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IBM Jumps Into RPA Market With Automation Anywhere 

  • Writer: amalabdreamz
    amalabdreamz
  • Oct 15, 2018
  • 3 min read

INTRODUCTION

IBM and Automation Anywhere (AA) today announced a collaboration (RPA), integrated for a work tool for repetitive task-based work, with the IBM Portfolio. of digital process automation software, which includes IBM Business Process Manager and Operational Decision Manager. For AA, the partnership is a validation of its solid position in the RPA market, as shown in the Forrester Q1 RPA wave. For IBM, the partnership for customers uses the AA RPA platform to create software robots that execute tasks within larger business processes managed by IBM software. Here is our take.


IBM can add intelligence to the AA RPA platform

RPA works very well today, imitating the pulsations of human keys and mouse movements, where all decisions must be explicitly programmed in the script. The result is very easy. Watson will be relevant in the future, but as a first step, RPA will benefit from the IBM business rules engine (Decision Manager) or the rules integrated in the BPM platform. But so interesting, IBM’s content analysis, if it’s part of the collaboration, we can allow AA to keep up with the unstructured RPA intelligence of Workfusion and other RPA competitors moving quickly in that direction. The use cases of the RPA that are combined with the content are not structured in the digital media of chatbot and will be based on AI.


Additional market validation for RPA

RPA is beyond the need for market validation. Forrester has been writing about the market for several years, but the entire market is small. Some of the biggest players, such as BluePrism, have less than 20 million revenues. Forrester’s estimate is in AA in the range of 25 to 35M. IBM entering the aid market.


Evidence of consolidation of BPM and RPA in the future.

RPA is more than a little threatening to BPM. The BPM market is not growing, the RPA market does. Sometimes, RPA sees the expected savings from a BPM project because it came a year before the BPM effort. And there is courtesy. The RPA Bots appear as tasks that humans have previously gone through in the BPM process map. To modernize and organize complex processes, you need BPM or case management support. RPA does not cut it much.


A more practical analytical approach for IBM

The IBM / AA announcement is important from the perspective of the RPA market, but the small potatoes in the general IBM empire. But it may indicate a subtle change. Watson, after four years, has not delivered the expected income, not to mention some well-publicized project failures in the data and budget data teams so that a productive state can not be achieved. But for the IBM credit, we have addressed some of the most difficult problems our planet has.


But why not focus on less attractive but highly productive problem areas, as well as alleviating the low-value tasks of humans working in cubicles? This is where IBM got its start after a basic tabulation. The AA RPA, with IBMs Decision Manager, BPM, and content analysis can be immersed in the traditional IBM backyard, where the power of RPA is nowadays. It is in the “business” that refers mainly to “operations” that run as shared services, such as purchases, supply chain, human resources and customer service. To a lesser extent, it includes sales, marketing and functions within independent business units. What do these groups have in common? They depend on many IBM applications and technology. And with these more practical automation building blocks, data communication systems


 
 
 

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