At a few F500 companies now, I've sought to automate repetitive tasks, which often requires access to APIs and/or databases. When I submit requests, I'm often either rebuffed by an outright rejection of the request, or a lengthy conversation questioning why I want or need to do something. Once I provide the reasons for why I want to do something, the conversation typically turns into a matter of compute resource protectiveness or IT saying they're working on similar automation, which never comes. It's like a flow chart in which options lead to a rejection.
How have you handled this sort of bureaucracy?