Data Action Layer October 10, 2024

Why firms should prioritize automating their data workflows

by Elizabeth Matson

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Introducing a platform that automates ingestion and processing for your unstructured private markets documents will increase your operational efficiency and save your team time spent on manual data entry—but that’s not the only impact it can have on your firm.

How else does automating your data workflows impact your firm?

  • Get better, richer data: Automated workflows configured for your use cases enable you to capture more detailed data without adding time or effort. By incorporating automated transformations, validations, enrichments and data mapping, you can ensure data is verified, complete, and meets your requirements before it’s delivered to your downstream systems.
  • Increase your capacity: With increased operational efficiency, your team will have the capacity to take on more clients or manage more investments, positioning your firm to scale more quickly.
  • Respond faster to changing markets: With real-time data populated in your systems and without a manual processing backlog, your front office teams will have better access to your portfolio data, empowering them to stay on top of market and portfolio changes and react more quickly.
  • Accelerate deal review and capture new opportunities faster: With access to more detailed data across your portfolio and automation for your deal origination process, your investment team can better identify high-value deals and make faster, data-driven decisions. Automating processing for documents like CIMs and offering memorandums can reduce deal review time and empower your teams to act on critical deals ahead of competitors.
  • Reduce risk: Built-in automated validation checks in your data workflows ensure that your data adds up both mathematically and logically, increasing accuracy and reducing risks like human error and key person risk. Missing or incorrect data points will be flagged for your team’s review so no bad data reaches your investment platforms.
  • Increase transparency: Leveraging an automated platform ensures your data is fully traceable and auditable. Every datapoint is able to be traced to its source with a full audit log of how it was extracted, transformed, and processed.

Automating your private markets data processing is not just about saving time. With richer data, increased capacity, and real-time insight into your portfolio, your firm can unlock a competitive edge in the market.

Interested in learning more about how Alkymi can automate your data workflows? Request a demo.

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