Category: Automation

Futurum Research, in partnership with UiPath, completed a global research study of 500+ high-level business and technology executives directly responsible for the planning, management, and use of automation technologies to better comprehend the RPA journeys organizations must undertake to successfully achieve their strategic business objectives. Here’s what we found.
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., (NASDAQ: QCOM) just announced its first-of-a-kind 5G Robotics RB5 platform. The natural successor to the successful (4G-based) Qualcomm® Robotics RB3 platform. As Qualcomm puts it, the Robotics RB5 platform aims to “empower developers and manufacturers to create the next generation of high-compute, low-power robots and drones for the consumer, enterprise, defense, industrial and professional service sectors.”
Amazon’s AWS MetroPlus chatbot program, developed free of charge by Amazon with project management help from Bain & Co., delivered a significant assist to a NYC-based non-profit insurer that continues to pay dividends now and into the future. Here’s the backstory there, and a look at how simple solutions like the one developed here often can have far-reaching benefits.
Microsoft has expanded its footprint in RPA with the acquisition of Softomotive, making the company a more critical player in Robotic Process Automation.
In the latest episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast, The Interview Series, Daniel Newman welcomes three experts to talk about robotic process automation (RPA) and intelligent automation (IA). Francis Carden is one of the founders of OpenSpan and is currently VP of Digital Automation and Robotics at Pegasystems. Lee Coulter is CEO of transformAI, and Jon Gilman is CEO of Clear Software. Together, they gave Dan some great insight on the future of RPA and IA.
Uber’s coronavirus proposal is good PR, but is it achievable? There are so many reasons to regard this announcement with a very big grain of salt, not the least of which are that it’s completely unmanageable (today, anyway) as well as a massive invasion of privacy—for both Uber drivers and riders.
BMC’s Compuware acquisition is a clear sign that the mainframe era is winding down. Recognizing that their enterprise customers are distributing IT assets across clouds and need tooling to automate management of it all, they have wisely hitched wagons and beefed up their focusing on self-managing closed-loop IT operations management.
Microsoft announced Power Automate will include UI flows in the coming weeks along with a new pricing structure strongly positioning Microsoft in RPA.
Many people tend to think of AI as purely an automation technology, but that just skims the surface of what these tools and techniques can do for us.
While the explosive growth of Amazon has led to some fairly strong predictions of the demise of retail, you would never have known by walking the halls of New York’s Javitz Center during NRF 2020 this past week. Exploring the biggest trends from NRF 2020.

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