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Task Automation with RPA

Remote Process Automation (RPA) is a typical on-ramp for automating business tasks and processes, especially for small to medium businesses, as well as enterprise departments. The RPA software market remains the fastest-growing enterprise software segment that Gartner tracks, growing at a rate of 38.9% in 2020 (see the Further reading section).

RPA is perhaps the most understandable automation technology because of how the technology interacts with systems to perform automation – by emulating precisely what a human does, using the same interfaces humans do – sometimes called desktop automation. As the RPA field has matured, vendors have sophisticated control centers for team sharing and automation management, rich ...

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