automation

UiPath and airSlate announced a partnership to help individuals and small businesses automate their organizations. Small businesses account for more than 90% of all global companies. There are over 32 million small businesses in the United States alone, representing 99% of all companies. Both UiPath and airSlate believe there is a significant opportunity to remove mundane work and complement workers in small businesses with software robots.

Many organisations, both in government and in business, now have experience with digital employees. But implementing Robotic Process Automation (RPA) successfully at an operational level is not the same as taking strategic advantage of this technology. This is where Frank Mester of MvR Digital Workforce sees more and more questions arising, especially now that robotisation has become an irreversible phenomenon.

CFOs are right to look at RPA for bottom line reasons first—but practitioners speaking at last week’s CFO AX webinar on what’s on the digital transformation horizon for Finance teams revealed that automation is actually being influenced by a number of business and non-business factors.

How do you accelerate RPA in the US federal government, an entity with over two million civilian employees across more than one hundred agencies? Gerard Badorrek has tackled this challenge as the CFO of a US Government Agency.  

UiPath announced it has joined the MuleSoft Technology Partner Program with the release of a MuleSoft Certified Connector for the UiPath Platform. MuleSoft Certified Connectors, accessible on MuleSoft’s Anypoint Exchange, are developed by MuleSoft’s partners and developer community and have been reviewed and certified by MuleSoft.

Leadership, for example by the CFO, is a critical element in successfully automating processes in organizations. RPA pioneer Asher Lake will be talking about this subject at UiPath Together 2022, the largest software event in the Benelux, to be held in a few weeks in Amsterdam. Rocking Robots talked to him about the lessons he learned in automating with RPA at, among others, KLM Air France. ‘It’s all about building a movement in your organization.’

The UK is one of the front runners in automation. A lot of companies have moved beyond just RPA, and added technology such as process mining and AI to their business. This change has implications for the involvement of the CFO in IT investments. “The C suite has to not only buy into it even but champion it more than anything else, because they’ve paid for costly mistakes in the past already.”

On June 14, UiPath Together 2022 will take place in Amsterdam. On this day, a wide range of topics regarding The Future of Work will be discussed, including case studies. Renzo Taal, SVP EMEA at UiPath, will present a keynote on The Great Reawakening: People, Technology and the Future of Work.  

Last week’s ‘Reboot Work Festival’ featured a range of regional UiPath case study and project updates—here, we focus on the rewards the automation giant’s EMEA clients seem to be reaping through its platform.

At UiPath’s ‘Reboot Work Festival’ this week, users including Ernst & Young (EY) and Xerox painted pictures of RPA ambition and scale that might silence a sceptic or two.