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Democratizing RPA through the Connected Entrepreneur Enterprise
Jun 03, 2019, by Mike SmartFollowing on from the Blue Prism World Conference in London (see separate blog), NelsonHall recently attended the Blue Prism World conference in Orlando. Building on the significant theme around positioning the ‘Connected Entrepreneur Enterprise’, the vendor provided further details on how this links to the ‘democratization’ of RPA through organizations. [...]
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IPsoft Looks to Reduce Time to Value While Increasing Return on AI
May 20, 2019, by John WillmottNelsonHall recently attended the IPsoft Digital Workforce Summit in New York and its analyst events in NY and London. For organizations unfamiliar with IPsoft, the company has around 2,300 employees, approximately 70% of these based in the U.S. and 20% in Europe. Europe is responsible for aproximately 30% of the IPsoft client base with clients relatively evenly distributed over the s[...]
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Blue Prism Offers A Lever for Culture Change to Mature Enterprises
Apr 18, 2019, by John WillmottBlue Prism adopted the theme “Connected RPA – Powering the Connected Entrepreneur Enterprise” at its recent Blue Prism World conferences, the key components of connected-RPA being the Blue Prism connected-RPA platform, Blue Prism Digital Exchange, Blue Prism Skills, and Blue Prism Communities: Components of Blue Prism's connected-RPA Blue Prism i[...]
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Automation Anywhere Monetizes Bot Store to Provide ‘Value as a 2-Way Street’
Apr 16, 2019, by John WillmottAutomation Anywhere’s current Bot Store contains ~500 bots and has received ~40K downloads. In January 2019, these bots were complemented by Digital Workers, with bots being task-centric and Digital Workers being persona- and skill-centric. So far, downloads from the Bot Store have been free-of-charge, but Automation Anywhere perceives that this approach potentiall[...]
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Automation Anywhere Looking to 'Deliver the Digital Workforce for Everyone'
Apr 15, 2019, by John WillmottAutomation Anywhere, as with the RPA market in general, continues to grow rapidly. The company estimates that it now has 1,600 enterprise clients, encompassing 3,800 unique business entities across 90 countries with ~10,000 processes deployed. At end 2018, the company had 1,400 employees, and it expects to have 3,000 employees by end 2019. The company was initially slow to go-to-market in Europ[...]
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D-GEM: Capgemini’s Answer to the Problem of Scaling Automation
Mar 05, 2019, by John WillmottFinance & accounting is at the forefront of the application of RPA, with organizations attracted by its high volumes of transactional activity. Consequently, activities such as the movement and matching of data within purchase-to-pay have been a frequent start-point for organizational automation initiatives. Organizations starting on RPA are initially faced with the challenges of understand[...]
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AntWorks Positioning BOT Productivity and Verticalization as Key to Intelligent Automation 2.0
Mar 04, 2019, by John WillmottLast week, AntWorks provided analysts with a first preview of its new product ANTstein SQUARE, to be officially launched on May 3. AntWorks’strategy is based on developing full stack intelligent automation, built for modular consumption, and the company’s focus in 2019 is on: BOT productivity, defined as data harvesting plus intelligent RPA Verticalization. In particula[...]
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A First Look at Blue Prism’s New RPA Initiatives
Jan 24, 2019, by David MayerToday’s announcement from Blue Prism covers new product capabilities, new service and design support services, and a new go-to-market framework that underscores the importance of automation as a means to enable legacy organizations to compete with 'born-digital' startups. Blue Prism’s announcement is equal parts perspective, product, and process. Let’s exami[...]
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Get Ready for Quantum Computing: 5 Steps to Take in 2019
Jan 22, 2019, by David MayerIBM recently announced the first ‘commercial-ready’ quantum computer, the 20-qubit Q System One. The date is certainly worth recording in the annals of computing history. But, in much the same way that mainframes, micros, and PCs all began with an ‘iron launch’ and then required a long pragmatic use case maturity curve, so too will this initial offering from I[...]
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UiPath’s Go! Automation Marketplace Aims to Accelerate RPA Adoption in Enterprise Clients
Oct 08, 2018, by David MayerUiPath held its 2018 UiPathForward event October 3-4, 2018, in Miami, Florida. The focus of proceedings was the October release of the company’s software and a related trio of major announcements: a new automation marketplace, new investment in partner technology and marketing, and a new academic alliance program. The analyst session included a visit from CEO Daniel Dines an[...]
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IPsoft’s Challenging Vision for Cognitive Automation
Jun 12, 2018, by David MayerI recently attended IPsoft’s Digital Workforce Summit in New York City, an intriguing event that in some ways represented a microcosm of the challenges clients are experiencing in moving from RPA to cognitive automation. The AI challenge Chetan Dube loomed large over proceedings. IPsoft’s president and CEO was onstage more than is common at events of this type, chai[...]
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Infosys Announces Blockchain-Powered Nia Provenance to Manage Complex Supply Chains
May 16, 2018, by David MayerEdgeVerve, an Infosys Product subsidiary, this week announced a new blockchain-powered application for supply chain management as part of its product line. Nia Provenance is designed to address the challenges faced by organizations managing complex supply chain networks with multiple IT stacks engaged across multiple stakeholders. Here I take a quick look at the new application and i[...]
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The Advantages of Building a Bespoke Blockchain Platform
May 03, 2018, by David MayerFor all the discussion in the blockchain solution industry around platform selection (are they choosing Fabric or Sawtooth? Quorum or Corda?), you’d be forgiven for thinking that every provider’s first stop is the open-source infrastructure shelf. But the reality is that blockchain is more a concept than a fixed architecture, and the platforms mentioned do not encomp[...]
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6 Ways to Prepare for Cognitive Automation During RPA Implementation
Apr 23, 2018, by David Mayer2017 brought a surge of RPA deployments across industries, and in 2018 that trend has accelerated as more and more firms begin exploring the many benefits of a digital workforce. But even as some firms are just getting their RPA projects started, others are beginning to explore the next phase: cognitive automation. And a common challenge for firms is the desire to begin planning for [...]
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Application of RPA & AI to Unstructured Data Processing: The Next Big Milestone for Shared Services
Apr 12, 2018, by John WillmottShared Services Centers (SSCs) have made progress in the initial application of RPA, gained some experience in its application, and are typically now looking to scale their use of RPA widely across their operations. However, although organizations have often undertaken some level of standardization and simplification of their processes to facilitate RPA adoption, one stumbling block [...]
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Kryon’s Rebranding Focuses on the Business Benefits of RPA
Apr 11, 2018, by David MayerKryon has today launched a new brand presence, along with a new strategic perspective on RPA focused on delivering business benefits. The former Kryon Systems (now simply Kryon) will now be organized around a three-pronged approach the company refers to as ‘Discover, Automate, Optimize’. As part of this brand migration, several aspects of Kryon’s go-to-market app[...]
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Redwood Introduces Disruptive New RPA Pricing Model
Mar 22, 2018, by David MayerToday, Redwood announced a new pricing model for its RPA software in which users pay only for units of work completed, and on a cost basis equivalent to efficient human work on the same task. As a result, if a Redwood robot sends an email, or retrieves specific data, or performs reconciliation work, the organization is charged on completion for specific amounts relevant to the parall[...]
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UiPath Gains Unicorn Status with Series B Funding; To Expand into AI
Mar 06, 2018, by David MayerThis morning, UiPath announced that the company will be receiving $153m in Series B funding from a consortium including the company’s existing investors, with two new names involved – Kleiner Perkins and Capital G, the late-stage growth venture capital fund financed by Alphabet Inc. The latter is of note as this arm of Google focuses on profit-centric investment rather[...]
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7 Essential Tasks Prior to Any RPA Implementation
Feb 22, 2018, by David MayerWith every new software release from RPA sector leaders, there is always much to be excited about as vendors continue to push the technological boundaries of workplace automation. Whether those new capabilities focus on cognition, or security, or scalability, the technology available to us continues to be a source of inspiration and innovative thinking in how those new capabilities c[...]
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7 Predictions for RPA in 2018
Jan 22, 2018, by David MayerThe RPA sector is defined as one of rapid technological evolution, and every year it seems like what we thought to be bleeding-edge capability in January turns out to be proven and deployed technology long before year’s end. With this rapid pace of growth and maturation in mind, where might the RPA sector be by the end of 2018? Here are seven predictions. The first wave[...]
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CSS Corp’s Contelli Automation Platform Driving Improvements in Enterprise Network Management
Jan 11, 2018, by David MayerAs 2018 begins, the RPA sector is starting to produce more segment specialists from within its vendor base. Whereas just two years ago the sector was still finding its footing in addressing common back- and front-office application automation, enterprise customers today have the luxury of building best-of-breed solutions that often incorporate two or more vendors working in concert t[...]
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Intelligent Automation Summit Takeaways: Four Alternative Gain Frameworks for RPA
Dec 14, 2017, by David MayerAt the Intelligent Automation (IA) event in New Orleans, December 6-8, snow in the Big Easy air was not the only surprise. As expected, there was plenty of technological innovation on show in the exhibition hall, but the event also played host to some energized discussions on human-centric gains to be realized from RPA implementation – suggesting that we are indeed moving into [...]
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Adventures in Blockchain: Mphasis Focuses on Client Revenue Growth, Supporting Compelling Use Cases
Dec 12, 2017, by Andy EfstathiouIn this article, I look at Mphasis’ Blockchain initiatives and at the segments they are focusing on for further development with their financial services clients. Mphasis began its Blockchain initiatives in 2016, initiating internal experiments and POCs to understand the technology and how it can be applied to business challenges. Mphasis is working with a global financial s[...]
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In RPA Deployment, Slow Down... To Go Faster
Nov 27, 2017, by David MayerRPA software offers users the tantalizing possibility of being able to simply 'hit record and go' at the beginning of an enterprise automation initiative. But organizations that are seeing the greatest returns are slowing the initial process down, and framing their initiatives as they would treat any major technology migration. At UIPath’s recent User Summit in New Y[...]
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Infosys’ Testing Practice Update: AI, Chatbots & Blockchain
Nov 06, 2017, by Dominique RaviartWe recently caught up with Infosys to discuss where its Infosys Validation Solutions (IVS) testing practice is currently investing. This is a follow-up to a similar discussion we had with Infosys back in July 2016 that centered on applying AI and making sense of the data that client organizations have (see here). Our most recent discussion looked at technologies such as AI, chatbo[...]