• April 18, 2024

Half of U.S. Healthcare Providers Will Turn to RPA by 2023

Only five percent of U.S. healthcare providers currently have RPA investments in place today, but global consultancy Gartner predicts that number will rise to 50 percent in the next three years. …

Nearshoring to Tap RPA Talent

In the earliest days of RPA (a whole half-decade ago), some thought of the technology as a competitor to, if not an outright replacement for, offshoring. The notion was logical: offshoring …

Automation Anywhere Names First CIO

One of RPA’s Big Three solution providers, Automation Anywhere, has hired Yousef Khan to be its CIO. Sales of RPA solutions surged in the last year, increasing more than 63 percent …

Digital Workforce Expands into Germany

Digital Workforce, an RPA software provider based in Helsinki, Finland, has set its sights on the German market, opening sales offices in Munich and Stuttgart. The pureplay RPA company now has …

Was 2019 the Year RPA Came of Age?

The roots of robotic process automation (RPA) lie in screen-scraping technology of the 1990s. Combined with optical character recognition and the ability to automate and manage workflows in low- or no-code …

RPA Pegged as Difference-Maker in 2020

As any year draws to a close, readers of business publications are treated to a bevy of experts predicting what technologies will drive a certain industry. Last week, Forbes and Gartner …

UiPath Confirms Layoffs

UiPath has been one of the great success stories in the RPA space, but the company has acknowledged that it will lay off around 400 employees. Since it was founded in …

Using RPA for Financial Reporting Could Save Businesses 25,000 Hours Annually: Report

A new study says financial reporting is an area in which robotic process automation (RPA) is severely underused. According to Gartner, corporate accounting teams preparing financial reports could save 25,000 hours …

How RPA Can Create Gaps in Your IT Security

RPA implementations exploded in 2018–sales of the technology, which enables companies to automate labor intensive back-office tasks to make business processes more efficient and organizations more productive, grew 63 percent last …

RPA One Possible Solution for Critically Understaffed Cybersecurity Departments

Companies finding it difficult to attract talent to their cybersecurity teams could find some relief in various forms of automation–notably RPA. In a recent study, nearly three-quarters (74 percent) of the …