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U.K. Government AI Opportunities Action Plan Highlights
Jan 23, 2025, by Mike SmartThe U.K. government has just released its AI Opportunities Action Plan and response, which includes 50 recommendations to boost the use of AI. Watch the video for extended highlights, but here’s a brief summary: Adopting AI talent Universities will work with industry to create new AI courses and reskill workers for AI-related jobs, with the high-potential individual visa [...]
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Harnessing Process Mining Data to Transform the NHS
Jul 22, 2024, by Mike SmartIn the U.K., the efficiency of the NHS, and particularly the reduction of waiting lists, continues to be a hot political topic. While promises of cash injections are met with skepticism, a recent event in London showcased how data-driven insights could help improve the NHS’ operational efficiency without the need for major financial outlays. As part of its 22-city tour, process[...]
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UiPath Launches Autopilot for Enhanced Bot Generation & Management
Oct 23, 2023, by Mike SmartNelsonHall recently attended UiPath’s Forward VI event in Las Vegas, at which the company launched its Autopilot capabilities. While the company launched Autopilot across all its platform components, including Studio, Assistant, Apps, mining, and Test Manager, this blog focuses on its use within Studio and Assistant. Autopilot for Studio A constant inhibitor to auto[...]
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Automation Anywhere Looks to Generative AI to Accelerate Automation
Jun 20, 2023, by Mike SmartAutomation Anywhere recently announced new capabilities for its platform powered by generative AI: Automation Co-Pilot for Business Users and for Automators, plus Document Automation. Here I take a look at these new capabilities and how they compare with those of other providers, and consider the wider implications of generative AI solutions for automation developers. Automation C[...]
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IBM Converging Risk Scores to Optimize Cybersecurity Offering
Jun 09, 2023, by Mike SmartNelsonHall recently attended an IBM Security analyst day in London. This covered recent developments such as IBM’s acquisition of Polar Security on May 16th to support the monitoring of data across hybrid cloud estates, and watsonx developments to support the move away from rule-based security. However, a big focus of the event was the subject of risk. For the last few years[...]
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The Future of Process Discovery & Mining: 2023 and Beyond
Jan 05, 2023, by Mike SmartProcess discovery and mining platforms, which examine organizations’ process data as part of transformation initiatives, have become an increasingly critical part of process automation and reengineering journeys. Here I look at what to expect in the process discovery and mining space in 2023 and beyond. Continuous Monitoring Traditionally we have seen COEs use process [...]
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UiPath: Going Big with Integrated Business Automation Platform
Oct 12, 2022, by Mike SmartNelsonHall recently attended UiPath’s Forward V event in Las Vegas. The company has recently passed $1bn in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), up 44% y/y, enabled through its base of 10.5k clients. This includes some very large clients such as Generali, and, similar to the other tier 1 automation platform providers, an exceptionally long tail of clients with <10 bots. UiPath&rs[...]
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Automation Anywhere Launches AARI to Facilitate Bot Access to Employees
Oct 09, 2020, by Mike SmartNelsonHall recently attended Automation Anywhere's 2020 innovation day, where the company launched its Automation Anywhere Robotic Interface (AARI) digital assistant focused on making bot usage easier and more accessible to employees. Automation Anywhere Robotic Interface AARI “aims to elevate employees' workflows in the same manner as at-home digital assistants s[...]
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AntWorks Targets Breadth & Depth in Client Engagements, Partners & Curation Capabilities
Jan 21, 2020, by Mike SmartLast week, NelsonHall attended ANTENNA2020, AntWorks’ yearly analyst retreat. AntWorks has made considerable progress since its last analyst retreat, experiencing considerable growth (estimated at ~260%) in the three quarters ending January 2020, and employing 604 personnel at the end of this period. By geography, AntWorks’ most successful geography remains APAC, close[...]
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UiPath: Forging Connections Between Business Users & Automation
Oct 24, 2019, by Mike SmartReboot work was the slogan for UiPath’s recent Forward III partner event, a reference to rethinking the way we work. UiPath’s vision is to elevate employees above repetitive and tedious tasks to a world of creative, fulfilling work. The company’s vision is driven by an automation first mindset, along with the concept of a bot for everyone and human-automation collab[...]
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Automation Anywhere’s Enterprise A2019, Simpler to Use, Quicker to Scale
Oct 10, 2019, by Mike Smart‘Anything Else is Legacy’ was the messaging presented at Automation Anywhere’s Enterprise A2019 launch, hosted in New York. The event, the first under new CMO Riadh Dridi, showcased improvements in the new version of the Automation Anywhere platform around: Experience – the most immediate change is in the UI. While prior versions utilized code, workflow, and mixed [...]
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NelsonHall Launches Industry-First Intelligent Automation Platform Evaluation
Sep 03, 2019, by Mike SmartNelsonHall has just launched an industry-first evaluation of Intelligent Automation (IA) platforms, including platforms from Antworks, Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, Datamatics, IPsoft, Jacada, Kofax, Kryon, Redwood, Softomotive, and UiPath. As RPA and artificial intelligence converge to address more sophisticated use cases, we at NelsonHall feel it is now time for an [...]
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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. [...]