Cost savings turned out to be illusory, so where next for RPA?

John Leonard
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The first wave of RPA may be over but it may have a big future in self-service IT

The first wave of RPA is over, expectations having peaked in 2018. By October 2019 Romania's UiPath, which had been valued at $7 billion, had laid off 11 per cent of its 3,000 employees, a downward...

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