Hot Vendors in Robotics Process Automation, 2017

The demand for productivity and rapid automation has created the emergence of the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) market. The Hot Vendors in the emerging RPA market are addressing these needs in an incremental and growing fashion, but there is significant confusion about the real capabilities of RPA vendors. There is the promise of a migration path from simple automation of human tasks to Artificial Intelligence workers. While today we see the introduction of intelligence into RPA via machine intelligence, we are a ways off from independent and autonomous agents/bots. However, most vendors are developing architectures, execution environments partnerships, and control mechanisms for managing groups of bots.