Karen Wiltgen, principal at RSM, joins Automation Alley Executive Director and CEO Tom Kelly on the podcast to discuss how companies can transform their business using robotic process automation (RPA). What impact is RPA having in today's marketplace? Which industries can benefit the most from this technology? And how can companies get started? These questions and more are answered on this episode of Factory Reboot.

Episode 12: The Streamlined Business: How Robotic Process Automation Can Improve Efficiency

Robotic Process Automation is one area of AI that has proven real traction and product market fit, growing into a multi-billion dollar industry over the last ten years. RPA today is an oligopoly but how has the success of UIPath and Blue Prism opened doors and changed the public’s perspective towards tools for automation?

Panelists:
Niladri Panigrahi (V2Solutoins)
Sagi Eliyahu (Tonkean)

AAI 2019

RPA and Automation

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has garnered a great deal of attention as organizations pursue automation routine tasks through automation software. RPA automates tasks integrated into digital business process automation. 

Wayne Ariola, Tricentis General Manager of RPA, joins DevOps Chats to discuss how Tricentis brings its strengths and heritage in software testing automation into the world of RPA. The expansion into RPA makes a lot of sense when you consider testing technologies that operate on UX domain and data models, avoiding the pitfalls of brittle screen scraping approaches. 

Together, Wayne and I explore how business process automation using RPA intersects with DevOps tools, processes, and teams, and how RPA benefits from the experiences gained in the DevOps community. Join us on this episode of DevOps Chats as we explore Robotic Process Automation and DevOps.

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and DevOps, Tricentis

In the main dive for today’s episode of Futurum Tech Podcast, we take a look at our recently published research report, The State of Automation 2019: RPA, AI, and Intelligent Automation, developed in partnership with Automation Anywhere. Our research shows that more than half of U.S. companies have implemented some form of automation —either Robotic Process Automation (RPA) or AI-powered Intelligent Automation — and that the majority of those who’ve not yet implemented automation into business operations intend to within not too distant future. We discuss what you can and can’t do with RPA and Intelligent Automation, what you should be using it for and how to most effectively go about that. We also discuss the challenges that our survey respondents shared with us are most common, their expectations for the future, and the role they expect automation will play in their organizations.

THIS WEEK’s FAST THREE (While we normally cover five topics in our “Fast Five” section of the podcast, this week since we devoted so much time to The State of Automation report, we are only covering three topics.)

> Amazon Will Challenge Pentagon’s Award of $10 billion JEDI contract to Microsoft
> How Knightscope’s Security Robots Surveil the Public
> Salesforce will adopt Microsoft’s Cloud as the Companies Cozy Up

This week's Tech Bites Winner: Giphy has an illicit problem. Giphy, perhaps the biggest image search engine and place users flock to create animated GIFs, has a problem with illicit content. A new report from Israeli online child protection startup L1ght has uncovered a host of toxic content with the Giphy community, including content related to child abuse, rape, white supremacy, and hate speech. And it appears as though the people using the platform to hide this content in plain sight very much know what they’re doing.

Our Crystal Ball: We circle back to automation and the role we predict it will have in businesses moving forward. Tl:dr it’s big!

INFORMATION: This Futurum Podcast features Shelly Kramer (@ShellyKramer)and  Olivier Blanchard (@OABlanchard). If you haven't already, please subscribe to our show on iTunes or SoundCloud. For inquiries or more information on the show, email the team at podcast@futurumresearch.com or follow @FuturumPodcast on Twitter. To learn more about Futurum Research please visit www.futurumresearch.com.

DISCLOSURE: Futurum Research is a research and analysis provider, not an investment advisor. The Futurum Tech Podcast (and all related written notes and materials) is a newsletter/podcast intended for entertainment and informational purposes only. Futurum Research does not provide personalized investment advice and no investment advice is offered or implied by this podcast.

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The State Of Automation:  RPA, AI, And Intelligent Automation

In this special episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast — Interview Series, Daniel Newman welcomes Automation Anywhere’s Chief Strategy Officer, Stephen DeWitt, to discuss RPA and its emerging evolution to intelligence. Automation Anywhere develops robotic process automation (RPA) software, which uses bots to complete important processes. And as CSO, Stephen’s role is to look further ahead than the here and now. This is especially important because the RPA space is going through a period of growth, as automation drastically changes how companies do things.

Thank you to Automation Anywhere for sponsoring this edition of Futurum Tech Podcast.

INFORMATION: This Futurum Podcast features Daniel Newman (@danielnewmanUV). If you haven't already, please subscribe to our show on iTunes or SoundCloud. For inquiries or more information on the show, email the team at podcast@futurumresearch.com or follow @FuturumPodcast on Twitter. To learn more about Futurum Research please visit www.futurumresearch.com.

DISCLOSURE: Futurum Research is a research and analysis provider, not an investment advisor. The Futurum Tech Podcast (and all related written notes and materials) is a newsletter/podcast intended for entertainment and informational purposes only. Futurum Research does not provide personalized investment advice and no investment advice is offered or implied by this podcast.

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Automation Anywhere & The Future Of RPA

Automation Alley is Michigan’s leading nonprofit technology and manufacturing business association, connecting industry, academia and government to fuel Southeast Michigan’s economy and accelerate innovation. Automation Alley focuses its efforts on innovation and technology, entrepreneurship, talent development, defense and international business, providing resources, funding and actionable intelligence to help members grow and prosper in the digital age.

Automation Alley programs and services are made possible in part through ongoing support from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.