The Case for Robotic Process Automation

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a clone? Someone to sit at your desk in the office to do all the tedious, mundane, and monotonous work? The reality of getting a robot to do tasks that were previously done by humans is now made possible by robotic process automation.

Robotic process automation is not a new concept. For years, people have been programming scripts to download data from websites, macros to automate spreadsheets, and recorders to record mouse-clicks. Whatever could be done by a computer could be fulfilled somehow or other in the hands of a highly skilled programmer. However, it is only recently where all these capabilities have been built into a product. And to top it ...

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