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Murata ManufacturingMurata Manufacturing Extends Process HQ Across Shared Services
Murata Manufacturing, an information technology organization in Japan, uses Process HQ from Appian to support shared services for HR, facilities, and finance ops.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because employee requests has a clear owner |
| Productivity | Handoffs in shared services sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Risk and compliance | Process HQ is the governed place HR, facilities, and finance ops use for shared services |
Story
Inside Murata Manufacturing, shared services used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in information technology groups working out of Japan. HR, facilities, and finance ops needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
Murata Manufacturing uses Process HQ from Appian as the working layer for employee requests. Appian is a process automation platform that combines low-code apps, data fabric, and robotic automation for operations teams. The practical change is simple: shared services has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What Murata Manufacturing gets from Appian is a durable place to run shared services and a way for HR, facilities, and finance ops to see the same employee requests at the same time.
