Alexandre Vandenbosch - - Digital stories
Artificial intelligence – AI – is a hot topic. Nearly all integrators and IT bloggers are writing about “Intelligent Automation” as if it were the new gold… We also share our vision, but it comes with sound recommendations and pragmatism!
SAP bought Contextor and rebranded it as SAP Intelligent RPA, or iRPA. Their new product competes with products such as UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism or AnotherMonday. Main differentiators are a combination of what makes the success of their competitors:
RPA is the right solution to automate mundane tasks and gain efficiency in your business process execution, that’s what is sold by all RPA software vendors. Practically, bots are for instance capable of:
The challenge for your organization is multiple. Identify which business processes are the best candidates for RPA and harmonize them when required. Analyze and document them well enough by identifying the inputs, the outputs, the decision rules, the happy flow and the exceptions.
There is an immediate return on investment for an organization when starting RPA: the business processes of the organization are challenged. People are going to re-think the sense of their actions. The added value is then doubled: first, we stimulate the (re-)design thinking of the business processes; then, we help to find and to implement the right solution using tools and technologies that should be combined with RPA to free time of your people and increase the overall quality of the tasks performed.
Conclusion: no 1 size fits all
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