Automation AI
Dec 29, 2017
Thirdware and Automation Anywhere Team Up To Bring Software Bots To The Auto Industry
Thirdware has teamed up with Automation Anywhere of San Jose, Calif. to bring that company’s robotic process automation (RPA) capabilities to the auto industry. RPA would add context-aware software bots to systems to help automate the organization and processing of all manner of data required to keep a business humming along including invoicing, parts ordering and sequencing and electronic payments.
Nov 20, 2017
Jobs of the future: Here is what your children will be doing in 2025
With the world aggressively embracing newer forms of technology, many of the existing job profiles are at stake. People are a little unsettled over this fact and believe that, within the next decade, a lot of jobs will become obsolete. In reality, they’ll vanish to the tune of over 100 million by 2025, according to recent McKinsey reports. Isn’t that a very frightening figure? In light of information like that, I can’t help but wonder what will the jobs of the future be like? What will we be doing? What will our kids be doing? But then again, before we think forward, let’s go back in time.
Oct 25, 2017
Measuring Corporate Accountability in an Era of Audacious Bots
We live in exciting times of unprecedented progress. Automation has a significant role in propelling human advancement and digital transformation is the new status quo. RPA, AI and cognitive machine learning technologies are in the real-world hands of business leaders as they command a new digital workforce. But as we cut costs and focus on error-free transactions, new service models, etc., there are human workforces — our people — to consider.
Aug 30, 2017
8 Best Practices for Robotic Process Automation
Automation has become an integral component of digital transformation strategies for enterprises around the world. Specifically, today robotic process automation (RPA) is the technology of choice to streamline business operations and reduce costs. But how do you judge whether your RPA initiative is successful? It’s not just whether the first “go live” instance does well. It’s about building momentum with strategically selected RPA projects so you continuously automate more and more complex business processes, and achieve a sustainable—and ever-increasing—ROI. To realize this kind of success, you should follow these 8 critical best practices that leading companies have learned from their RPA deployments.
Aug 11, 2017
How NASA’s Shared Services Center is using process robotics
Somewhere in the NASA Shared Services Center at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, George Washington is hard at work. George Washington is precisely the type of team-player employee you’d want on your HR or finance staff — adept at doing rote, repetitive work quickly and consistently and never complains. George Washington is a bot.
Jul 13, 2017
IBM, Automation Anywhere partner on software bot solution to replace manual tasks
A new partnership between IBM and Automation Anywhere, announced via press release, will offer integrations of the two companies' technologies to more effectively automate data-intensive business processes.
Jun 28, 2017
Get Ready for the Cognitive Era
As enterprises become more comfortable with RPA bots in general and cognitive-powered bots in particular, they will be willing to try them out in more and more business processes.
May 20, 2017
Automation Anywhere Aims At Getting 3M Software Bots On Board, Alongside Human Employees By 2020
Today, Automation Anywhere delivers the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise-grade RPA platform with built-in cognitive capabilities and embedded analytics. Over 500 of the world's largest enterprises use the platform to manage and scale their business processes faster, with near-zero error rates, while dramatically reducing operational costs.
Apr 20, 2017
I Built A Bot With Zero Coding Experience. So Can You.
Today, I built a web crawler that auto-populates a spreadsheet with stock prices. It wasn’t very advanced: It pulled a few companies’ quotes from CNNMoney and funneled them into an Excel file, along with time stamps. But it was the first bot I’ve ever made, and I did it in under an hour with almost nonexistent coding experience.
Apr 06, 2017
Disruptive Influences: 20 Tech Companies to Watch
CEO Mihir Shukla refers to the company’s mission as building a global “digital workforce.” He says Automation Anywhere has deployed 450,000 bots to date and is aiming to have 3 million placed by 2020. That kind of growth augurs a potential transformation for companies’ decisions on where to locate operations. “The interesting thing about the digital workforce is that it’s geography-neutral—once it happens anywhere, it can happen everywhere,” Shukla tells CFO.
