• July 11, 2025

Forrester Names Appian, IBM, Microsoft and ServiceNow as ‘Leaders’ in DPA

Cambridge, Mass.-based consultancy Forrester has released its most recent Wave report ($) identifying and evaluating what it has identified as the top 15 providers of Digital Process Automation (DPA) technology. For Q4 2023, Forrester named …

IBM Acquisition Continues to Bolster Automation Capabilities

IBM continues to add cloud automation resources to its stable of products through acquisition. The computer hardware pioneer that now focuses on software and IT services says the addition of Boston-based …

IBM Acquires Process Mining Provider myInvenio

IBM, the computer hardware pioneer that now focuses on software and IT services, announced an acquisition recently that adds to its cloud automation. The company added Italian process mining technology provider …

Large Firms Continue to Gobble RPA Startups: IBM Acquires WDG Automation

Large enterprise software firms continue to snap up RPA technology providers to add the increasingly important capability to their portfolios. The most recent instance saw IBM agree to acquire WDG Automation …

Blue Prism, IBM Expand Automation Partnership

Blue Prism, a pioneer in the burgeoning RPA space has expanded on an existing partnership with IBM for cloud services, according to a joint announcement. Organizations using the IBM Cloud Pak …

Gartner Tabs Familiar Names as RPA ‘Leaders’

Gartner Tabs Familiar Names as RPA ‘Leaders’

Platforms that automate business processes have undergone significant change since Automation Today began covering the space in the late 2010s. But, as they have evolved to include technologies from natural language …

Gartner Names ‘Leaders’ in Process Mining

Gartner Names ‘Leaders’ in Process Mining

While process automation platforms continue to proliferate, one of the ways they are advancing technologically is by integrating process mining capability. Whether it’s integrated into a wider intelligent automation platform or …

UiPath Tops Everest Group’s Assessment of Intelligent Automation Platform Providers

UiPath Tops Everest Group’s Assessment of Intelligent Automation Platform Providers

As technologies that can be applied to process automation continue to proliferate, platforms that can integrate the growing number of tools and capabilities involved are becoming increasingly important for businesses. Those …

How SS&C Blue Prism is Arming Automation Users with Gen AI

How SS&C Blue Prism is Arming Automation Users with Gen AI

In November of 2022, Open AI released the first public version of Chat GPT. It was also the first time most people had heard the terms “generative AI (Gen AI)” and …

Salesforce Rolls Out Agentforce for Agentic Automation

Salesforce Rolls Out Agentforce for Agentic Automation

Salesforce, which in September announced a new platform designed to help clients leverage the growing trend toward agentic AI in automation, has rolled what it calls Agentforce out to the public. …