Tom Thaler
Director Product Management at Software AG
Tom is also responsible for the ARIS SaaS Editions, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Task Mining.
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Lots of bots? Use an RPA center of excellence
Making the jump into robotic business process automation can be scary. So, if you decide to go big into RPA - leveraging the use of “lots of bots” to cross-functionalize, optimize and automate everything – you can scare away even the most ambitious of cross-functional teams. Once you try to work across departments, you’ve gone from a linear straightforward implementation to a… -
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Should IT be involved with your RPA program?
You can manage your robotic process automation (RPA) project on your own... right? RPA, or intelligent process automation, has become so prolific, so user-friendly - almost plug-n-play - that you can leverage readymade tools and launch projects fast, without having to worry about code, programming, or software development. At best, you’ll have a process analysis platform for your Center of Excellence, and any of your business… -
Process Management
Is RPA taking over the world?
Emotive words like “bot” and “automation” can make you shudder in terror, with visions of machines taking over the world or snooping on you at work. Yet, automation – or to be precise, “robotic process automation (RPA)” - is essential to process efficiency. Getting buy-in for an RPA project might just be the hardest thing to do, even though it is one of the most enterprising… -
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How to Cover the Costs of RPA
Finding value in a robotic process automation project is relatively easy if you pick the low-hanging-fruits first. Quick wins can be gained by focusing on closing integration gaps, where APIs are missing, or by automating highly repetitive and time-consuming tasks. Many RPA initiatives fail because the value achieved doesn’t cover the cost of gathering the process knowledge - and then…
