Post-pandemic RPA, Open Source Frameworks, and RPA Trends for 2021
Formulated Automation's RPA Newsletter for January 14th, 2021
Why And How Banks Can Tap No-Code And RPA Tech To Prepare For A Post-Pandemic World
Babu Sivadasan takes us through his thoughts on how banks can make the best use of RPA in the coming year. Some interesting data points, especially around the rapid change to remote work and staff shortages:
“Staff shortages combined with manual task errors can lead to significant backlogs. In April 2020, lenders in the U.K. were facing a 20,000-plus application backlog.”
💼 Babu Sivadasan - CEO Jiffy.ai
🌐 Jiffy.ai
The top 5 open-source RPA frameworks—and how to choose
If you’ve dabbled in the Open Source RPA space then you probably know most of these tools, if not, it’s a good article and good resource to forward onto anyone else looking in this direction.
💼 Matthew David - DevOps Director at Accenture
5 Robotic Process Automation (RPA) trends to watch in 2021
It wouldn’t be the beginning of the year without a “trends to watch” article.
Still, there’s some good point in here, especially around data privacy in automation:
“With the emergence of process intelligence and data capture at the user interface layer, the variety and volume of data have increased significantly. The richer data set enables more meaningful insights to be uncovered, but at the same time the potential for data leakage increases as well.”
Taking the citizen developer from hype to reality in 2021
The CEO of Kyron talks a bit about his outlook on citizen developers
“What went wrong? The global pandemic was undoubtedly a factor. Operations teams had to shift priorities and shelve initiatives due to our current realities. But there were other reasons why the citizen developer movement stalled out. First and foremost, citizen developers need support when identifying processes that are a good fit for automation. This has been a friction point plaguing the RPA sector since it began.”
💼 Harel Tayeb - CEO Kyron
🌐 Kyron Systems
How RPA could help distribute and track COVID-19 vaccines
If 2020 was the year of Covid-19 RPA articles then 2021 is shaping up to be the year of Covid-19 Vaccine RPA articles.
“Olive, a Columbus-based health care automation startup, has a framework that’s being adapted for this purpose. Using a combination of computer vision and RPA, Olive told TechRepublic its tools have supported COVID-19 testing operations in health systems by automating manual data entry. In the next phase of its work, the company says it will track which frontline workers receive the vaccine and when, something it expects will reduce administration time and help monitor vaccine recipients for side effects while providing data to government regulators.”
🌐 Olive.ai
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The Future of Business: C-Suite Planning for the World of 2030 (Podcast)
Blue Prism’s Generation Digital podcast talks with Ted Shelton, Expert Partner, Automation & Digital Innovation at Bain & Company, about “how executives can re-shape their companies to accomplish these goals through business process redesign and the utilization of a hybrid workforce”
💼 Ted Shelton - Expert Partner, Automation and Digital Innovation
AI Builder: Processing documents with multiple layouts (YouTube)
Microsoft takes you through using AI Builder in Power Automate to recognize invoices and put them into an Excel spreadsheet. Check out the rest of their channel if you’re looking for good Power Automate content.
📺 Microsoft Power Automate YouTube Channel
UiPath Basics #1 - Install and Setup UiPath (YouTube)
This is a great resource if you’ve got someone on your team that just getting started with UiPath. In fact, Anders YouTube channel is one of the best resources for anyone getting started in RPA.