• January 15, 2025
Report Says AI Agents will Outpace LLMs for Automating Complex Workflows

Report Says AI Agents will Outpace LLMs for Automating Complex Workflows

A new report from consulting giant Deloitte suggests that AI agents—a new technology that many predicts will dominate business process automation moving forward—will be able to handle more complex workflows than …

ANZ: Reaping Benefits From Early Investment in AI-Based Automation

ANZ: Reaping Benefits From Early Investment in AI-Based Automation

While reports of AI implementation catalyzing automation for organizations are abundant, those reports are usually more anecdotal at this point in time, rather than data based. But Australian financial institution ANZ, …

UnifyApps Nets $20 Million in New Funding for AI Agent Platform

UnifyApps Nets $20 Million in New Funding for AI Agent Platform

UnifyApps, an automation platform based on delivering AI agents to businesses, announced it has closed on a Series A funding round worth $20 million. The company, founded in 2023 in San …

Salesforce Rolls Out Agentforce for Agentic Automation

Salesforce Rolls Out Agentforce for Agentic Automation

Salesforce, which in September announced a new platform designed to help clients leverage the growing trend toward agentic AI in automation, has rolled what it calls Agentforce out to the public. …

Bending the Curve of Reliability: Building Trust in AI Agents

Bending the Curve of Reliability: Building Trust in AI Agents

A recent Forbes article admonished business leaders, “if you’re not sure what AI agents are, you’re already behind the curve.” But it also noted the pace of innovation around AI has …

Microsoft Joins AI Agent Parade

Microsoft Joins AI Agent Parade

The beat rolls on for AI agents in process automation. With a near-simultaneous announcement from UiPath following another major announcement a month ago from Salesforce, Microsoft has joined the fray with …

UiPath Unveils Agent Builder at FORWARD

UiPath Unveils Agent Builder at FORWARD

FORWARD, UiPath’s annual customer and developer event in Las Vegas, kicked off this week and the company used the event to announce the addition of agentic automation platform. The intelligent automation …

Report Says Automation Exceeds Expectations for “Reinvention-Ready” Companies

Report Says Automation Exceeds Expectations for “Reinvention-Ready” Companies

About three quarters of organizations that have invested in generative AI and automation have met or exceeded the expectations they had for the technology, according to the results of a new …

UiPath FORWARD: How enterprises will transform with agentic automation

UiPath FORWARD: How enterprises will transform with agentic automation

As cooler weather arrives, it points the way toward one of the most anticipated annual events on the calendars of automation professionals: UiPath’s FORWARD + TechEd. Taking place at the MGM …

Report Says Workers Mostly Positive on Automation, U.S. Workers a Notable Exception

Report Says Workers Mostly Positive on Automation, U.S. Workers a Notable Exception

Discussions about automation often center around how it will displace human workers, but results of a new survey find that most workers think AI and automation technology will be a net …