Automation AI
Increasing efficiency and scale with cloud-native automation.
In the fall of 2019, Patelco partnered with Automation Anywhere for a workshop to gather information from internal departments vying for automation. Using a test-and-learn strategy, the company then developed proofs of concepts in just a few days for consumer lending, fraud prevention, and the member contact center. Processes that were manual and repetitive, based on a set of rules, executed frequently, and tasks that required higher human time and effort, were then piloted and finally moved to production.
Patelco chose the Enterprise A2019 platform, the world’s only web-based and cloud-native RPA-as-a-Service platform, because it matched its corporate strategy to gain efficiencies and resiliency by moving most of its technology to the cloud.
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Our members’ financial health is our top priority. Enterprise A2019 and IQ Bot help us improve service, fight fraud and keep our members’ money flowing.
Kevin Landel
Senior Vice President, Innovation and Payments Strategy
Customer achievements.
Customer Achievements
90%
Faster fulfillment
75%
Faster loan payoff calculation
$39K
Saved annually with automated Falcon Alerts
88%
Decrease in processing time
Patelco reduces processing time from days to minutes, delighting cardholders.
The first process automated was for 10-day loan payoffs. When a member wants to refinance or pay off an old vehicle to purchase a new one, they need to pay off the original loan. When this happens, the credit union calculates the balance due and includes any interest to determine a payoff amount that will be valid for ten days. This required working across several different systems. Employees had to look up the loan, do a calculation, then send a document to the member, and make a note in the CRM member service platform.
The manual process created a backlog of requests in the contact center, taking away time from agents to focus on handling incoming calls, and the work had to be handed off to someone else in the back office. This meant payoff letters could take up to 24-48 hours to be sent out, and even longer if the request came in over the weekend. With RPA, an employee submits a payoff request for the member in the member service platform, and the bot goes into the different systems, completes the calculation, creates a letter and sends it out, and ensures notes are up to date in the CRM. What took up to a few days and multiple handoffs is now completed in just two minutes, making same-day processing possible.
Processes automated.
- 10-day loan payoff
- Falcon fraud alerts
Expanding automation to transform mortgage processing.
Next, Patelco will work on using RPA for its mortgage application and approval process. The company has performed an assessment to identify RPA opportunities and is expecting significant enhancements in efficiency and improved turn times to simplify homeownership for our members. The focus will then shift to identifying more opportunities to incorporate bots in areas such as internal audit and compliance, and to building an internal Center of Excellence to create an RPA priority pipeline.
The credit union is also interested in implementing Process Discovery, the only AI-powered solution natively built into a platform. It accelerates and scales automation across an organization by recording user activities, discovering business processes, and generating bots to automate them.
Customer Quote
We work hard to protect our members from card fraud. But high volume and false positives create havoc and our existing manual processes were unsustainable. With Automation Anywhere, we dreamed big and came up with a solution that's having an immediate and huge impact – both on improving our cardholder experience in a fraction of the time it took previously.
Erin Morasch
Card Fraud Manager
Customer overview.
Founded in 1936, Patelco is a full-service, not-for-profit established to serve the financial interests of the community. With $8B in assets, more than 380,000 members, and 6,000 shared branches nationwide, the organization is one of the largest credit unions in the United States.
