RPA2019 – SiliconANGLE https://siliconangle.com Extracting the signal from the noise. Tue, 25 Jun 2024 03:16:06 -0400 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.22 Microsoft’s Power Platform gets new tools to automate business processes https://siliconangle.com/2019/11/04/microsofts-power-platform-gets-new-rpa-tools-automate-business-processes/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/11/04/microsofts-power-platform-gets-new-rpa-tools-automate-business-processes/#respond Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:00:40 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=495731
Microsoft Corp. announced some important updates to its Power Platform that combines its application development and connectivity services with business intelligence tools. The updates, announced today at Microsoft Ignite 2019 in Orlando, Florida, along with a large number of other new services, are all about making it easier for companies to automate manual business processes, […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/11/04/microsofts-power-platform-gets-new-rpa-tools-automate-business-processes/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE Eyeing 2020 profitability, UiPath trims 11% of workforce https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/24/eyeing-2020-profitability-uipath-trims-11-workforce/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/24/eyeing-2020-profitability-uipath-trims-11-workforce/#respond Thu, 24 Oct 2019 18:20:52 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=494756
UiPath Inc., the robotic process automation provider valued at $7 billion, has made a round of layoffs affecting 300 to 400 employees just months after raising $568 million from investors. The cuts amount to about 11% of the startup’s workforce. Daniel Dines, UiPath’s chief executive officer, wrote in a blog post today that the layoffs […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/24/eyeing-2020-profitability-uipath-trims-11-workforce/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE Show him the light: How customer feedback led UiPath CEO Daniel Dines to RPA success https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/21/show-him-the-light-how-customer-feedback-and-humility-led-uipath-ceo-daniel-dines-to-rpa-success-uipathforward-guestoftheweek/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/21/show-him-the-light-how-customer-feedback-and-humility-led-uipath-ceo-daniel-dines-to-rpa-success-uipathforward-guestoftheweek/#respond Mon, 21 Oct 2019 17:30:46 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=493996
With a funding valuation of $7 billion and a spot in the top five on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, UiPath Inc. is generally viewed today as the leader in the robotic process automation market. Like a freight train emerging from a long, dark tunnel into blinding daylight, UiPath has suddenly appeared with a force few […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/21/show-him-the-light-how-customer-feedback-and-humility-led-uipath-ceo-daniel-dines-to-rpa-success-uipathforward-guestoftheweek/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE GE scales up robotic process automation, learns valuable lessons along the way https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/18/ge-scales-robotic-process-automation-learns-valuable-lessons-along-way-uipathforward/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/18/ge-scales-robotic-process-automation-learns-valuable-lessons-along-way-uipathforward/#respond Fri, 18 Oct 2019 16:10:04 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=494053
With most early-stage technologies, scaling up across an organization can prove challenging. The keys to conquering roadblocks are organization and teamwork, according to Eric Lex, vice president of global intelligent process automation at GE Electric Co. GE has recently undergone its own journey with implementing robotic process automation across its business units. It began the process in 2016 […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/18/ge-scales-robotic-process-automation-learns-valuable-lessons-along-way-uipathforward/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE Go-big strategy pays off for UiPath as it blazes trail toward automation stratosphere https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/17/go-big-strategy-pays-off-uipath-blazes-trail-toward-automation-stratosphere-uipathforward/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/17/go-big-strategy-pays-off-uipath-blazes-trail-toward-automation-stratosphere-uipathforward/#respond Thu, 17 Oct 2019 21:00:07 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=493960
You have to have a certain level of fearlessness to compete in the crowded world of tech startups. The industry is filled with high-risk, high-stakes entrepreneurs dreaming of birthing the next unicorn. Showing them how it’s done is robotic process automation software provider UiPath Inc. After its initial seed funding in 2015, UiPath became a […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/17/go-big-strategy-pays-off-uipath-blazes-trail-toward-automation-stratosphere-uipathforward/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE Daniel Dines, UiPath Intelligent automation for processes that aren’t created equal https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/17/intelligent-automation-for-processes-that-arent-created-equal-uipathforward/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/17/intelligent-automation-for-processes-that-arent-created-equal-uipathforward/#respond Thu, 17 Oct 2019 18:00:24 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=493870
Surprise: Automation isn’t a big, one-size blanket to drape over every single business process. Shocker: Just because a business or information technology process should be automated does not mean it should be. And no, it doesn’t replace human business sense or process planning. So what is automation, exactly, and how should companies be using or […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/17/intelligent-automation-for-processes-that-arent-created-equal-uipathforward/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE Could an economic downturn help the RPA market at low-wage workers’ expense? https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/16/economic-downturn-benefit-rpa-market-cost-low-wage-earners-uipathforward/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/16/economic-downturn-benefit-rpa-market-cost-low-wage-earners-uipathforward/#respond Wed, 16 Oct 2019 21:14:02 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=493817
Predicting the future of robotic process automation was the theme of day two’s keynote at the UiPath Forward event in Las Vegas. On the stage were keynote speakers Guy Kirkwood, chief evangelist at UiPath Inc. and Craig Le Clair (pictured), vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc. Giving his take on the keynote conversation […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/16/economic-downturn-benefit-rpa-market-cost-low-wage-earners-uipathforward/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE Q&A: Robotic process automation exposes business process inefficiencies https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/16/qa-robotic-process-automation-exposes-business-process-inefficiencies-uipathforward/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/16/qa-robotic-process-automation-exposes-business-process-inefficiencies-uipathforward/#respond Wed, 16 Oct 2019 17:57:28 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=493755
Robotic process automation is in the spotlight as the new big wave for business transformation. Office workers hand over boring, repetitive tasks such as data entry to software assistants, freeing them to focus on the more creative and rewarding aspects of their job. But RPA is also exposing the dark side of business processes. “Process sediment […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/16/qa-robotic-process-automation-exposes-business-process-inefficiencies-uipathforward/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE UiPath Forward keynote analysis: Riding the crest of the incoming RPA wave https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/15/uipath-rides-crest-incoming-rpa-wave-uipath-forward-keynote-analysis-uipathforward/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/15/uipath-rides-crest-incoming-rpa-wave-uipath-forward-keynote-analysis-uipathforward/#respond Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:56:05 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=493661
“It’s very clear that the age of automation is here,” said Dave Vellante, co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the UiPath Forward event in Las Vegas, Nevada. “Machines have always replaced humans … but this is the first time in history that machines are replacing humans with cognitive tasks.” Vellante and theCUBE co-host […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/15/uipath-rides-crest-incoming-rpa-wave-uipath-forward-keynote-analysis-uipathforward/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE UiPath announces new tools and acquisitions to automate more business processes https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/15/uipath-debuts-new-tools-find-automate-business-processes/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/15/uipath-debuts-new-tools-find-automate-business-processes/#respond Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:00:32 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=493517
Robotic processing automation firm UiPath Inc. announced a couple of key acquisitions at its Forward III conference in Las Vegas today alongside a swath of improvements to its RPA platform. Backed by a billion dollars in venture capital funding, UiPath is one of the darlings of the booming RPA market, an emerging subset of artificial […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/15/uipath-debuts-new-tools-find-automate-business-processes/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE RPA poised for a lot more growth, second-half spending data shows https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/14/second-half-spending-data-shows-rpa-poised-for-significant-additional-growth-cubeconversations/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/14/second-half-spending-data-shows-rpa-poised-for-significant-additional-growth-cubeconversations/#respond Mon, 14 Oct 2019 18:36:12 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=493329
The field of robotic process automation is hot, if recent data compiled by Enterprise Technology Research is any indication. The major firms that provide RPA, which involves the use of software robots to automate repetitive mundane tasks, are showing signs of major growth, based on user panel responses from more than 1,000 information-technology practitioners summarized by ETR. […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/14/second-half-spending-data-shows-rpa-poised-for-significant-additional-growth-cubeconversations/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE Six steps to take toward an automated future https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/13/six-steps-take-toward-automated-future/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/13/six-steps-take-toward-automated-future/#respond Mon, 14 Oct 2019 01:30:56 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=493357
Infrastructure automation is no longer optional. It is at the core of many of the major changes happening in enterprise information technology. DevOps requires it. Modern infrastructure technologies such as containers and public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service enable it. Managing the coming proliferation of huge numbers of connected devices will not be possible without it. So it’s no […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/13/six-steps-take-toward-automated-future/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE Hot bots: The payoffs and pitfalls of robotic process automation https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/13/hot-bots-payoffs-pitfalls-robotic-process-automation/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/13/hot-bots-payoffs-pitfalls-robotic-process-automation/#respond Mon, 14 Oct 2019 01:30:24 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=493010
Irish health insurer Laya Healthcare Ltd. needs to clean up thousands of accounts each month that carry balances that are too small to bother collecting. “A customer may have a balance of $150.12 and pay $150 because they can’t remember the correct amount,” said Information Technology Director Ian Brennan. “We’re not going to chase them […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/13/hot-bots-payoffs-pitfalls-robotic-process-automation/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE How to prevent automation from taking over too many jobs: Ensure that humans make the rules https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/10/nutanix-advances-the-cause-of-automation-as-debate-continues-over-impact-on-jobs-and-humanity-nextconf/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/10/nutanix-advances-the-cause-of-automation-as-debate-continues-over-impact-on-jobs-and-humanity-nextconf/#respond Thu, 10 Oct 2019 21:25:10 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=492956
Automation took center stage at the Nutanix Inc. .NEXT gathering in Europe this week with the news that the company’s hyperconverged infrastructure platform would be integrated with ServiceNow’s IT Operations Management solution to automate private cloud workflows. Nutanix also released the results of a survey, which revealed that virtually all information technology decision-makers who responded […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/10/nutanix-advances-the-cause-of-automation-as-debate-continues-over-impact-on-jobs-and-humanity-nextconf/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE Are humans and machines on a collision course? A futurist examines our uneasy dance with automation https://siliconangle.com/2019/08/13/are-humans-and-machines-on-a-collision-course-futurist-examines-our-uneasy-dance-with-automation-mitcdoiq-guestoftheweek/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/08/13/are-humans-and-machines-on-a-collision-course-futurist-examines-our-uneasy-dance-with-automation-mitcdoiq-guestoftheweek/#respond Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:00:22 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=486906
The next time a McDonald’s Corp. customer is asked if they want fries with their order, the questioner may not be a real person. The fast-food giant has been testing voice-recognition software at one of its locations in Chicago. And those fries may soon be robot-cooked as well. McDonald’s is piloting the use of robots […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/08/13/are-humans-and-machines-on-a-collision-course-futurist-examines-our-uneasy-dance-with-automation-mitcdoiq-guestoftheweek/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE One robot per employee: UiPath’s automation-first approach leads fast-growing RPA market https://siliconangle.com/2019/07/23/one-robot-per-employee-uipaths-automation-first-approach-leads-fast-growing-rpa-market-cubeconversations/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/07/23/one-robot-per-employee-uipaths-automation-first-approach-leads-fast-growing-rpa-market-cubeconversations/#respond Tue, 23 Jul 2019 20:00:15 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=485122
Artificial intelligence has propelled many enterprise sectors, but perhaps none faster than the field of robotic process automation, or RPA. A recent Gartner Inc. report found that the RPA market grew 63% in 2018, making it the fastest-growing enterprise software category. And the market leader, according to Gartner, is UiPath Inc. Founded out of Romania […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/07/23/one-robot-per-employee-uipaths-automation-first-approach-leads-fast-growing-rpa-market-cubeconversations/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE Gartner publishes first Magic Quadrant for robotic process automation market https://siliconangle.com/2019/07/11/gartner-reveals-first-magic-quadrant-robotic-process-automation/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/07/11/gartner-reveals-first-magic-quadrant-robotic-process-automation/#respond Fri, 12 Jul 2019 00:13:24 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=484390
Gartner Inc. this week published its first Magic Quadrant for the robotic process automation software market, shining a light on the leading players and key trends in the rapidly growing technology segment. RPA relates to the use of software with artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to handle high-volume, repeatable tasks that previously required humans to […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/07/11/gartner-reveals-first-magic-quadrant-robotic-process-automation/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE Gartner: Red-hot robotic process automation market leads enterprise software growth https://siliconangle.com/2019/06/24/gartner-says-robotic-process-automation-fastest-growing-enterprise-software-market/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/06/24/gartner-says-robotic-process-automation-fastest-growing-enterprise-software-market/#respond Tue, 25 Jun 2019 01:03:48 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=482789
Gartner Inc. today published new data on the state of the robotic process automation field, saying revenue for the red-hot market jumped 63% in the past year. The influx of money means the RPA industry is now the fastest-growing enterprise software segment, though with a total market value of $846.2 million, it’s still some way behind […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/06/24/gartner-says-robotic-process-automation-fastest-growing-enterprise-software-market/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE Process automation heavyweight Blue Prism to acquire Thoughtonomy in $100M deal https://siliconangle.com/2019/06/19/rpa-heavyweight-blue-prism-acquire-thoughtonomy-100m-deal/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/06/19/rpa-heavyweight-blue-prism-acquire-thoughtonomy-100m-deal/#respond Wed, 19 Jun 2019 19:53:31 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=482336
Blue Prism Group plc., one of the bigger names in the fast-growing robotic process automation market, today announced that it’s acquiring Thoughtonomy Ltd. to strengthen its product capabilities. The cash and stock deal is worth up to £80 million, or $100 million, including performance-based earnouts. This represents a big bet for Blue Prism. The 18-year-old British firm, […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/06/19/rpa-heavyweight-blue-prism-acquire-thoughtonomy-100m-deal/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE Robots are not people and AI is not taking your job https://siliconangle.com/2019/06/09/robots-not-people-ai-not-taking-job/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/06/09/robots-not-people-ai-not-taking-job/#respond Sun, 09 Jun 2019 23:09:19 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=481216
Amazon.com Inc. is secretive about sharing what happens inside the fulfillment centers that our smiling packages come from. But like how its Amazon Web Services Inc. has given glimpses into the technologies that enable its cloud services, the new re:MARS show (for machine Learning, automation, robotics and space) last week gave a peek behind the curtain of the drivers […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/06/09/robots-not-people-ai-not-taking-job/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE At a cool $7B, UiPath becomes world’s most valuable AI startup https://siliconangle.com/2019/04/30/uipath-becomes-worlds-valuable-ai-startup-cool-7-billion/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/04/30/uipath-becomes-worlds-valuable-ai-startup-cool-7-billion/#respond Tue, 30 Apr 2019 11:00:55 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=476106
UiPath Inc. has cemented its reputation as one of the hottest tech startups around after landing a $568 million round of funding that puts its value at a stunning $7 billion. Coatue led the Series D round, joined by Dragoneer, Wellington, Sands Capital and funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. Existing […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/04/30/uipath-becomes-worlds-valuable-ai-startup-cool-7-billion/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE As UiPath nets big funding, exploring the impact of robotic process automation https://siliconangle.com/2019/04/30/uipath-nets-big-funding-exploring-upshot-robotic-process-automation/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/04/30/uipath-nets-big-funding-exploring-upshot-robotic-process-automation/#respond Tue, 30 Apr 2019 11:00:19 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=476098
The forerunners of robotic process automation have been around for well over a decade in various forms such as Lean, Six Sigma and business process automation. But the leading companies in these fields didn’t really catch the attention of most observers. The same narrative is not being written for RPA — quite the opposite, in […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/04/30/uipath-nets-big-funding-exploring-upshot-robotic-process-automation/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE UiPath's Patrick: "We are just getting started." Photo: SiliconANGLE It’s all about people: Dispelling the five myths of process automation https://siliconangle.com/2019/04/26/people-dispelling-five-myths-process-automation/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/04/26/people-dispelling-five-myths-process-automation/#respond Fri, 26 Apr 2019 21:32:50 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=475539
In a memorable scene from the movie “The Founder” about the origin of McDonald’s, the McDonald brothers plot the layout of their restaurant in a life-sized mockup drawn in chalk on a parking lot. This example of process optimization was certainly “lean,” but it involved no software whatsoever. Today, in contrast, optimizing business processes almost always […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/04/26/people-dispelling-five-myths-process-automation/feed/ 0 SiliconANGLE Pixabay]]> Automation for all: RPA startup aims to bring AI to everyone https://siliconangle.com/2019/04/22/automation-for-all-rpa-startup-charts-its-course-as-money-customers-and-partners-flow-in-aaimagine-guestoftheweek/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/04/22/automation-for-all-rpa-startup-charts-its-course-as-money-customers-and-partners-flow-in-aaimagine-guestoftheweek/#respond Mon, 22 Apr 2019 19:00:46 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=475164
Some hot tech startups attract a lot of money. A few attract partnerships from major industry players eager to get a piece of the action before the big money moves in. And then there is that seldom-seen third option, where a robotic process automation startup attracts significant investment, inks key strategic agreements with partners and […]

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]]> https://siliconangle.com/2019/04/22/automation-for-all-rpa-startup-charts-its-course-as-money-customers-and-partners-flow-in-aaimagine-guestoftheweek/feed/ 0 Patrick Foley Report: UiPath is discussing another massive funding at $6B+ valuation https://siliconangle.com/2019/03/19/report-uipath-discussing-another-massive-funding-round-see-valued-7b/ https://siliconangle.com/2019/03/19/report-uipath-discussing-another-massive-funding-round-see-valued-7b/#respond Wed, 20 Mar 2019 00:27:37 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/?p=472146
UiPath Inc., one of the hottest companies in the fast-emerging robotic process automation market, reportedly is close to sealing another huge round of funding that could see its valuation soar beyond the $6 billion mark. UiPath has long been a magnet for venture capital, raising a total of $448 million in three rounds since 2017. Most […]

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