If you are seeking the latest best practices and implementation trends in business process management (BPM), you should look at the recent winners of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) BPM Excellence Awards, described below, for a forward perspective. These winners, announced in December 2017, exemplify successful deployments around the world while also showcasing many of… read more >
If you are like me, you’ve probably wondered what is so sizzling hot about robotic process automation. After all, two of its main selling points are 1) the ability for business users to write their own automation scripts (we’ve seen this before with Lotus Notes applications) and 2) providing a tool to automate manual activities…. read more >
Robotic process automation (RPA), also known as intelligent automation or robotics, is getting significant attention from business and technology executives as companies seek big jumps in productivity by deploying tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI). At operational excellence, business process management (BPM), and AI conferences, sessions about robotics implementations, best practices, and case studies are… read more >
I am literally amazed at the enthusiastic level of interest/hype in robotic process automation, also known as intelligent automation. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen hardened IT execs and seasoned business people get so excited by a technology (much less a non-glamourous product category that automates clerical/administrative work.) Need some examples? Here’s a few:… read more >
What’s all the chatter about bots? It seems like 10-20% of my daily e-mail spam pertains to robots and chatbots– this kind of bot, that kind of bot, everywhere a bot. So, you might be wondering if you should pay attention to robots for business process automation or if this new product category–robotic process… read more >
Companies that grow by acquisition can be difficult to understand, particularly if lots of different products are bought from multiple sources over a sustained time period. (Take OpenText, for example.) Lexmark Enterprise Software is one such company, having taken several steps to get into–and now out of–enterprise software. With Lexmark International itself under new ownership,… read more >
