Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

The current pandemic presents a major challenge for many organisations, especially when it comes to remaining competitive in an uncertain economic situation. In order to overcome the difficulties, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is adopted by many businesses to boost their productivity, improve service and product quality and increase customer satisfaction.

Gavin Mee, managing director for Northern Europe at enterprise automation firm UiPath, reveals that software robots can support green solutions and, when implemented at scale, could help to significantly reduce a business’ carbon footprint while boosting its efficiency.

The year is 2021. There’s been an overnight shift to digital operations, but the pressure to stay competitive, eliminating bottlenecks, and ensuring stability still remain as business priorities.

Richard Farrell, Netcall’s chief innovation officer, recently hosted a webinar featuring guest speaker Dr Bernhard Schaffrik, principal analyst at Forrester, exploring ‘Transformative Trends for Automation Software’. following Forrester’s recently completed and published evaluation of top RPA vendors ‘The Forrester Wave: Robotic Process Automation, Q1 2021’ – which unearthed the challenges, and opportunities, that companies of all maturities are facing when looking to automate.

Guidance Automation, a provider of guidance, navigation and control technologies,  announces the findings of its latest research regarding the growth of the intralogistics automation sector.

Use of robotic process automation (RPA) is increasing within industries, with the technology now commonly taking advantage of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to learn lists of actions to ultimately automate tasks.

The use of RPA (Robotic Process Automation) is said to have many advantages over traditional workflows in the fintech industry. However, there are challenges in the implementation of truly integrated systems which could bring business to the next level.

Over the past few decades, we have already started to witness the automation evolution take place, with the global market size of industrial robotics forecast to increase to $18.62 billion (€15.28 billion) by 2025.

Appian unveiled the latest version of the Appian Low-code Automation Platform. The new release expands the boundaries of the low-code industry with the introduction of low-code data, a new code-free approach to unifying enterprise data.

Construction has started on a research facility for robotics and artificial intelligence, which will be the advanced of its type in the UK.

New research published by SnapLogic reveals that 78% of businesses plan to increase their spending on automation initiatives in the next 12 months.

The COVID-19 pandemic has driven more German enterprises to adopt intelligent automation technologies such as robotic process automation and artificial intelligence, according to a new report published by Information Services Group (ISG), a global technology research and advisory firm.

OpenBots, the open source RPA software company, has been introducing new tools, features, and capabilities to the RPA market regularly since their launch in November of 2020.

Software AG has entered into a collaboration agreement with Automation Anywhere, which will make scalable automation achievable for more businesses. Software AG’s ARIS platform will bookend Automation Anywhere RPA with process mining and process management. This will improve the discovery of automation opportunities and then management of automated processes.

The robotics and automation industry continues to accelerate, and has undertaken a number of changes over the past 12 months due to COVID-19 acting as a catalyst for business digital transformation, says Paul Rivers, CEO, Guidance Automation.

The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan’s high-tech applied research institutions, announced it will introduce and demonstrate AI and robotics technologies at its CES 2021 event site.

Combining its core competencies in robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles with a deep understanding of customer needs, LG Electronics announced that it is developing an autonomous robot that will use ultraviolet (UV-C) light to disinfect high-touch, high-traffic areas. LG Business Solutions USA plans to offer the UV robot to U.S. hospitality, education, corporate, retail, restaurant, and transportation customers in early 2021.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness…” – Opening paragraph of Charles Dickens’ novel, A Tale of Two Cities.

As e-commerce volumes soar and labour shortages continue in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, more enterprises are seeking automated robotics solutions to meet client demand and increase efficiency. Mech-Mind Robotics‘ intelligent industrial robots address key challenges facing industry players today with next-gen solutions that are accurate, precise, and cost-effective.

Cynet announced the future of extended detection and response with the launch of Cynet 360 V4.0. The new generation autonomous breach prevention platform now features XDR, 24/7 Managed Detection & Response (MDR) and full Response Automation, improving cyber threat detection accuracy while reducing the complexity and overhead required for comprehensive defense and mitigation of sophisticated and subversive cyber-attacks.

Gartner calls ‘hyperautomation’ the most important of the top 10 strategic technology trends for 2020. Is it worth the hype? The short answer, says Tyler Suss, product marketing director at Kofax, is, “Yes.”

Birmingham City Council’s Information, Technology and Digital Service (IT&D) is teaming up with Nutanix to migrate its legacy hardware to a hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Kinaxis, a specialist in confident decision-making in an unpredictable world, has agreed to acquire Toronto-based Rubikloud for US$60 million (€53 million). Rubikloud is an emerging provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that automate supply chain prescriptive analytics and decision-making in the retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries. 

Enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company, UiPath today added conversational AI (artificial intelligence) capabilities to what it claims is the industry’s end-to-end hyperautomation platform.

Deloitte and UiPath, an enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company, are working together to deliver Deloitte Intelligent Document Processing (DIDP).

The amount of data that is generated, communicated and manipulated in modern industries is truly staggering. For instance, over a terabyte of data is saved each day in power production alone, and this is quickly increasing as time marches on. Here, George Walker, managing director of industrial automation specialist Novotek UK & Ireland, discusses what goes into these multi-terabyte data handling systems.

UiPath, a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) enterprise software company, and Bucharest International Arbitration Court (BIAC) have launched what is said to be the world’s fully automated institutional mediation process for the conclusion of arbitration agreements.