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Critical Capabilities for Robotic Process Automation

Published: 22 August 2022

Summary

As applications and software engineering leaders seek to improve efficiency and integrate enterprise systems, RPA continues to offer a tactical alternative to conventional integration approaches. This research evaluates 15 RPA products based on their ability to support five common use cases.

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Key Findings
  • The robotic process automation (RPA) software market grew by 31% to $2.4 billion in 2021, well above the average worldwide software market growth rate of 16%. The top five vendors account for nearly 66% of the global RPA market.

  • Newer entrants to the RPA market include major integration vendors and large software vendors. Almost all are augmenting screen scraping with API-first automation. Moreover, all established vendors in North America and Europe offer prebuilt UI connectors to the common enterprise platforms.

  • Only 25% of the participating vendors offer full-fledged real-time collaboration features for multiple personas within a fusion team to

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  • Appian
  • Automation Anywhere
  • Cyclone Robotics
  • IBM
  • Laiye
  • Microsoft
  • NICE
  • Nintex
  • Pegasystems
  • Salesforce (MuleSoft)
  • Samsung SDS
  • SAP
  • SS&C Blue Prism
  • UiPath
  • WorkFusion
  • Automation Design and Development
  • Screen Scraping
  • Orchestrator/Control Panel
  • Self Healing Bots
  • Unstructured Data Processing
  • Task Mining and Discovery
  • SDLC and Multipersona Support
  • Serverless Automation and API
  • Hosting and Cloud Capabilities
  • UI Apps Creator For Automation
  • Auto-ML
  • DR and High Availability
  • Security & Compliance
  • Platform Ecosystem
  • Unattended Automation
  • Attended Automation
  • Enable Fusion Teams
  • Automate Document Processing
  • Automation Marketplace

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