Growing data landscapes and the desire for more flexible data access by business departments represent a major challenge for many companies. This often leads to the modernization of existing data and analysis architectures, for example in the direction of data fabric. In order to reduce the complexity of processes, systems and data, machine support is necessary. A promising means for this is the automation of simple tasks up to the intelligent automation of entire processes. In this presentation, you will learn which automation approaches are available, which technological components are relevant and where automation plays an essential role in data & analytics.