The automation of processes can help a business in a lot of ways. The following are just some and worth discovering.

• Automate data entry process
• Web crawling
• Entire business automation

The benefits of automating your processes are the following :

• 24/7 work – the bot doesn’t have a time schedule and can work every day, every minute
• Error Free work – Since it’s a robot doing things and not a human, there are no errors, whatever it is said to do. It does without error.
• Saving cost – for many of the tasks, a virtual assistant or a full – time employee doesn’t need to be hired
• Freeing people up – Perhaps the most important benefit of it is that it can free you up to do more and get you away from tasks that are boring, frustrating and repetitive.

There is no major difference between the terms and can be used interchangeably.