RPA


 * Dutch: RPA (NL)
 * See also: Citizen development, Bots
 * Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_process_automation

Introduction

 * UiPath, one of the vendors of RPA software says: Work is history.
 * People don't want to do boring tasks anymore that can be done by robots.
 * See their short movie on: https://www.uipath.com/resources/automation-demo/the-story-of-work
 * RPA stands for Robotics Process Automation.
 * In the nearby future it will be very easy (see citizen development) to automate boring tasks.

Recent developments

 * Microsoft: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomtaulli/2020/03/02/microsoft-goes-all-in-on-rpa-robotic-process-automation/#7b2e93c35900
 * “Everybody can be a developer,” said Charles Lamanna, who is the CVP of the Citizen Developer Platform at Microsoft. “It takes less than 30 seconds to sign up. You can then create a bot in a few minutes.”
 * For RPA to be transformative, it has to be on everybody’s desk.

Index

 * RPA platforms