Oct 23, 2024
•5 minute read
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UiPath Unveils New Vision for the Future: Expanding the Boundaries of AI with Agentic AutomationUiPath has introduced a new vision for enterprise automation called agentic automation, which integrates AI agents, robots, and humans to enhance productivity and tackle complex processes, reflecting a growing emphasis on automation among companies striving for efficiency and profitability.
Transforming Enterprise Efficiency with Microsoft Power AutomateAutomation technology serves as a critical bridge between legacy and modern systems, significantly boosting business efficiency by automating repetitive, rule-based tasks. This technology employs bots for functions such as data extraction from digital interfaces or APIs, enabling seamless interaction with various systems, including those lacking API support. In domains like Human Resources, automation expedites processes such as vacation request handling by swiftly accessing and processing relevant data, thereby reducing time and error rates. Its applications span across login procedures, file management, data transfers, and form completions, enhancing productivity across multiple departments.
Tools like Microsoft's Power Automate exemplify this by offering both digital process automation (DPA) and robotic process automation (RPA), facilitating integration and automation across a wide range of applications. This not only reallocates human resources from mundane tasks to more value-added activities but also enhances digital capabilities, improving operational efficiency and competitive advantage. Additionally, features like AI Builder and process mining in platforms like Power Automate integrate intelligence into processes, further optimizing performance and enabling businesses to refine their strategies through advanced automation.
Jun 10, 2024
•2 minute read
Democratizing AI-Powered Automation with UiPathIn this fast-paced modern world, companies frequently rush to incorporate cutting-edge technologies into their workflows, battling the challenges of labor-intensive tasks, interfacing with older software, and overseeing manual operations. However, it's essential to understand that Generative AI represents only one component of a broader digital transformation. When combined with enterprise automation, businesses can truly harness the immense potential of Generative AI.
UiPath specializes in automation, with a longstanding focus on Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Since the beginning, Artificial Intelligence has been an integral component of its offerings. The primary architecture of UiPath’s initial software suite is AI-driven, reflecting its sustained commitment to AI innovation. However, while AI is foundational to UiPath’s operations, the company specifically veered away from a generic AI model, focusing on purpose-driven AI tailored for optimal automation utility. The company is now also integrating Generative AI throughout the UiPath Platform, seamlessly blending it with the essential data, context, governance, and controls required for its effective and safe deployment in enterprise environments. The UiPath Platform combines the robust capabilities of Generative AI with specialized AI models powered by automation. The integration between Generative AI and specialized models, grounded in authentic business data, equips automation robots to comprehend, rationalize, and innovate.
Oct 3, 2023
•9 minute read
Process Automation and Enterprise VisibilityEnterprise visibility has become a key imperative to build organizational ability in the digital era. As process automation technologies increasingly evolve into strategic solutions, they have the capability to play a key role in building enterprise visibility. While the focus in the initial years of process automation adoption was primarily on achieving cost reduction, the key objectives for deploying process automation these days are more strategic in nature, like employee productivity, process visibility and subsequent enterprise visibility.
Apr 29, 2022
•3 minute read
Process Automation and SAP S/4HANA Benchmark ResearchProcess automation technologies have increasingly evolved into strategic solutions during the last few years. While the focus in the initial years of process automation adoption was primarily on achieving cost reduction, process visibility and employee productivity have increasingly become important objectives now for deploying process automation solutions. This highlights that process automation has evolved into a strategic solution, increasingly being augmented by more and more advanced technologies like process intelligence and cognitive automation. This report analyzes the state of the market for process automation in SAP S/4HANA landscape.
Apr 29, 2022
•1 minute read
Process Automation as a Strategic ToolAs organizations grapple with increasing business complexities and disruptions, the importance of business processes that form the core of how enterprises run, has increased as well. Executives have realized that to build an agile enterprise, they need to run best-in-class processes and have robust visibility and control over these processes. In our recently published SAPinsider CIO agenda report, process efficiency and visibility emerged as the number one imperative on the agenda of CIOs, as shown in figure 1 . And that translates into a need to invest in tools and solutions that can help build best-in-class processes and process visibility. This article discusses the trends from previous years' SAPinsider process automation benchmark research that highlights how process automation is evolving into a strategic tool.
Apr 22, 2022
•3 minute read
Materials case study on SAPinsiderApplied Materials, which is currently completing a company-wide initiative to consolidate on one instance of SAP ERP, is seeing more requests for customizations coming into IT as more business users are rolling onto the new platform – and consequently, testing and change management issues are also increasing – so company’s Test Support Office (TSO) has a strong focus on improving its SAP testing and change release management processes. This article showcases how driving quality through testing is a big deal to the business. Learn how the company implemented a whole testing program, built a lot of automation assets, and gained a ton of efficiencies with testing.
Nov 5, 2020
•8 minute read
Build Business Resilience in Uncertain Times with Robotic Process AutomationThe sudden business interruption caused by COVID-19 has highlighted the need for organizations to ensure that their business processes are resilient and agile enough to adapt to rapid changes. Robotic process automation (RPA) can play a key role in helping organizations achieve these goals. With RPA, robots (or “bots”) can quickly and efficiently execute manual, repetitive jobs and, through application programming interfaces (APIs), can work between different systems, such as email systems and ERP systems, which allows them to work across entire processes.
This article provides a comprehensive look at how RPA can help build the business process resilience that is required in an unpredictable business landscape. You will learn:
• The main process challenges faced by businesses during a significant disruption, such as COVID-19, and how RPA can help
• Through a look at two examples, how SAP customers are using RPA to turn challenges presented by different types of business disruptions into opportunities
• How SAP can help organizations get started with RPA with solutions such as SAP Intelligent RPA
Aug 15, 2020
•15 minute read
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