• March 11, 2026

NEWS FOR THE AI-POWERED INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION ECOSYSTEM

Was 2019 the Year RPA Came of Age?

The roots of robotic process automation (RPA) lie in screen-scraping technology of the 1990s. Combined with optical character recognition and the ability to automate and manage workflows in low- or no-code …

RPA Pegged as Difference-Maker in 2020

As any year draws to a close, readers of business publications are treated to a bevy of experts predicting what technologies will drive a certain industry. Last week, Forbes and Gartner …

UiPath Confirms Layoffs

UiPath has been one of the great success stories in the RPA space, but the company has acknowledged that it will lay off around 400 employees. Since it was founded in …

Using RPA for Financial Reporting Could Save Businesses 25,000 Hours Annually: Report

A new study says financial reporting is an area in which robotic process automation (RPA) is severely underused. According to Gartner, corporate accounting teams preparing financial reports could save 25,000 hours …

How RPA Can Create Gaps in Your IT Security

RPA implementations exploded in 2018–sales of the technology, which enables companies to automate labor intensive back-office tasks to make business processes more efficient and organizations more productive, grew 63 percent last …

RPA One Possible Solution for Critically Understaffed Cybersecurity Departments

Companies finding it difficult to attract talent to their cybersecurity teams could find some relief in various forms of automation–notably RPA. In a recent study, nearly three-quarters (74 percent) of the …

ABBYY Acquires TimelinePI for Enhanced Process Mining

ABBYY, a global software company specializing in document capture and optical character recognition, last week announced it has acquired TimelinePI. ABBYY enables digital transformation through RPA and other types of intelligent …

Five RPA Myths That Simply Won’t Die

Robotic Process Automation (RPA), the fastest-growing segment of enterprise software globally, according to Gartner, is on pace to grow 63 percent this year reaching more than $1.3 billion in sales worldwide. …

Report Says RPA Market Grew 63% in 2018, Competition Among Providers ‘Intense’

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) underwent explosive growth in 2018, surging more than 63 percent globally to $846 million, according to a new report examining market share of the top providers in …

RPA: The Basics

From Archimedes to Gutenberg to Ford to Jobs, technological advancements throughout existence have been applied to human labor to increase productivity and free up time and resources for other pursuits. In …