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Oct 23, 2023, by Mike Smart
NelsonHall 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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Apr 28, 2021, by John Willmott
The value of automation using tools such as RPA, and more recently intelligent automation, has been accepted for years. However, there is still a danger in many automation projects that while each project is valuable in its own right, they become disconnected islands of automation with limited connectivity and lifespans. Accordingly, while elements of process friction have been remov[...]
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Mar 01, 2021, by John Willmott
Part 1 of this blog focused on Capgemini’s structured approach to workforce motivation and upskilling when transitioning to a Frictionless Enterprise that leverages a digitally augmented workforce. This second part looks at how, when adopting a digitally augmented workforce, it is critical to ensure optimized routing of incoming queries and transactions between humans and machi[...]
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Feb 25, 2021, by John Willmott
This is Part 1 of a two-part blog looking at Capgemini’s Intelligent Process Automation practice. Here I examine Frictionless Enterprise, Capgemini’s framework for intelligent process automation that focuses on the adoption of a digitally augmented workforce.
Digital transformation has been high on enterprise agendas for some years. However, COVID-19 has given the driv[...]
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Oct 09, 2020, by Mike Smart
NelsonHall 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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Jan 21, 2020, by Mike Smart
Last 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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Oct 24, 2019, by John Willmott
Enterprise operations transformation requires three critically important capabilities:
Domain process expertise and the ability to identify new “digital” target operating models
Transformational technology capability, leveraging technologies such as cloud platforms and intelligent automation to elevate straight-through processing and self-service principles ahead [...]
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Mar 05, 2019, by John Willmott
Finance & 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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Mar 04, 2019, by John Willmott
Last 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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Jan 24, 2019, by NelsonHall Analyst
Today’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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Apr 23, 2018, by NelsonHall Analyst
2017 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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Apr 12, 2018, by John Willmott
Shared 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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Feb 22, 2018, by NelsonHall Analyst
With 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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Jan 22, 2018, by NelsonHall Analyst
The 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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Dec 14, 2017, by NelsonHall Analyst
At 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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Nov 27, 2017, by NelsonHall Analyst
RPA 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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Oct 20, 2017, by NelsonHall Analyst
Nvidia faces stiff new competition for the leadership position in the AI processing chip market. But the firm has a significant competitive advantage: a culture of innovation and production efficiency that was developed to address the demanding needs of a wholly different market.
Intel and Google have been making waves in the AI processing chip market, the former with the acquisit[...]
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Jul 05, 2017, by John Willmott
IPSoft's Amelia
NelsonHall recently attended the IPSoft analyst event in New York, with a view to understanding the extent to which the company’s shift into customer service has succeeded. It immediately became clear that the company is accelerating its major shift in focus of recent years from autonomics to cognitive agents. While IPSoft began in autonomics in support o[...]
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Nov 09, 2016, by John Willmott
As well as conducting extensive research into RPA and AI, NelsonHall is also chairing international conferences on the subject. In July, we chaired SSON’s second RPA in Shared Services Summit in Chicago, and we will also be chairing SSON’s third RPA in Shared Services Summit in Braselton, Georgia on 1st to 2nd December. In the build-up to the December event we thought we would shar[...]
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Nov 03, 2016, by John Willmott
As well as conducting extensive research into RPA and AI, NelsonHall is also chairing international conferences on the subject. In July, we chaired SSON’s second RPA in Shared Services Summit in Chicago, and we will also be chairing SSON’s third RPA in Shared Services Summit in Braselton, Georgia on 1st to 2nd December. In the build-up to the December event we thought we [...]
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Oct 28, 2016, by John Willmott
As well as conducting extensive research into RPA and AI, NelsonHall is also chairing international conferences on the subject. In July, we chaired SSON’s second RPA in Shared Services Summit in Chicago, and we will also be chairing SSON’s third RPA in Shared Services Summit in Braselton, Georgia on 1st to 2nd December. In the build-up to the December event we thought we [...]
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Jul 21, 2016, by Rachael Stormonth
This is the second in a series of blogs looking at how business process outsourcing vendors are applying RPA and AI in the insurance sector.
WNS’ RPA journey is moving quickly, with six pilots underway and five more ready to go. WNS has decided to wait on AI for the time being, in favour of developing its process automation capabilities, which has included the launch of eAdj[...]
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Jun 23, 2016, by NelsonHall Analyst
This is the first in a series of blog articles looking at how business process outsourcing vendors are applying RPA and AI in the insurance sector. First up: Wipro.
Wipro started its automation journey in the late noughties and has since gone on to set up a dedicated RPA practice, and also developed its own AI platform, Wipro Holmes. Currently, Wipro is principally partn[...]
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May 25, 2016, by John Willmott
Much of the current buzz in the industry continues to be centered on RPA, a term currently largely synonymous with automation, and this technology clearly has lots of life left in it, for a few years at least. Outside service providers, where its adoption is rapidly becoming mature, RPA is still at the early growth stage in the wider market: while a number of financial services firms have already [...]