These days “machine learning” is a common phrase across a wide range of industries. The need to manage, analyse and report on large scale datasets is no longer restricted to tech companies - sectors from retail to manufacturing to healthcare rely on data scientists to make sense of the huge volumes of data gathered in the execution of their business, and attempt to use it to plan for the future, optimise processes and predict risks and opportunities.

Despite the majority of business being done digitally, many organisations still have a significant requirement for importing data from paper sources to their databases, often items such as invoices, receipts or purchase orders.

Many companies have difficulty automating or streamlining workflows which require manual decision making at one or more stages, and the result is often poor efficiency, as processes stall due to human oversight. SAP Cloud Platform Workflow was developed to solve this precise problem - the interface between automation and manual controls.