• September 19, 2024

RPA and Mainframes: A How-To

A Houston-based technology consultancy, along with a software provider have published a guide for RPA users who plan to leverage the technology in an IBM mainframe environment. One of the challenges …

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 …

NASA Hopes to Implement More Unattended RPA Bots

In a recent webinar, a NASA official gave a glimpse into its future automation plans. Pam Wolfe, head of NASA’s Shared Services Center said, while the agency has mostly used attended …

Nearshoring to Tap RPA Talent

In the earliest days of RPA (a whole half-decade ago), some thought of the technology as a competitor to, if not an outright replacement for, offshoring. The notion was logical: offshoring …

GSA Tapping RPA for Covid-19 Mapping

The General Services Administration (GSA) has taken the lead in identifying opportunities and assisting in implementation of RPA in the United States federal government, and it is using RPA in a …

RPA Companies Aid Global Covid-19 Response

A week ago in this space, RPA Today detailed some of the ways companies were making free RPA technology available to companies struggling with declining sales, declining productivity, a home-bound workforce …

Chinese RPA Provider Nets $30 Million in Series B Funding

How the global coronavirus pandemic affects investment decisions remains to be seen. One deal that had been in the pipeline, however, was announced this week. Encoo Tech, a pureplay provider of …

CEO Spotlight: Element Blue’s Steven Gerhardt

Element Blue is a Houston-based software solutions consultancy that got its start in the early 2000s building platforms for enterprise web portals and business to business digital experiences. The company has …

Robiquity Acquires Accelerate RPA to Enable Multi-Vendor Offering

One U.K. RPA consultancy has acquired another in an M&A market that figures to only heat up in the coming years. Robiquity, based in Manchester, England, has acquired London-based Accelerate RPA …

RPA Platform for Governments Partners with UiPath

Governments, seeking to find efficiencies as they continue to struggle with ballooning debt and increased costs, are a rising force in the use of RPA to automate manual processes. SimpliGov, a …