Quick overview of #RPA to demystify the emerging technology that's gaining tremendous momentum within F1000 businesses eager to reduce costs, improve processes, de-risk efforts and unleash people to focus more of their time on "Super Human" work (i.e. Creativity, Innovation, Insights to Actions etc).

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Robotic Process Automation (RPA):
Harvesting a Competitive Advantage
08.13.18

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Purpose/Intent
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is foundational to Digital
Transformation as the technology enables companies to
embrace a ”Digital Workforce” to improve their operations
by embracing leading edge technologies.
The purpose of this slideshare is to demystify RPA as it’s
critical that “business people” understand the potential and
implications of the technology and its role in realizing a
company’s long-term goals.
Due to the abstract and intangible nature of RPA, it can be
challenging to explain to a non-technical audience but
hopefully this slideshare will do the trick!

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“What is RPA?”
(Digital Workforce)
An unofficial definition…
“Robotic Process Automation is the technology that allows anyone to
configure computer software, or a ‘robot’ to emulate and integrate
the actions of a human interacting within digital systems to execute a
business process.”
“RPA robots are capable of mimicking many – if not most – human
user actions. They log into applications, move files and folders, copy
and paste data, fill in forms, extract structured and semi-structured
data from documents, scrape browsers, and more.”
“Essentially, any high-volume, business-rules-driven, repeatable
process qualifies for automation.”
- U I Pa t h . c o m

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“Why Should
You Care
About
RPA?”
F o u n d a t i o n a l t o D i g i t a l T r a n s f o r m a t i o n a s
h a r v e s t i n g t h e p o t e n t i a l o f y o u r “ D i g i t a l
W o r k f o r c e ” i s a b o u t m o r e t h a n j u s t c o s t
r e d u c t i o n a n d p r o c e s s i m p r o v e m e n t s , i t ’ s
a b o u t i n c r e a s i n g t h e i m p a c t
p e o p l e c a n h a v e o n t h e b u s i n e s s
b y i n c r e a s i n g t h e i r f o c u s o n t h e
“ s u p e r h u m a n ” a s p e c t s o f t h e i r
w o r k .
E m b r a c i n g R o b o t s a k a “ y o u r d i g i t a l
w o r k f o r c e ” i s n ’ t a n “ i f ” b u t a “ w h e n ” a s
” T h e E n t e r p r i s e R P A m a r k e t i s g r o w i n g
a t a C A G R o f 6 5 % , f r o m n a s c e n t i n
2 0 1 6 t o $ 3 b i l l i o n i n 2 0 2 1 . L i k e l y
h i g h e r . B y 2 0 2 1 , F o r r e s t e r e s t i m a t e s
t h e r e w i l l b e m o r e t h a n 4 m i l l i o n r o b o t s
d o i n g o f f i c e a n d a d m i n i s t r a t i v e w o r k a s
w e l l a s s a l e s a n d r e l a t e d t a s k s . ”
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RPA Benefits A n u n a t t e n d e d a u t o m a t e d s o l u t i o n
t h a t w o r k s 2 4 / 7
R P A w o r k s w i t h t h e e x i s t i n g I T
l a n d s c a p e
A r o b o t i s 1 / 1 0 t h o f t h e c o s t o f a n
o n - s h o r e F T E + 1 / 3 r d o f a n o f f -
s h o r e F T E
D o u b l e - d i g i t r e d u c t i o n i n e r r o r r a t e s
R o b o t s c a n b e t r a i n e d b y e x i s t i n g
b u s i n e s s u s e r s
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A u t o m a t i o n a c c u r a c y e n s u r e s
r e d u c e d o p e r a t i o n a l r i s k
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Common
Processes
Executed by
Robots
S e n d o u t c o m m u n i c a t i o n s a n d
n o t i f i c a t i o n s
C o n n e c t d i s p a r a t e a p p l i c a t i o n s
M a i n t a i n i n f o r m a t i o n c o n s i s t e n c y
a n d q u a l i t y
M o n i t o r a n d r e p o r t i n f o r m a t i o n f r o m
m u l t i p l e s y s t e m s
R e c o n c i l e d a t a a c r o s s m u l t i p l e
a p p l i c a t i o n s
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Key
Considerations
I m p l e m e n t i n g R P A w i l l h a v e
i m p l i c a t i o n s f o r t h e o r g a n i z a t i o n a l
s t r u c t u r e a n d c u l t u r e . T h i s m e a n s
c o m p a n i e s w i l l n o t j u s t a d d b o t s ;
t h e y w i l l a l s o r e d e s i g n h o w t h e
o r g a n i z a t i o n o p e r a t e s . T h i s w i l l
l e a v e c o m p a n i e s t o t h i n k c a r e f u l l y
a b o u t h o w t h e y w i l l r e d e p l o y s t a f f
o r c h a n g e t h e i r c u r r e n t w o r k f l o w
a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e .
C o n s i d e r R P A a l o n g - r a n g e
c a p a b i l i t y t h a t c a n b e e m b r a c e d
i n i t i a l l y b y e s t a b l i s h i n g a s e l f -
f u n d e d a u t o m a t i o n c a p a b i l i t y .
I t i s c r u c i a l t o r e c o g n i z e t h a t t h e
b e n e f i t s o f R P A a r e o n l y t r u l y
p o s s i b l e w i t h a l o g i c a l
i m p l e m e n t a t i o n p l a n b a c k e d b y a
t h o r o u g h g o v e r n a n c e f r a m e w o r k a n d
s t r a t e g y .
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9. Alec Coughlin
Senior Director BD – Head of Financial Services
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