Automate Work Faster and More Easily With Robotic Process Automation
Embrace the symbiotic relationship between the human and digital workforce.
- Your organization has many business processes that rely on repetitive, routine manual data collection and processing work, and there is high stakeholder interest in automating them.
- You’re investigating whether robotic process automation (RPA) is a suitable technological enabler for automating such processes.
- Being a trending technology, especially with its association with artificial intelligence (AI), there is much marketing fluff, hype, and misunderstanding about RPA.
- Estimating the potential impact of RPA on business is difficult, as the relevant industry statistics often conflict each other and you aren’t sure how applicable it is to your business.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- There are no physical robots in RPA. RPA is about software “bots” that interact with applications as if they were human users to perform routine, repetitive work in your place. It’s for any business in any industry, not just for manufacturing.
- RPA is lightweight IT; it reduces the cost of entry, maintenance, and teardown of automation as well as the technological requirement of resources that maintain it, as it complements existing automation solutions in your toolkit.
- RPA is rules-based. While AI promises to relax the rigidity of rules, it adds business risks that are poorly understood by both businesses and subject-matter experts. Rules-based “RPA 1.0” is mature and may pose a stronger business case than AI-enabled RPA.
- RPA’s sweet spot is “swivel chair automation”: processes that require human workers to act as a conduit between several systems, moving between applications, manually keying, re-keying, copying, and pasting information. A bot can take their place.
Impact and Result
- Discover RPA and how it differentiates from other automation solutions.
- Understand the benefits and risks of complementing RPA with AI.
- Identify existing business processes best suited for automation with RPA.
- Communicate RPA’s potential business benefits to stakeholders.
Automate Work Faster and More Easily With Robotic Process Automation
Start here – read the Executive Brief
Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should use RPA to automate routine, repetitive data collection and processing work, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the ways we can support you.
1. Discover robotic process automation
Learn about RPA, including how it compares to IT-led automation rooted in business process management practices and the role of AI.
2. Identify processes best suited for robotic process automation
Identify and prioritize candidate processes for RPA.
Member Testimonials
After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.
9.0/10
Overall Impact
$25,000
Average $ Saved
20
Average Days Saved
Client
Experience
Impact
$ Saved
Days Saved
Libro Credit Union
Guided Implementation
9/10
$25,000
20
Dark Fibre Africa
Guided Implementation
10/10
$30,750
50
Auckland Transport
Guided Implementation
9/10
$102K
47
Toyota New Zealand Limited
Guided Implementation
10/10
$30,989
10
Cross Country Mortgage, Inc.
Guided Implementation
10/10
$30,159
10
ATI CORP
Guided Implementation
9/10
$6,031
3
Werner Co.
Guided Implementation
6/10
N/A
N/A
Coastal Community Credit Union
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
N/A
State Department Federal Credit Union
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
N/A
SCL Health
Guided Implementation
9/10
N/A
N/A
Perkins Coie LLP
Guided Implementation
10/10
$35,017
10
FirstRand Limited
Guided Implementation
7/10
N/A
N/A
Westmoreland Mining LLC
Guided Implementation
8/10
N/A
N/A