RPA

Banks and other financial institutions typically have hundreds or thousands of their headcount involved in manual IT application testing. This means testing is a big burden on their resources, especially since this industry is highly regulated. Therefore, effectively automating application testing presents a huge opportunity.

Last week the City of Amsterdam received the 2022 Softbot Award for their innovative use of RPA. This award celebrates innovation in automation, with a broad spectrum of use cases from both public and private sector.  “A few years ago, RPA was mainly seen as a technology with which organizations started experimenting on a small scale. Now we see that we are in discussion at board level about organizing organizations differently with intelligent process automation.”

UK RPA provider The Robot Exchange will enter the automation market in the Netherlands soon. It is a market that is rapidly growing, with already a broad range of providers. But CIO Phil Johnston sees room for Robot Exchange because of some features in the offering, like the Robot-as-a-Service concept and The DeVol Recorder, which substantially speeds up deployment.

At DIA Munich 2022 UiPath hosted a round table titled Automation & AI in insurance. Manage the transformational change. At this meeting representatives from both UiPath and senior executives  from leading insurance companies discussed key aspects of automation in insurance.

Global RPA software and services market will be worth $20.1 billion in 2030, up from $4.8 billion in 2021, according to research firm ResearchAndMarkets.com in their report “Robotic Process Automation – Thematic Research”.

UiPath at its FORWARD 5 global user conference unveiled its latest platform updates. It also presented use cases by companies such as Orange Spain, Puma North America, State Auto, and Vodacom.

If there’s one quote that UiPath probably wants you to take away from this week’s Forward 5, it’s got to be this from the RPA giant’s new Co-CEO, Rob Enslin: “If you go big with automation, if you embrace it as the way you operate and the way you innovate–automation will go big with you.”

According to Gartner, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) remains a popular software market for improving operational efficiency with tactical automation most often happening via screen scraping. In its recently published Magic Quadrant it evaluates 15 enterprise RPA vendors.

As the number of UiPath users in its automation ecosystem exceeds 1.5 million Gartner has for the fourth consecutive year named UiPath a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Robotic Process Automation.

Annette Maier has a sucessful career in technology of over 20 years in general management. She was Sales Director Software Germany at HP, Vice President Germany at VMware, Managing Director Google Cloud Germany and since 2021 she is Area Vice President Central and Eastern Europe at UiPath. Dr Harald Karcher sat down with her to discuss trends in automation.