The RPA market consists of a mix of new, purpose-built tools and older tools that have added new features to support automation, some of which were originally business process management (BPM) tools.

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Business process automation should be considered by every business — not only because ...

Business process analysis (BPA) is a methodology that helps organizations deeply examine internal processes to find opportunities for improvement. BPA helps to identify processes that can be made ...

In 2018, Cognilytica released a report on the Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) market. (Disclosure: I’m a principal analyst with Cognilytica). This report discusses the evolution of business ...

Processes and process automation ... such as copying data over from system A to system B. The immediate business value is ... which is typically based on log file analysis, process events ...

But not every business process is a good fit for automation, so it's incumbent upon companies to determine which processes are best suited to automation and which ones are best handled by humans.

An investment in business process automation is one of the fastest ways to improve efficiency and productivity across every department: sales, service, marketing, commerce, IT, human resources ...