Quanton's World of Business Process Automation

Mid-August Quanton formally announced the first event in our DX Seminar series. Taking place on September 27th in Auckland, the event is designed to give innovative business leaders the practical knowledge they need to hero the conversation for Robotic Automation within their organisations. 

With a focus on Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and the emerging opportunities of Intelligent Process Automation, we are excited to begin officially introducing the speakers who will be sharing their knowledge and experience at the September event, starting with Anthony Scott, Chief Intelligent Automation Officer (CIAO) for Australia and New Zealand at illion. 

Quanton has been officially announced as finalists for three categories in the Westpac Business Awards: Best Emerging Business, Excellence in Marketing and Excellence in Strategy and Planning.

Quanton is excited to announce DX Seminar: Robotic Process Automation. The inaugural event in Quanton's seminar series will give business leaders vital information to address the immediate opportunity of Robotic Process Automation and the emergence of Intelligent Automation.

Quanton is excited to announce the addition of UiPath to our technology offering. UiPath, alongside Blue Prism, was re-affirmed in The Forrester Wave™: Robotic Process Automation, Q2 2018 as two of the leading RPA technologies globally.

Since Quanton first introduced Robotic Process Automation to the New Zealand market in 2016, local demand has begun to expand rapidly.

Organisations are rapidly moving towards Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and looking at the horizon for the future opportunities of AI and other advanced technologies as a means to enable digital transformation.

This idea was supported entirely by Phil Fersht, CEO and Chief Analyst at HfS Research when he said “RPA has breathed new life into business operations by speeding up processes, increasing access to crucial data and digitising workflows. However, as this capability become the norm, further value must be realised by integrating software robots into emerging AI platforms.”

The risk of choosing the wrong technology is that an RPA programme will fail to scale, fail to deliver benefit or being abandoned.

According to Mary C. Lacity and Leslie P. Willcocks, in their book Robotic Process Automation and Risk Mitigation, in 2016 about 39 tools were being sold as “RPA” and about 120 tools were being sold as some form of cognitive automation and directly state that “because of the hype and confusion in the marketplace, clients risk choosing the wrong tool(s), too many, or bad tool(s).

When assessing and considering Robotic Process Automation organisations will face a range of internal barriers which can directly affect the adoption process. This week we discuss four barriers which we see commonly arising in New Zealand businesses. 

Over the last two weeks, we discussed Robotic Process Automation Myths and Selecting the Right Processes for RPA.

Deploying Robotic Process Automation can seem deceptively simple with limited transformational pain and so this week we want to address some of the typical risks associated with Robotic Process Automation programmes.