Part four: Common features in general automation platforms General Automation Platforms offer a wide range of capabilities and features including connecting any API enabled service, authentication, triggers, visual workflow builder, dashboards, data formatting, logical operators, logs, data storage, processing scalability, multi-user access management, alerting, security, resilience, compliance, and system status. One of the most important features of General Automation Platforms is that they do not require coding to configure or manage. Each vendor has different capabilities and strength and weaknesses across categories of features. We’ve offered a quick table to help you assess vendors by using three handy labels: • Standard: most vendors offer this feature. • Occasional: some vendors offer this feature. • Unique: few vendors offer this feature. 25