Today UiPath announced a comprehensive rebrand and shifted its strategy away from its traditional focus on RPA and into the broader enterprise automation space—few firms of this size ($1B+) attempt such a feat. But we …

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2023 Tech Predictions

Predictions are fun to write and must always be taken with a grain of salt; even so, they always look much more authoritative and impressive when put into the chart form. So we did that.

Technology that automates repetitive tasks and cost-cutting go hand in hand, so with a looming recession, it’s logical to expect RPA tools to do well. Overall, they are doing well, but in recent conversations with buyers, systems integrators, and resellers, things are not going as well as they should be.

This was a bullish briefing from Blue Prism. SS&C paid $1.65 billion, so we expected nothing less than a moon shot effort. Of course, the proof will be in the pudding, as a lot of product integration promises were made and there is still much work to do here. It’s also hard to imagine that this is the last acquisition SS&C will make. Will the portfolio grow even further with a process intelligence/mining addition on the horizon?

microsoft process mining

Microsoft recently acquired the processing mining vendor Minit. We looked closely at Minit a little while back, and you can read our report on the company and its technology here. In our estimation, this is one of the best small acquisitions Microsoft has made in quite some time.