Take your robotic process automation (RPA) to the next level

Through automation, RPA changes the nature of how work gets done within a business. Think of all the repetitive, low-value tasks that employees perform every day. RPA can automate these activities and complete them at a lower cost, with greater accuracy and efficiency. This frees employees to focus on more enjoyable, value-creating work.

Advanced software bots are capable of complicated text interpretation, conversational abilities, and even more complex decision-making through machine learning models. This frees employees of the burden of needing to perform low-value, repetitive tasks, so they can focus on more important, more enjoyable, more value-creating work.

At its core, RPA technology automates structured, rule-based tasks that follow clear, repetitive steps. By reducing errors, working around the clock, and handling a high volume of routine processes, RPA can significantly increase operational efficiency and accuracy while lowering costs.

That said, effective RPA isn’t just about automating a single task or a series of disconnected tasks. To get the most value from RPA, you need to implement it with an approach that considers your business’s entire, end-to-end processes.

To start, your RPA solution should connect with your existing business systems so RPA bots can scale automation on an enterprise-wide level. And to maximize your investment, consider adding advanced capabilities like intelligent document processing (IDP) and process intelligence. With IDP, RPA bots gain cognitive abilities to interpret and extract process-critical data from unstructured content. Process intelligence further enhances RPA by enabling businesses to analyze and visualize workflows in real time and strategically implement bots where they’re needed most.

One of the main reasons RPA is so popular is its versatility: It can be applied to a wide range of business processes across many industries. And since RPA integrates with legacy systems, enterprises can adopt it without disrupting their existing IT infrastructure.

RPA also lets businesses increase process capacity and speed throughput times while substantially reducing process errors and deviations. This provides a quick and high return on investment, especially compared to competing technologies. Finally, RPA allows employees to spend more time completing higher value work.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation (RPA) are separate technologies that complement each other. AI, including generative AI, allows machines to learn from data, reason, solve problems, and perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, RPA, in contrast, simply mimics specific actions, like typing on a keyboard or clicking a mouse.

Combining AI and RPA, however, creates a powerful tool that can interpret and learn, tackle unstructured data, and make context-based choices to automate complex processes.

ABBYY partners with the leading vendors of RPA technology, including Blue Prism, UiPath, and Automation Anywhere. Our low-code, cloud-first intelligent document processing platform—ABBYY Vantage—lets business users equip their bots with the skills they need to intelligently process documents. In addition, ABBYY Timeline provides process intelligence capabilities to analyze workflows and identify opportunities for automation, further enhancing RPA effectiveness.

If you’re interested in learning how Vantage and Timeline can enhance your existing RPA solutions, or if you’d like to start your intelligent automation journey with ABBYY and our RPA partners, contact us today.