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RPA
Take your robotic process automation (RPA) to the next level
Enhance and extend your RPA capabilities to process complex documents, extract valuable insights, and optimize end-to-end workflows.
Equip your robots with the skills to understand content
Robotic process automation (RPA) is a technology that uses software robots to automate repetitive manual tasks traditionally done by humans. RPA software, often called a robot or simply a bot, can perform routine and repetitive tasks such as data entry and be programmed to execute keystrokes, mouse movements, and other actions.
While traditional RPA excels at handling basic, rule-based tasks, bots can also be enhanced with AI and smart technologies like natural language processing (NLP), pattern recognition, and automated learning to automate more complex processes. When paired with an intelligent document processing (IDP) solution, RPA bots can be upskilled to read and understand complex, unstructured documents, extract important data, and make informed decisions.
Why robotic process automation (RPA)?
Reduce costs
By reducing manual labor and improving accuracy, RPA can execute more transactions in less time while helping you reduce costly human errors, rework costs, and regulatory fines.
Accelerate digital transformation
RPA lets you make rapid, noninvasive process improvements, with scalable solutions that help your business adapt quickly to new challenges and opportunities.
Empower your team
Free your knowledge workers from repetitive tasks, so they can focus on more high value, intellectually stimulating activities related to their expertise.
How ABBYY complements RPA software
ABBYY helps maximize your RPA investment with intelligent document processing (IDP) and process intelligence capabilities. IDP equips your RPA bots with the intelligence needed to understand and process everything from simple, structured documents like tax forms to complex, unstructured ones like lease agreements. Process intelligence technologies measure the performance of your RPA investment.
Discover the best opportunities for RPA
RPA requires a significant investment in the planning and design phase. ABBYY helps make sure that you are selecting the smartest opportunities for automation with the ABBYY Timeline process intelligence platform. With process mining and task mining technologies, businesses can analyze processes to spot bottlenecks, pinpoint the best opportunities for automation, and predict future outcomes of technology investments. Once RPA is implemented, Timeline measures process performance to ensure continuous improvement.
Expand RPA capabilities
RPA can offer tremendous productivity benefits for businesses, provided that their robots have structured, digital data to work on. But what about unstructured content? Many manual processes that are good candidates for RPA involve reading, classifying, and extracting large amounts of data for processing from content such as PDFs, emails, forms, and document images. Since software bots cannot understand data, intelligent document processing provides robots with the skills to process documents automatically.
Maximize your RPA investment
With the combination of RPA and IDP, you can extend process automation to a wide variety of processes and types of content. The ABBYY Marketplace features a rich collection of document processing models, assets, and connectors that are designed to enhance document understanding for various RPA processes. There are “skills” for specific industries such as finance, accounting, transportation, and insurance—and new skills from ABBYY and our partners are added every month. You can easily enhance your RPA solution by adding document skills one at a time to automate increasingly complex processes.
Create customized models
To automate complex, business-specific processes, you need the flexibility to create custom tools. ABBYY’s low-code IDP solution provides you the flexibility to design and deploy customized document skills, without requiring technical expertise. This empowers non-technical employees to contribute meaningfully to your company’s digital transformation and unlock the full potential of RPA.
Keep improving
For sustained success and continuous improvement, it’s essential to have real-time process monitoring and ongoing analysis to adapt to system changes and optimize performance. ABBYY Timeline delivers this by continuously tracking and refining processes, ensuring long-term efficiency and keeping your operations ahead of the competition.
Robotic process automation—Use cases
Banking & financial services
Enhance process performance and profitability in customer onboarding, trade finance, and know your customer (KYC) processes.
Insurance
Automate manual tasks in insurance processes such as claims processing, policy administration, and forms processing.
Healthcare
Elevate the patient experience by optimizing processes like scheduling, billing, and patient registration.
Transportation and logistics
Simplify data entry, order management, and invoice processing by automating transportation and logistics workflows.
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RPA frequently asked questions (FAQs)
How does RPA software transform organizations?
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.
What are the important capabilities of RPA technology?
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.
Why are so many enterprises implementing RPA?
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.
What is the difference between RPA and AI?
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.
Is RPA the same thing as cognitive automation?
No, RPA and cognitive automation work quite differently. RPA is great for handling repetitive tasks, while cognitive automation helps organize and structure data, making it easier for RPA to incorporate it. By combining these two technologies, businesses can expand the range of processes RPA can perform to take their automation to a higher level.
How can business get started with RPA?
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.
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