Blue Prism, the pioneer in RPA is now being sold to the highest bidder. Meanwhile, UiPath has emerged as the poster child of the industry. Over a period of time, UiPath has completely outpaced Blue Prism and is now much more bigger and valuable. So, how did Uipath become about 20x more valuable than Blue Prism? It is […]
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Gartner has released the 2020 Magic Quadrant for RPA. Let us have a quick look at the most interesting tidbits from the report. Key takeaways Here are my three main takeaways: The bigger players are here – Microsoft, SAP and Samsung SDS – and is a pointer of things to come. Next year, we should see
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We had more action on RPA last week – one of the news outlets ran a headline saying: Microsoft’s Acquisition Of RPA Firm Softomotive Prompts Sector Leaders Including UiPath And Automation Anywhere To Brace For War. Business Insider The headlines may be a bit jazzier than the actual situation but things sure are getting interesting!
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Edit May 19, 2020: Microsoft has confirmed the acquisition of Sofotomotive. There are strong rumors that Microsoft is in talks to buy Softomotive. Softomotive is one of the pioneers in automation. Softomotive was founded in 2005 in Greece and moved its headquarters to London in 2015. It is a gold partner for Microsoft. Softomotive has two RPA
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In response to Covid19, we are seeing RPA helping with the immediate impact. We are also seeing adverse impacts due to the crisis. To tide over this, there is some pro-bono work being done.
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RPA is quick, easy and cheap to build but usually needs more effort to maintain So, the upfront costs are lower. But be ready to spend more later. Why is this? RPA processes do change and also the technology is brittle. RPA automates repetitive processes done by humans which usually change (People adapt but bot breaks and
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Start by Automating something useful for you. Learning to do RPA was hard for me until I actually started doing real use cases. From there it was easy to go back and learn the puzzle pieces (like UiPath activities) you need. Look around you – what is something that you do every day/week/month? Let me
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You should ideally consider RPA for processes that have: Legacy applications Not adding new features to the apps Apps do not have too many bugs The process is mature RPA will need more maintenance if your process and apps change.
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With Process Automation as the core, RPA is emerging as a hub to add and orchestrate emerging technologies to solve business problems. Organizations have started using RPA for: AI / Machine Learning (ML) Document Processing (ICR, OCR) Natural language processing (NLP) Computer Vision Text Analytics Conversational AI (Chatbots) Process Mining and Discovery and more.. More
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Not much at least for now. The top 3 are pretty ahead in terms of what they have already built out in terms of assets and clients. They are all built on top of Microsoft libraries but that does not discount the effort the current vendors have put in to create the market as well
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