Applied Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction For Business Leaders

by Mariya Yao

Most companies have tons of repetitive digital workflows. These workflows can be tedious to complete. Employees responsible for these tasks can easily become bored and inattentive, allowing errors to creep into your operations and your data. Fortunately, these tasks are well-suited for automation by Robotic Process Automation (RPA), which are software robots programmed to perform a specified sequence of actions. Even better, RPA deployment is relatively fast and low risk, so that problematic robots can quickly be removed without detriment to existing systems. Examples of workflows at which RPAs excel include performing regular diagnostics of your software or hardware, creating and updating accounting records (such as payroll), or automatically generating and delivering periodic reports to the relevant stakeholders.