Whether you’re an aspiring automation leader or a skilled veteran, we all hope to achieve one common goal: a truly innovative center of excellence (CoE). New to this topic? Start here: What is an automation CoE? We put together a list of quotes from industry leaders to inspire you while building or growing your own automation CoE. Pick your favorites (or all of them, we won't tell), and try implementing them into your automation strategy. An automation operating model is critical The automation operating model [AOM] was laid out so we could propel ourselves. We’re at 40 automations right now ..read more

Why automation? “We have to automate.” This is the statement I’ve heard from countless automation team members and even leaders over the years. It is usually the result of a top-down mandate from a chief information officer (CIO) or another leader in IT, from an architecture team, or from a long-running digital transformation program. Rarely is it rooted in strategy and alignment with the business or the objectives of the larger enterprise. I equate it to giving someone a hammer and telling them they must use it as much as possible. Without the “why” clearly defined, an automation program can ..read more

I’m sure you’ve heard the buzz. ChatGPT took the world by storm in recent months. It seems everyone is imagining what they can build with ChatGPT for (fill in your niche of choice). And while we’re also excited about ChatGPT’s future use cases to further free humanity from boring, tedious work, let’s look back at what one humble technology has already transformed. Let’s take a look at some of my favorite automations and automation-powered apps from the Sales and Presales teams from the past quarter (Q4 FY23). If you’re new to this series, every quarter we update our community on our internal a ..read more

Countries around the world are facing increasing unemployment rates, with both public and private sectors attempting to address the issue. Automation has entered the conversation: can upskilling citizens with automation training reduce unemployment rates? For more than a year and a half I’ve been part of a grassroots effort to reduce unemployment in South Africa as a result of teaching people automation skills. Unemployment in South Africa Unemployment among South Africa's youth is a pressing issue, with statistics showing that over 50% of individuals between the ages of 15 and 34 are unemploy ..read more

Notice anything different?  When you clicked on the UiPath website today, you may have seen a few changes. We’ve done some spring cleaning to make the site more useful, more meaningful, and easier to navigate. But the changes are more than skin deep. We’re also debuting a new tagline: The Foundation of Innovation™. Now, we understand that a change of tagline isn’t usually newsworthy. Companies do it all the time. Marketers gotta market. But there’s more to this change than just a new tagline. It’s a reflection of the changing reality of our customers. And that changing reality has inspire ..read more

Every company is an artificial intelligence (AI) company. So the old saying goes. But we’re much closer than we often realize to making this maxim a reality. For a long time, access to truly powerful AI solutions has been restricted to a lucky few. And that’s because AI is hard. Difficult to train, expensive to maintain, impossible to scale. Historically, the skill gap to achieve game-changing AI has been too high and too expensive for most. But a new era is fast approaching. It’s driven by technological advances and new approaches to using AI in the enterprise. In many core business areas, it ..read more

Whether they know it or not, workers love APIs. They may not know how they function, or that API stands for “application programming interface.” But they do appreciate the kind of connectivity that enables them to quickly synchronize their business data and tasks from one app to the next. Automation developers have embraced APIs Automation developers, however, may see the above API point-to-point integration as just one option in their automation toolkit. Process automation requires going beyond traditional API integration. App-to-app, user interface (UI) robot-to-app, document deciphering-to ..read more

Another month, another exciting batch of product updates across the UiPath Business Automation Platform as we gear up for our 2023.4 General Availability launch in May. In this post, we’ll look at several new features aimed at making automation discovery, development, and deployment easier, more efficient, and more user friendly. So, let's dive in and see what's new! Automate smarter and faster with UiPath Dev Dives Make sure to join UiPath Dev Dives, our monthly hands-on webinar series packed with demos and real-life examples of how to build better, faster, and more reliable automations with ..read more

Back in 2016, Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum (WEF) popularized the term “Fourth Industrial Revolution” to describe the rapid technological changes impacting society in the twenty-first century. According to Schwab, a range of technologies were “blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres,” and humanity stood “on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another.” The WEF recently wrapped up their 2023 meeting in Davos, their seventh since the term Fourth Industrial Revolution entered the ..read more

In a matter of weeks, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has moved from the bleeding edge of technology to the mainstream. Right now, you, me, and just about anyone can use AI to create amazing artwork, narrate a book, write a blog, even create a new programming language from scratch. Imagine going back just a couple years ago and telling your colleagues you’d be able to do all of that today from your smartphone! The launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT—a large language model (LLM) able to generate human-like text—has been a catalyst. It has revealed to millions of people around the world the recen ..read more