RPA

This week Amsterdam hosted the largest automation event in Europe: UiPath Together 2022. A broad range of topics related to automation was presented to the people attending, showing automation at this stage is far more then just RPA. A growing number of organizations is not just scaling their software robots, but actually innovating with technologies like AI, machine learning, document understanding and process mining.

Two years ago, Generali Group issued a new digital strategy in order to bring greater focus to their core business. The five pillars of this strategy are Agile, Innovation, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Smart Automation.

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.

Organization face a broad spectrum of challenges. A major challenge is the Great Resignation. In the UK for example 43% of office workers are considering resigning from their jobs within the next months. As a result others are having to take up multiple new tasks, resulting in feelings of exhaustion. This means automation is becoming a top priority for C-level executives. Rocking Robots sat down with Gavin Mee, MD of Northern Europe at UiPath, to discuss these trends.

On June 14th a broad spectrum of aspects regarding automation will be highlighted at UiPath Together 2022. One of the industries which will be discussed on stage is Insurance, as sometimes unexpectedly innovative part of the sector Finance.  Rocking Robots discussed trends in insurance and automation with Elaine Mannix, Insurance Industry Expert at UiPath.

Drastically reducing administrative tasks is only the first step on the automation journey for the finance division of Scania. RPA is helping it improve processes and the way it operates.

Part of the content attendees of Together Amsterdam 2022 get to see is some revolutionary innovation in automation, especially as it comes to robots as a service, cloud, artificial intelligence and machine learning. One of the presenters on this topic will be Bogdan Ripa, VP Product Management at UiPath. Rocking Robots sat down with him to discuss the new ways business users can interact with 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.

Real-world confirmation of extensive penetration of machine learning into the FS sector seem to back up claims of significant ROI by automation vendors.

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.