With the maturing of the Digital workforce, there is a growing need to track their performance through Intelligent Automation and Robotic process automation (RPA) KPIs and Metrics. Since each organization has different needs in terms of what to track, there are many RPA KPIs and metrics being used. What you need to track depends on your specific need but there are some common metrics and tools we see across organizations. If you are starting out, these commonly used metrics could give you a good place to start designing your tracking dashboard. So in this post, we will look at some of the comm ..read more

While process automation is all the rage, the understated hero of all this has been the humble processes themselves. Processes and their continuous improvement have been the bedrock for the evolution of industries and the increase in affluence. It is an interesting story of how processes came to be, and how we have continuously improved them. We started with different ad-hoc techniques. These led to many formal techniques like Six-sigma. We then built on these techniques with the availability of computer data. And now, AI is helping us take another big leap to make the processes auto ..read more

Blue Prism, the pioneer in RPA is now being sold to the highest bidder. Meanwhile, UiPath has emerged as the poster child of the industry. Over a period of time, UiPath has completely outpaced Blue Prism and is now much more bigger and valuable. So, how did Uipath become about 20x more valuable than Blue Prism?  It is too early to write off Blue Prism but it feels like the end of an era. As you know they even claim to have coined the term “Robotic Process Automation” (RPA). Like many practitioners who started with RPA, I started my Software Automation journey wit ..read more

Blue Prism, the pioneer in RPA is now being sold to the highest bidder. Meanwhile, UiPath has emerged as the poster child of the industry. Over a period of time, UiPath has completely outpaced Blue Prism and is now much more bigger and valuable. So, how did Uipath become about 30x (27x right now) more valuable than Blue Prism?  It is too early to write off Blue Prism but it feels like the end of an era. As you know they even claim to have coined the term “Robotic Process Automation” (RPA). Like many practioners who started with RPA, I started my Software Automation&nb ..read more

Since Robotic process automation and other forms of automation caught the imagination of people, there have been efforts to go beyond the limited rule-based automation. Intelligent Automation (IA) is one of the terms used to describe a new and enhanced automation by adding AI technologies. In this post, we will do a deeper dive into Intelligent Automation and go over a few real-world examples to help you understand what intelligent automation can do for you. Let’s start with a quick introduction to Intelligent Automation. What is Intelligent  Automation Usually, anything with Artificial I ..read more

Microsoft has been dipping its toes into the relatively nascent RPA Automation market. They have now added a more powerful RPA to their Automation stack with the addition of Power Automate Desktop (PAD). Power Automate Desktop is a revamped Winautomation that came with Microsoft’s Softomotive acquisition. They have made it free for Windows 10 users and even plan to include PAD as part of future Microsoft Windows builds. As we know, they started by developing an RPA called UiFlows using open-source Selenium internally first. They obviously found the internally developed offering lacking and hen ..read more

There are many Open source RPA tools in the market now. One of the pioneers in this space is Open RPA from Allan Zimmermann. He is passionate about Open source and so his products – OpenRPA and OpenFlow – both follow open-source principles in letter and spirit. If you like to listen or watch a demo of Open RPA before we dive in, here is a Podcast and demo video. https://botnirvana.org/podcast-download/4907/open-rpa.mp3 Now, let us find out more about this open source Robotic Process Automation pioneer. Open RPA Open RPA is an easy-to-use open-source automation tool with a drag-drop interface ..read more

The latest entrant to the Open source RPA space is OpenBots – a Low-code automation platform. It has some resemblance to the previous versions of the popular RPA tool Automation Anywhere. Let us check out this automation suite, their business model, technologies used and key resources. Before we dive in if you are more of an audio person, here is a podcast where co-founder Ashish Nangla discusses the history, product suite, and the future of open-source RPA. https://botnirvana.org/podcast-download/9926/openbots.mp3 With that out of the way, let’s start by looking at the product suite. OpenBots ..read more

The Opensource RPA tools space has been steadily warming up. Some customers have started considering them though commercial options like UiPath are still the most sought after. Robocorp is one of the serious open-source RPA contenders with a very capable team and almost $12M in funding. Let’s get to know this new kid on the block! Open Source Automation Stack The first thing to know about Robocorp is that it is built for developers. Unlike most other RPA options, they are unabashedly pro-code and not into low-code or no-code. And then, they like to enable companies of all sizes to benefit from ..read more

Once you have got introduced to RPA, you may like to get your hands dirty with a few easy RPA tutorials. In this post, I will guide you through a few RPA and even AI-based tutorials that can help you get started. We will start with the installation of the tool, use an easy to use a tool (UiPath StudioX), and then move to a bit more complex tutorials. Before we start a quick recap of the basics if you are new to RPA. What is RPA and why do we need it? As we have seen, RPA is an easily configurable software that emulates your actions on a computer. It is seen as a first step to introducing softw ..read more