Power Automate, Power Platform and Power Apps.
What AI capabilities power business process automation?
Across the documented deployments, the most common capability patterns are Agent (20%), Copilot (11%) and Sustainability (8%).
What results do companies report from business process automation?
Across the 66 deployments reporting outcomes, companies most often cite speed & agility (77%), new product / capability (65%) and customer experience & trust (52%). Where impact is quantified, the strongest evidence is in time & speed: a median −65% across 3 reported metrics.