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This year, it took Denmark less than three months to use our share of the world’s natural resources for 2022, and last year it took the world less than seven months to hit Earth Overshoot Day.

When Helen Morgan started working at character clothing retailer Character.com in June 2020, she embarked on a digital transformation project, building the roadmap to financial automation.

For many retailers, competitive pricing analysis is the key to increase their revenue and stay ahead of competition. Global shifts are forcing these companies to become more data-centric, collect and analyze pricing data, map their position against competitors, and offer optimal prices.

I believe that especially now, in these times of hybrid and remote work, it is more important than ever to incorporate the automation undertaking as part of a larger program within an organization. You need to have direction and motivation as well as resource and budgetary commitment and these are all things a wider program can assist with.

According to travel research, most people plan their vacations 4 – 6 months in advance. When I reflect on my own vacation planning, I must say that I fall into this statistic. I feel it gives you just enough time to make travel arrangements, book excursions and get prepared. We recently booked our next vacation to Italy and now we can simply enjoy the daydreams until departure: Who will we meet? What adventures will we have? What type of wines will we try? And my personal favorite, how much gelato will we eat?

The study of robotics has long been a point of fascination as researchers have sought to discover the potential for automated technology. While the development of autonomous machines certainly isn’t new, mobile robots have found their way into a variety of industries as of late, especially in the manufacturing industry—specifically, quadrupedal robots.  

Everyone is fed up of hearing about the pandemic and the catastrophic impact it has had on the world. But the fact is, although statistics confirm Covid-19 is waning, the rise of new variants including Omicron means the virus is still very much present and working its way through the population, continuing to leave its destruction behind it. 

Automatisierung zählt laut McKinsey zu den Top-Technologie-Trends weltweit. Auch in Deutschland werden in mehr als 70 Prozent aller Unternehmen bereits Software-Roboter bei mindestens fünf Prozessen eingesetzt. Fast ebenso viele Firmen planen weitere Investitionen in den kommenden zwölf Monaten, das zeigt eine aktuelle IDG-Studie. Die Experten bei UiPath sehen daher in diesem Umfeld für das kommende Jahr vier große Trends im Bereich Automatisierung; drei davon beziehen sich auf neue Aufgaben im C-Level der Unternehmen.

Automation is one of the top technology trends worldwide according to McKinsey. In Germany, too, more than 70% of all companies already use software robots in at least five processes. Almost as many companies are planning further investments in the next twelve months, according to a recent IDG study. Against this backdrop, the experts at UiPath therefore see four major trends in automation for the coming year; three of which pertain to new tasks at the C level of companies.

Over the past 20 years, back office outsourcing has been the go-to solution for large enterprises looking to save costs on repetitive, labour-intensive work. Next to cost reductions, a big benefit of moving the back office to low wage countries used to be the availability of a large labour force that allowed easy scaling. Countries like the Philippines, Indonesia and India used to be very popular countries to go to.