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Microsoft RPA – What is it? How does it work?
Microsoft now has it’s own RPA! To me, the great news for all of us RPA practitioners is that this is another validation of the technology. With SAP and Microsoft in the fray, it is now proven that there is a real need for this kind of technology in the enterprise. I would also argue…
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How does Microsoft RPA affect the existing RPA Vendors?
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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Open source RPA tools – A complete guide with proven tools you need to know
This guide covers the top open-source RPA tools available right now. (Updated: March 2021). The objective is to give you a sense of the proven open-source automation tools. For each of the tools, we will dive deeper into their key features, technologies used, and business models. We will also link to some of the important…
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Evolution of AI through the ages
This is a guest post by Vikas Kulhari. Vikas is an Intelligent Automation Consultant at KPMG. He is a Certified Solution Architect helping clients design, create and maintain Intelligent and Robotics Process Automation (RPA) solutions. Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is not a new technology anymore. Most of the sectors have already started investing in AI research and…
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Free RPA Language – Robin
Note: This RPA language seems largely defunct now after Microsoft acquired Softomotive. Robin is a free Domain Specific programming language created by Softomotive. It is specifically created for building RPA software bots. It runs on Microsoft .Net Common Language Runtime (CLR), the virtual machine component of Microsoft’s .NET framework. You would need a basic understanding…
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Introducing RPA Center of Excellence (CoE). Here is what you need to know.
We have probably come across this scenario. Bob manages Accounts Payable for his Organization. The group always had an issue with the tedious work of processing Invoices. The IT group after all the cajoling had come up with an Oracle custom solution to reduce the work. It was an incomplete solution and also failed all…
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The Emerging RPA Platforms
This post is based on a Webinar. If you like to watch that for more details, it is here. We live in a complex world with rapidly evolving Technologies. The rate of human progress has increased exponentially what Ray Kurzweil calls “The Law of accelerating returns” In a world of exponential Technologies, it becomes difficult…
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RPA is not a path to AI
Let’s start with the standard narrative on RPA. RPA then Cognitive RPA is supposed to be the “gateway drug” to Intelligent Automation and beyond. RPA is low-level stuff – screen scraping and rule-based. Then there’s Intelligent automation (or similar term) which includes pattern recognition and finally, there’s cognitive where you move to human-like self-learning.…
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How to select the right RPA tool
In a previous post, we explored how to select the right processes (use cases) to automate. Now as a next step, let us see how we can choose the best RPA tools to automate these processes. Many RPA tools have sprung up in various niches thanks to the hype and investment in RPA. With so…
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Two types of RPA Automation and how to choose the best one for you
With all the hype, it may come as a surprise to you that there are multiple types of Robotic Process Automation (RPA). There are two ways a process can be automated with RPA – with an employee interacting with it or run completely without any interventions. Let us look at these types of RPA and how you can go about…
