Category Archives: robotic process automation

Blue Prism looks to partners to expand robotic process automation with AI

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Blue Prism helped coin the term robotic process automation (RPA) when the company was founded back in 2001 to help companies understand the notion of automating mundane business processes. Today, it’s releasing updates to that platform including an updated marketplace for exchanging connectors to extend the main product, and in some cases, adding a layer of […] Continue reading Blue Prism looks to partners to expand robotic process automation with AI→

Rise of the Machines: A New World of Identity Governance

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It may not be unfolding exactly as predicted in the Terminator movies, but the rise of the machines is upon us. How do you protect and govern robots and other machines in the age of AI and IoT? Here are three areas of focus for identity governance.
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RPA startup Automation Anywhere nabs $300M from SoftBank at a $2.6B valuation

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The market for RPA — Robotic Process Automation — is getting a hat trick of news this week: Automation Anywhere has today announced that it has raised $300 million from the SoftBank Vision Fund. This funding, which values Automation Anywhere at $2.6 billion post-money, is an extension to the Series A the company announced earlier […] Continue reading RPA startup Automation Anywhere nabs $300M from SoftBank at a $2.6B valuation→

‘Software robot’ startup UiPath expands Series C to $265M at a $3B valuation

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UiPath, a startup that works in the growing area of RPA, or robotic process automation — where AI-based software is used to help businesses run repetitive or mundane back-office tasks, to free up humans to tackle more sophisticated work — has raised money for the third time this year. The company is today announcing that […] Continue reading ‘Software robot’ startup UiPath expands Series C to $265M at a $3B valuation→

UiPath confirms $153M at $1.1B valuation from Accel, CapitalG and KP for its “software robots”

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 Last week, we reported that UiPath, a startup out of Romania building AI-based services for enterprises in the area of robotic process automation (RPA) — helping businesses automate mundane tasks in back-office IT systems — was about … Continue reading UiPath confirms $153M at $1.1B valuation from Accel, CapitalG and KP for its “software robots”→

UiPath raises $30M to build ‘software robots’ for internal business tasks

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Programmers working on a problem. The world is awash with bots these days — applications the run either partly or entirely using natural language processing, machine learning, computer vision and other artificial intelligence technologies to help consumers ask and answer questions, buy things and get other stuff done. In the enterprise equivalent, a company that is building something akin to this for large… Read More Continue reading UiPath raises $30M to build ‘software robots’ for internal business tasks→