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In today's dynamic business landscape, where technological evolution is relentless, numerous enterprises rely on the stability and reliability of IBM® i and IBM Z® platforms to manage their core applications. To remain competitive, businesses built on IBM technology must embrace rapid modernization and automation. 

Here are ten reasons why integrating automation tools into your planning leads to ongoing success in your modernization journey: 

1. Illuminating End-to-End Workflow

Uncovering your organization's interactions with data and business logic housed within your legacy applications enables the expedited creation of heatmaps that identify frequently used workflows and accessed data that help pinpoint prime candidates for workflow automation.

2. Prioritizing High-Impact Projects

Amplified visibility into workflows and processes empowers identifying areas ripe for automation and modernization, ensuring enhancements are sequenced to generate maximum value for your business.

3. Mitigating Cost Overruns

A meticulous, data-driven appraisal of your workflows equips you to accurately gauge the temporal and resource commitments demanded by your project, curbing the risk of budget overruns.

4. Facilitating Robot and API Creation

Launching into swift ROI territory begins with Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Data-informed workflows pave a frictionless pathway to crafting automation robots and APIs.

5. Crafting Modern, Intuitive User Experiences

Comprehensive workflow visibility empowers IT to identify navigational hurdles that inhibit user access. This insight informs the construction of an intuitive user interface (UI), fostering enhanced user experiences (UX).

6. Enhancing Business Alignment

Integrating APIs with legacy applications helps foster business alignment by dismantling silos, nurturing a symbiotic ecosystem that liberates business operations and customer engagement from infrastructural constraints.

Building repositories of tests that are automatically triggered when new code is introduced improves testing productivity and reduces delay, allowing agile development and CI/CD to continue undisrupted.

7. Centralizing Development and Deployment Control

When IT centralizes the orchestration of robot and API development and deployment using a DevOps-lite tool, workflows are automated protocols upheld, and developer productivity is elevated, further enriching user experiences (UX).

8. Securing Stakeholder Endorsement

The capacity to marshal projects with data-driven rationale sets the stage for triumphant initiatives, securing vital buy-in from key business stakeholders. 

9. Amplifying Productivity

Generating data-rich insights empowers allocating appropriate resources to designated tasks collaboratively forging an efficient machine that optimizes automated processes, workflow discovery, and script construction.

10. Elevating Job Satisfaction

Process discovery automation, guided by data, empowers developers to dedicate their efforts to generating exceptional features and functionality for internal and external stakeholders which frees their time for more stimulating work, amplifying their job satisfaction. 

The blend of data-driven insights, automated workflows, and process optimization propels organizations toward sustainable modernization and innovation.