# Workflow automation

> Making a repeated business process run itself — a trigger starts it, steps move the data between systems, and exceptions reach a human.

The unit of automation is the workflow: something happens (an order arrives, an invoice lands, a form submits), and the steps that used to be a person's copy-paste become a pipeline — read, transform, write, notify. Done well it removes the swivel-chair work nobody was hired for.

What separates automation from a script is operability: retries on failure, a log of what ran, alerting when it did not, and a human-readable picture of the flow. A process nobody can see is a process nobody can fix at 9pm.

## Related terms

- https://dfieldsolutions.com/en/glossary/n8n.md
- https://dfieldsolutions.com/en/glossary/webhook.md
- https://dfieldsolutions.com/en/glossary/zapier.md

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