How is Robotic Process Automation adoption changing? What about data privacy approaches? Tie-ins to AI tools? Experts share RPA issues to keep on your radar screen
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tool adoption has soared during the past couple of years. If anything, the pandemic gave organizations added motivation to automate in general – especially around mundane tasks, the type that are in RPA’s sweet spot.
Gartner recently reported that spending on RPA software will top $1.5 billion this year and continue to grow by double-digit percentage terms for the foreseeable future. Deloitte has previously projected that RPA will hit nearly universal adoption in the business world at some point in 2023. There are lots of other lofty stats and anecdotal evidence that tell a similar story.
Don’t expect that story to change in the new year. Gartner, for example, expects spending on RPA software to grow nearly 20 percent in 2021.