• November 14, 2024

Hyperscience Nabs $60 Million in New Funding Amid Covid-Driven Automation Boom

New York City-based automation company Hyperscience announced it has secured $60 million in a Series C funding round. The company said the new cash infusion, which brings the total it has …

Microsoft Continues to Build Out RPA Infrastructure

On the heels of its acquisition of RPA provider Softomotive, Microsoft has announced plans to create an RPA development hub in Athens, Greece. Greek officials, including Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, welcomed …

Report: Achieving RPA Success

A new report points to process, governance and organizational culture as challenges facing companies trying to implement or scale RPA programs. And, according to Forrester’s Ten Golden Rules for RPA Success, …

Survey Finds 47% of Workers Fear Skills Will be Obsolete Soon

Office workers, cognizant that automation could result in the loss of their jobs, are clamoring for new skills, according to the results of a new survey. The research, from RPA software …

Report: Covid-19 Chaos will Unleash Automation Upswing

Nearly two-thirds of U.K. business leaders in a recent survey expect the Covid-19 pandemic to cause their companies to accelerate automation plans. In other sectors like finance (71 percent) and telecom …

Half of U.S. Healthcare Providers Will Turn to RPA by 2023

Only five percent of U.S. healthcare providers currently have RPA investments in place today, but global consultancy Gartner predicts that number will rise to 50 percent in the next three years. …

DoD Logistics Unit Saves 200,000 Labor-Hours with RPA

The CIO of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) said it has implemented 82 RPA bots in the past year that collectively have saved the group more than 200,000 labor-hours. At a …

RPA in Healthcare: From Crisis to Scale

With its heavy reliance on manual processes in the back office, healthcare has been an area of focus for RPA providers since the technology’s emergence a half decade ago. During the …

Microsoft Acquires Softomotive

Microsoft has acquired RPA technology provider Softomotive and has added the London-based company’s flagship product, WinAutomation, to the Microsoft Power Automate platform. Rumors had been swirling for weeks that the Redmond, …

Process Intelligence Firm Nabs $30 Million, Microsoft Among Lead Investors

FortressIQ, a San Francisco-based company that uses artificial intelligence to map and understand an organization’s processes, secured $30 million in series B funding. One of the lead investors in the round …