RPA and Technology

Post updated May 26th 2020 One big factor in choosing an RPA product is cost, so here is an overview of all of the Open Source RPA software that I can find on Google. Summary of Findings I’m putting the summary up top in case you don’t want to read further. As of now, I wouldn’t recommend any of the...

In DevOps, it’s common to think of your IT infrastructure as either Pets or as Cattle. RPA Process Selection and Design should be thought of in terms of Pets and Cattle as well. What are Pet Servers? Pet servers are often: Highly specialized and few in number Indispensable and cannot tolerate downtime Setup and changed manually by hand Scaled vertically...

I’ve now worked at Blue Prism for ~1.5 years, taking part in one of the fastest growing trends in technology and business transformation: Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Thinking back on my career for 2020, I’ve developed a clear idea of how I would have used RPA to automate operations at a startup that I co-founded in 2015, and how other...

What do the most effective RPA development teams look like? As an RPA consultant, I’m exposed to tons of RPA teams and projects and the best teams do have something in common. The ones that do the best are primarily 70-80% non-technical, with the remaining members having some technical (programming or software development) background. If the development team is primarily...

[Updated Feb, 2020] If you’re wanting to read about the different RPA products and where they stand, you can take a look at various RPA market research reports. There’s four big marketing research reports that are commonly cited in the industry by RPA vendors for sales and marketing reasons: Forrester Research Everest Group Gartner Horses for Sources You’d normally have...