RPA Causing Organizations to Rethink Business Workflow

April 26, 2017

For many, the idea of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) might conjure images of large automated assembly line welders and pickers. But RPA actually refers to software robots or applications that replicate human interaction with a user interface on a computer system. Historically, process automation has addressed the execution of the most rote tasks, such as scraping data files for import instead of manual entry.

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