If you go to any conference, read any trade publications, or just talk to others, you will hear that the future is in automation. However, automation is much more than just taking an existing manual process and writing some code to do it for you. To be genuinely successful in your automation endeavors, your automations must save you time and money. However, calculating that is more than just taking into consideration the time it takes you to do the task versus a machine. You also need to calculate in the time it takes to create and maintain the automation.