Anne van den Berg

Everyone can simplify his or her work with a robot, but change is cumbersome. It is therefore important to tell employees in accessible and concrete terms how they can get started with RPA. Diana Kanostrevac of Generali Vitality discussed this process this during the recent Digital Insurance Agenda (DIA) event in Amsterdam. Her colleague Peter Stockhammer explains why RPA is indispensable in their strategy.

Companies that have a longstanding digital strategy are more agile, successful and have more satisfied customers. It’s no surprise then that C-level executives have automation second on their priority, according to Neil Ward-Dutton, IDC. The first benefit, agility, is especially important, since we have arrived in a new normal that isn’t stable but volatile. But if companies can embrace automation, it will reap more benefits than expected.

Banking is a document intense industry. Documents that are not always based on the same format, but need to be handled quickly, such as corporate action notifications. JP Morgan wanted to automate the handling of these document. Enter: RPA and AI. During the AI Summit by UiPath, Frank Chen of JP Morgan explained how non-tech users build and trained the model handling these documents.

The era of the autonomous enterprise is here, says Leslie Joseph, principal analyst at Forrester Research during UiPath’s AI Summit. However, still 81 per cent of all businesses has just taken the first steps in automating their processes. The end game is not just adopting deep learning, but to weave all levels into one. ‘Where humans and digital workers all play their part in the autonomous enterprise’, says Joseph.

Climate change and the war in the Ukraine are currently top of mind for the CFO, after we’ve just recovered from a global pandemic. Some companies have the urge to go back to basics, but during the recent CFO Executive Dialogue, it was evident that financials lose interest pretty quickly if the basics fill most of their day. Therefore, some companies take it upon themselves to automate repetitive, simpler tasks.

Although automation and robotisation are emerging in Human Resources (HR), the conversation that took place during CIOnet’s webinar on the future of work was mostly about people. ‘Automation in HR is about harnessing talent without losing  the people-focused dimension,’ one of the panellists said. But what that will look like differs from company to company. ‘That is also what makes our profession so interesting.’

What if tedious and time-consuming tasks done by inhouse counselors could be automated? That is the promise of legal tech. Even though legal tech takes over some work, it doesn’t mean lawyers should fear for their jobs. On the contrary, says Marcus Schmitt, General Manager of ECLA. ‘It frees up time for more complex and detailed cases, for which they otherwise would have too little time.’

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On the 16th of September 2019, eagle lsp was founded. Now, barely eighteen months later, the company has over 50 employees, two DAX-30 clients and three Business Units. This growth clearly shows the hunger for cost efficiency and high quality in legal services. Automating certain legal processes, especially those that cost a large amount of time and have a repetitive nature is a huge driver for growth at eagle lsp.

This summer, Vasile Tiple was appointed Head of Legal Automation at UiPath, providing companies with the leading enterprise platform for automation. A logical step in his career, as he previously led the legal department of UiPath into the Legal Automation Program. A program of which he himself was a sceptic at first, but soon after the first repetitive process was automated, he became an ambassador for using robotic process automation (RPA) for legal work. Now he’s leading the industry into the legal automation era.