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Implementing automation in daily operations is not a question anymore in most insurance companies. The…

IT executives see the talent shortage as the most significant adoption barrier to 64% of emerging technologies, compared with just 4% in 2020, according to a new survey from Gartner.  A lack of talent availability was cited far more often than other barriers this year, such as implementation cost (29%) or security risk (7%). Talent availability is for 75% the main adoption risk factor for automation.

Finance proves to be is a fertile ground for successful RPA-projects, as is illustrated by South African insurance company Santam. In their RPA-journey they managed to save 20.000 dollar each quarter and improve productivity eight times, freeing employees time to improve customer experience.

How can automation really help sustainability? Rik Coeckelbergs, Founder and CEO of The Banking Scene, discusses automation for good with Nitin Purwar, Director of Banking Industry Practice at UiPath. ‘Automation can be deployed to provide the data you need to evaluate your customer’s carbon footprint.’

Dutch insurance company a.s.r. deploys Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to perform the legally required Customer Due Diligence Check for insurance claims. This was a time-consuming administrative process for people, which is performed much faster and more accurately by the RPA robot. Rocking Robots spoke interviewed product owner Ruben Tondeur, and the makers Kelly Adams and Huub Ackermans of Ciphix.

More that almost 80% of global workers want a digital assistant to support them in everyday, mundane tasks. This and other surprising facts are revealed in Kryon’s 2021 Automation and the Future of Work Study, a global survey commissioned to explore shifting attitudes towards workplace automation. 

Guidance Automation announced the findings of its latest research regarding the growth of the intralogistics automation sector. Undertaken by SAPIO Research during April 2021, the research explores the importance of intralogistics automation including the role of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) within companies that have a warehouse, fulfilment, production or distribution, and were in operation during the pandemic.

In a recent research paper IDG aims to help organizations interested in exploring an Automation for Good agenda to understand what is possible and how to get started. For organizations looking to maximize the impact needs to pursue automation with a specific positive intention the authors propose an ‘automation for good manifesto’.

How advertising giant Dentsu’s using RPA to “elevate our people’s potential and enable them to do the creative, strategic, and high value work that provides value to clients”

Dentsu, one of the world’s largest advertising agency networks, will migrate to the UiPath Automation Cloud to deliver automation and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities at scale across its enterprise. This move is in line with Dentsu’s automation and AI strategic vision to elevate its employees’ potential by integrating automation and AI into internal processes as well as client-facing services.