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IT spending in EMEA is forecast to total $1.3 trillion in 2022, an increase of 4.7% from 2021, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. The 2022 growth rate will be slower than in 2021 when EMEA IT spending is expected to grow 6.3%.
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‘CIO’s, don’t fall behind and let’s get RPA up and running’
How do CIOs feel about deploying RPA and AI in their organization? What barriers are still there and what are the opportunities? Roger Camrass (CIONET UK) collaborated with UiPath to explore the role of the CIO in automation and RPA. To do this, they surveyed CIOs from fifteen major organizations. In this interview, Camrass talks about the most important results of the research and his vision on the future of RPA and automation.
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Elaine’s Chat: How do you build an RPA business case?
How do you build a business case for RPA in insurance, and what roles are involved? In this edition of Elaine’s Chat Elaine Mannix, Insurance Industry Expert at UiPath, addresses the crucial elements of a business case and the feedback she has received from several business roles when automating in insurance.
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Environmental impact of delivery robots calculated: 280,000 car journeys avoided
Starship Technologies, in conjunction with Milton Keynes Council, has announced the initial findings of an internal study to review the early impact of zero-emission robots in the city over the last three and a half years.
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NICE today announced that a key government agency in the United Kingdom chose NICE Advanced Process Automation technologies as part of its strategy to improve organisational efficiency and accuracy. In one of the most complex automation projects for which NICE advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics technology has ever been used, the agency is collecting and coordinating data from 19 different systems across the organisation as part of its digital transformation strategy.
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Five years of rising RPA success with UK insurer Admiral Group
Set up in 1993 with only 11 employees, Admiral Group is a Cardiff, UK-based insurance company originally only specialising in car insurance, but which now offers a variety of products, including home and travel insurance. It now has 11,000 staff in eight countries, and in its last full financial year (2020) claimed 7.7m customers and £1.31 billion in annual turnover. Impressive figures, but from an RPA point of view is another stat from its annual report: that 500,000 hours have been “given back to the business in automation savings” since the approach was adopted in 2016.
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British government predicts long-term “neutral” impact of AI on employment, and only a minor uplift from supporting robotics
This week, the UK’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published predictions of the economic benefit to the country out of AI and robotics. And what’s very striking: London sees a much, much bigger possible return out of the former than the latter… and says the robots will take our jobs, but we’ll create new ones instead.
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SYNAOS and SLAMcore develop camera-based spatial intelligence to manufacturing and logistics
SLAMcore, provider of spatial intelligence software for robots and other autonomous machines, announced a strategic partnership with SYNAOS, developer of smart intralogistics software solutions for logistics and factories. Together the two companies are announcing SYNA.OS VIEW, a low-cost, real time, spatial intelligence system for manually guided intralogistics vehicles (e.g., forklifts and warehouse vehicles).
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Special report on FORWARD IV: the road to full enterprise automation
Gary Flood reports from the opening day of the RPA giant’s latest global non-virtual user conference, FORWARD IV—its first since the end of 2019
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‘Global Britain’s’ latest twist: a ten-year plan to make the UK an “AI superpower”
Even as Prime Minister Boris Johnson was simultaneously quoting Sophocles and Kermit the Frog to a bemused UN, the latest piece of his government’s post-Brexit plan to make the UK a success now it’s out of Europe was unveiled: a new national “AI Strategy” to boost British business use of AI, attract international investment and develop a next generation of tech talent.