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RPA is extremely hyped, yet highly effective when done right. I see as many bad as good examples out there with a few outliers, that do an exceptional job and generate huge savings but more importantly transform their business, in a measurable way.
I believe RPA is the first emerging tech, that is easy enough to understand as a concept, to path the way for AI infused business processes. Think: gateway drug, that helps clients understand, why their way of working today in major software projects rarely applies to projects in the context of Automation, Process Mining or AI for instance. Governance, customer centricity, LEAN and cross-functional teams are an absolute necessity to maximize productivity and enable scale (as for any other technology, but here it‘s more visible due to faster time-to-value IMO)
RPA is a gateway drug to get the client to automate their processes. Once they are in you can sell them everything.
We've reduced TAT to 25% with RPA. I believe its a powerful technology but like any other emerging tech, the ROI depends on how you design and implement it. With constantly evolving solutions and giants like Uber, IBM, Vodafone stepping into it, I think it's here to stay.
Doubtful. Those programs are only getting better as time goes on, not worse.
I agree. It’ll be easier for big companies (Appian, Salesforce) to add an RPA arm than it will be for UiPath to add Salesforce type of capabilities.
It’ll all be pointless once power apps gets momentum.
Spot on K1.
In my experience clients usually pour tons of money into RPA bots because they think it’s next gen cost cutting. Once the bots go to production they see the lack of value and never buy RPA products again
If you hire real software/data engineers instead of RPA software users, you don’t need RPA. 99% of the garbage I come across is easily replaceable with 22 lines of rudimentary scripting.
Don’t you have colorful icons to move around or a hyperautomation conference call to be on?
RPA is already out the door the next big thing will be exactly the same under a different name
Finally someone with some brains in this bowl.
Nothing is going out yet.. Intelligent automation is it's starting point..
UI Path has incredibly built platform with new releases that are seriously ene to end automation at every level with
Attended, unattended and conversational AI capabilities at best.
Interestingly developers have less work and architects have more work.
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UI Path has some catching up to do with the PowerPlatform and I don’t see them doing so quick enough to catch up. I would bet you a beer that Salesforce will buy them soon.
Power apps do not have major platform essential for RPA..process mining..
MSFT has longway to go while in parallel pure vendors are moving at faster pace towards RPA as service and AI fabric with easier and lower costs
I meant Power platform not apps as we are discussing about RPA in this context..
Value always leads to 0 when you offshore. Waterfall always leads to no returns when u develop automations. Whoops that's 95 percent of the market right now.
What's the word on automation anywhere and Microsoft?
The downside is that PA is almost to easy. I build out a solution for the client, they liked it and asked for a v2 design. I pitched it and they decided to build it in house. We learned our lesson future designs will cost more while the implementation will be less expensive.
Agreed. RPA firms don’t deliver the headline returns advertised and firms like Microsoft have better alternatives such as cognitive services, power platform, etc that integrate into tools enterprise already have
Frankly when I started RPA I didn't really see much value in it. But after scaling it to some extend I do see some value. I believe the tools are not mature yet although they are getting better. I just have some concerns on the long term support. IT environment is constantly changing and you will be changing processes every month. The money you are saving on the processes will be spent supporting the bots...
It definitely has some value. If you only look at the coding perspective you are probably missing the point. It's a technology that enables you to have a digital workforce, streamlines your business processes. Which the exceptions metrics you can capture valuable information on how you are performing tasks and better identify area of improvement. It's true you can build the same tools on your own but that's the case for 90% of the new tools and that doesn't remove the value added.