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SAP SE is in talks to acquire German enterprise software company Signavio as it seeks to expand its cloud offerings, people with knowledge of the matter said. An agreement to acquire Berlin-based Signavio could be announced as soon as this week, …
As organisations continue to grapple with the ever changing challenges presented by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Gartner explains the need for organisations to revisit their hybrid workforce strategies, the role of the corporate office, as well as diversity, equity and …
Oracle has formed a new organization, focused on the cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) and helmed by executive VP Don Johnson. According to Business Insider, Oracle is tapping Don Johnson, the former Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) boss to run the …
On Jan. 25, 1921, Karel Čapek’s play “R.U.R.”—short for “Rossum’s Universal Robots”—premiered in Prague. It was a sensation. Within two years it had been translated into 30 languages, including English, to which it introduced the word “robot.” Čapek’s vision of …
Blue Prism Group shares were through the floor on Thursday morning, even after it reported a 46% increase in revenues to £141.4m for the 2020 financial year. The AIM-traded firm said monthly recurring revenue improved to £12.8m for the year …
NICE has released NICE RPA version 7.4 with the new Click to Automate feature, that instantaneously transforms recommended process sequences into live operational automations. This enables businesses to rapidly expand existing process automations, improve efficiencies and strengthen organizational resilience even …
Workato announced $110 million in Series D funding led by global investment firm Altimeter Capital alongside Insight Partners. This investment brings the total capital raised by the company to over $221 million and values Workato at $1.7 billion. Workato allows …
CFOs, controllers and FP&A leaders all expect to focus heavily on digital initiatives in 2021, supporting enterprise priorities and optimizing the finance function. 2021 is the year to pivot from discussions about the future to making real investments. Four digitalization …
Many finance and accounting teams, under immense pressure and facing resourcing challenges stemming from the pandemic, are turning to automation for answers. The automation space, which grew at a compound annual growth rate of 30% from 2017 through 2022, must …
Despite the increasing need to process invoices remotely as more employees are urged to work from home, the majority of companies still lag behind in automation implementation with accounts payable departments still largely processing invoices manually, according to a survey …
Last April, robotic process automation firm Blue Prism bolstered its own balance sheet with a $124 million financing round, enabling the maker of enterprise-class software robots to expand its suite of AI agents and dashboards. Now the company is launching …
The importance of intelligent virtual assistants is increasing in the enterprise. Experts see them as a key element of the future of work due to the huge competitive advantages they grant. Gartner expects 25 percent of digital workers to use …
Here are some predictions for the enterprise automation sector: Citizen developers will go back to the drawing board. In 2019, Gartner predicted that 2020 would be the year of the citizen developer. The vision was that thanks to no-code or …
What’s on the radar for next year? Let’s take a look: “Larger players are entering the market. One notable case is ServiceNow, which bought Element.ai. This will bolster workflow automation to compete with Automation Anywhere and UiPath. ServiceNow wants to …
Fast growing robotic process automation startup UiPath Inc. is setting its sights on Wall Street after filing confidential paperwork for an initial public offering that will likely come in the first half of 2021. UiPath hasn’t yet determined a price …
Artificial intelligence-driven algorithms controlled sensor and navigation systems on a U.S. Air Force U-2S Dragon Lady spy plane in a flight test yesterday. The service says that this is the first time that artificial intelligence has been “safely” put in …
Robotic process automation company UiPath on Thursday submitted a draft registration to the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. Investors and bankers have told CNBC that UiPath is among a large crop of subscription software companies that …
Kryon has released Full-Cycle Automation Suite version 20.12, the enterprise automation offering that combines process discovery, RPA, and analytics in a single, unified platform. Key features of Kryon Full-Cycle Automation v20.12 include: Sourcing Ideas for Automation Specific processes that have …
LG has introduced RPA to 500 office tasks in 2020, doubling from 240 in 2019. Since 2018, it has introduced RPA in office work such as accounting, personnel management, sales, marketing, and procurement. It has applied RPA to a total …
How well a company handles business interactions defines its performance. Within most companies, customers and employees wait too long for support, from getting answers to simple questions to executing complex transaction, and support channels provide limited self-service and poor personalization. …
There aren’t enough programmers in the world to meet the demand for new business applications. The situation is particularly difficult for enterprises reliant on SAP, as the re implementation of legacy R/3 applications in the cloud on SAP S/4HANA is …
Appian recently announced the latest version of the Appian Low-code Automation Platform. The new version makes it easier for IT professionals to drive rapid and substantial business value from a new generation of powerful and scalable enterprise automation technologies (hyperautomation), …
UiPath has announced it will host its first-ever Reboot Work Festival December 15-17, 2020. The global virtual event will explore innovative applications of workplace automation and how UiPath believes it is bringing One Robot to Every Person and fostering the …
To drive innovation, we need to put technology in the hands of every worker, organization, and public-sector agency around the world. To more evenly spread economic opportunity and resilience, we must democratize “tech intensity,” a combination of tech and people …
To thwart a winter “twindemic” – where both influenza and COVID-19 spread and sicken patients and frontline staff – Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is offering the flu vaccine to its more than 14,000 employees. As part of …
RPA bots are extremely effective when processing structured data, the sort of information contained within grids, forms, and spreadsheets, because the technology relies on rules-based decision making to perform tasks. This has meant RPA deployments have been focused on back …
Agencies are scoring quick wins with robotic process automation, deploying bots that can handle rote tasks more quickly and efficiently than federal employees, which frees them up to handle higher-value tasks. Making that shift, however, requires collaboration between agency IT …
Olive, the company creating the AI workforce for healthcare has announced an additional $225.5M in financing led by Tiger Global and joined by existing investors General Catalyst, Drive Capital and Silicon Valley Bank along with new investors GV, Sequoia Capital …
Deloitte automation survey looks at the impact of COVID-19 on automation strategies.
Thanks to robotic process automation, the NASA Shared Services Center now has 72 bots that are helping the agency reduce labor costs and enhance work quality by eliminating error-prone manual processes. One of the first RPA applications the center put …
The implementation of advanced data analytics and robotic process automation (RPA) technologies to accelerating digital skills among their teams lead a challenging list of digital priorities for next year, according to the survey, conducted in October. Among finance chiefs’ digital …
Full-year trading update out this morning from Blue Prism, provides a snapshot into how the firm, and indeed the wider automation space, has been faring since the outbreak of COVID. Blue Prism saw full-year bookings of £180m contributing to c.40% …
Pegasystems has launched its new Robotic Process Automation (RPA) auto-balancing feature for hands-free bot workload management. This new Pega Robot Manager capability uses artificial intelligence (AI) to intelligently optimize the capacity and efficiency of bot resources on the fly with …
Enterprise artificial intelligence company DataRobot has raised $270 million in a new round of funding, likely its last fundraise before going public, according to company execs. DataRobot’s automated platform helps companies build and deploy predictive models, per the company. The …
Now we are amid a new technological revolution — this time automating “white-collar” office work, which includes jobs ranging from lawyers to call center operators. In 2017, I first saw the term intelligent automation (IA) used by IEEE to refer …
UiPath has announced the availability of the UiPath Automation Platform on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. UiPath customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform …
These are the Top 100 highest-rated companies with the Happiest Employees, according to anonymous employee feedback on Comparably.com. This set of Comparably Awards are derived from sentiment ratings provided by employees who anonymously rated their employers on Comparably.com during a …
Third-quarter 2020 cloud subscription revenue increased 40% to $34.3 million, handily beating management’s expectations for as much as $31.9 million. The adjusted bottom line also bested the outlook and reached break-even. Flush with cash, Appian is a company enabling rapid …
The RPA automation world was introduced to a new player in the Open Source Automation game.
IBM said it is updating it Cloud Pak for Data and Cloud Pak for Automation with accelerators for industry use cases for data science, machine learning, document processing and robotics process automation. The updates land as IBM is positioning itself …
Fintech is the driving force behind the transformations within the finance industry. In the last ten years alone, there have been incredible advancements across retail banking, wealth management, and payments. Now, consumers are shifting attention to fintech for even more …
Across every industry automation is fast becoming king. Whether it’s through IT automation, robotic process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI) or some other means of eliminating or reducing manual processes, enterprises across the spectrum seek to speed up all manner …
Putting process mining and RPA together offers clear benefits—the first finds the places where more automation should be applied and the second brings the engine that can do the work. This led process mining outfits such as Celonis to build …
Company CEO and co-founder Adit Jain says that in 2018 the company was concentrating on building an intelligent virtual assistant for HR-related questions. It allowed employees to ask the bot questions like how many vacation days they have left or …
Banks and other financial institutions that take advantage of RPA have seen first-hand how this AI technology is both labor-saving and cost-effective. Business Insider Intelligence’s AI in Banking report details three RPA examples: OCBC: The Singaporean bank has been able …
Workato has added an “Automation Institute” – a training and certification program where both technical and non-technical people can learn and get certified in how to automate business processes and integrate applications and do so at scale in their organizations. …
No-code is the name of the game in enterprise software, and today a startup called Ushur that has built a platform for any business to create its own AI-based customer communication flows with no coding required is announcing some funding …
Organizations globally have been impacted by dynamic changes in recent months and are in critical need of efficiencies in delivering the service their customers demand at the rapid pace and excellent quality they expect. To answer this need, NICE today …
IDC identified digital transformation as the top trend in the life sciences and healthcare industry this year, so it’s no surprise that there is now increased interest from this industry in automation use cases where the addition of AI and …
New research commissioned by Camunda and released shows that process automation is a linchpin for digital transformation, according to 97% of IT leaders surveyed. Process automation is equally sought after to improve an organization’s top line as well as its …
