Robotic Process Automation Use it to turbocharge your digital transformation Executive Summary Executives are leading their companies on digital transformations to increase competitive advantage—and they’re using an increasingly broad range of technologies to do so. Cloud-?rst, mobile-?rst platforms are popular choices. So are modern software engineering approaches and new tools for knowledge discovery, sharing, and collaboration. Another is robotic process automation (RPA). This Point of View from Blue Prism and Avanade, leaders in RPA technology For many, a key Automation, of course, is not new. and its implementation, explains why businesses worldwide are adopting RPA, how fast they’re doing so and what challenges they see to those implementations. It describes the technical and non-technical considerations in implementing RPA, explains the choices that businesses face, and discusses what to look for in RPA technology and an RPA systems integrator. part of their digital transformations Business process or work?ow automation has been growing for the last decade or more. It now thrives on the desktop as a way to boost the speed and accuracy of workers as they participate in relatively stable, straightforward processes. In new research from Avanade, 92% of IT decision makers surveyed around the globe acknowledged the importance of process automation to their digital transformations. Why? For companies that see the digital journey as a roadmap away from high costs and risks—as well as toward more productivity, scalability and innovation—robotic process RPA is something more. It’s the use of software to mimic the actions a worker would perform on a PC—but at scale. The business processes it automates are highly repetitive, rules-based, and use template-based data. They may also be high-volume or complex. With RPA, businesses can create digital workforces that execute repetitive process steps faster, more accurately and more cost-effectively than can traditional wor