Bot Nirvana | AI & Automation Podcast
Nandan Mullakara
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Bot Nirvana is a podcast on all things Intelligent Automation. We cover RPA, AI, Process Intelligence, Process Mining, and a host of other tools and techniques for intelligent automation.
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Nov 21, 2023
Shreekant Mandvikar
Shreekant Mandvikar is an Intelligent Automation expert who has helped 20+ customers on their Intelligent Automation journey. He currently leads Intelligent Automation initiatives at Ally Financial.
In this chat, we discuss his Intelligent Automation journey and learnings, interesting use cases, tracking value, Gen AI, and more.
More information and Links: More about Shreekant : shreekantmandvikar.com Connect with Shreekant: linkedin.com/in/shreekant-mandvikar Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Oct 6, 2023
Andy Thurai
Andy is VP and principal analyst at Constellation Research.
He is an accomplished IT executive having served in leadership roles at major companies like IBM, Intel, and Oracle. He is an expert in AI, AIOps, Observability, Cloud, and other enterprise software. I have read many of his articles in publications such as Forbes and Harvard Business Review.
In this chat, we talk about the emergence of ChatGPT, Microsoft vs. Google AI, AI ethics, and the future of AI.
More information and Links: Connect with Andy: linkedin.com/in/andythurai HBR article Andy co-authored: hbr.org/2022/09/ai-isnt-ready-to-make-unsupervised-decisions Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Sep 25, 2023
Workfellow
Workfellow is an AI-powered process intelligence solution designed for uninterrupted process analysis and operational excellence.
In this chat with CEO Kustaa Kivelä, we talk about Kustaa’s journey and the frustrations that led to him founding Workfellow. We also talk about the options available in the process intelligence space, and the impact of generative AI.
More information and Links: Connect with Kustaa Kivelä: linkedin.com/in/kustaakivela Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Sep 14, 2023
Sarah Burnet (KYP ai)
Sarah is a distinguished industry analyst advising enterprises on Intelligent automation technologies, sourcing, and market trends. She is a frequent speaker, an active blogger, and is named in Computer Weekly's Most Influential Women in Technology Hall of Fame.
In this chat, we talk about the impact of AI on automation, Process mining, Task mining, and what KYP AI calls Productivity mining. We discuss a few emerging use cases with Generative AI and Automation.
More information and Links: Connect with Sarah: linkedin.com/in/sarahburnett Sarah’s book: sarah-burnett.com/the-autonomous-enterprise Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Aug 16, 2023
Gurdeep Singh (Tryg)
Gurdeep Singh is the Automation Center of Excellence (CoE) and Tools innovation lead at Tryg which is Scandinavia's largest insurance company.
He is Lean Six Sigma black belt certified and is passionate about improving and optimizing processes by engaging with businesses.
In this podcast, we chat about his Lean RPA CoE and his learnings in establishing the same. We delve into LLMs and AI use cases for the insurance industry. He shares many practical tips for everyone on their automation journey. Let’s listen in.
More information and Links:
Podcast video: youtu.be/_63ytHFYUok Connect with Gurdeep: linkedin.com/in/gurdeep-singh-chopra-05276388/ Links to LEAN articles by Gurdeep: Lean RPA the what, why, and how Identifying LEAN’s 8 Waste in Intelligent Automation Adopting 15 Steps of DMAIC ( Six Sigma) in a Process Mining Project
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Jun 15, 2023
Nanonets
Nanonets is an AI-powered document processing platform with built-in automation features. Nanonets uses advanced machine learning, and deep learning techniques to extract relevant information from unstructured data.
In this talk, with CEO Sarthak Jain, we discuss Nanonet’s doc processing & automation capabilities, document processing in general, and its future.
Let’s listen in.
More information and Links: Connect with Sarthak Jain: linkedin.com/in/jainsarthak or twitter.com/sarthak_jain Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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May 23, 2023
SilkFlo
SilkFlo helps you to capture, manage, engage, and continuously measure your Intelligent Automation opportunities.
In this chat with CEO Alexander Leonida, we talk about the key challenges in Intelligent Automation - Poor visibility, Governance, and Culture. Alex shares his solutions and frameworks to address these.
More information and Links: Connect with Alexander Leonida: linkedin.com/in/acleonida SilFlo: silkflo.com Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Apr 30, 2023
Max Ioffe (WESCO)
Wesco is a FORTUNE 500® company with more than $21 billion in annual sales and a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services, and supply chain solutions. The Company employs approximately 20,000 people.
In this talk with Maxim Ioffe, the Director for the Global Intelligent Automation COE at WESCO, we discuss the details of Wesco’s Intelligent Automation program and the learnings along the way that you can use to succeed on your Automation journey.
More information and Links: Connect with Max: linkedin.com/in/maxim-ioffe Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Mar 25, 2023
Sidney Madison Prescott, MBA
Sidney is a digital transformation leader with vast experience in intelligent automation. She was most recently the Global Head of Intelligent Automation for Spotify. She has built and scaled Automation Centers of excellence at Spotify and BNY Mellon, E-Trade, and Fiserv. She is the co-author of the book “Robotic Process Automation using UiPath StudioX: A Citizen Developer’s Guide to Hyperautomation”.
In this chat, we talk about her experience scaling intelligent automation programs with people, culture, and technology. We also talk about recession-proofing an organization with Digital workers, Future skills, and more.
More information and Links: Connect with Sidney: linkedin.com/in/sidneymadisonprescott Book: Robotic Process Automation using UiPath StudioX Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Feb 24, 2023
Kalyana Bedhu
Kalyana is currently the AI/ML Principal at Fannie Mae. He has extensive experience in AI and has been the head of AI at Ericsson and also the Engineering leader for AI at Microsoft.
In this episode, we talk about the current excitement around AI, Generative AI, ChatGPT, and how it works. We also talk about current and emerging AI use cases.
Let us listen in.
More information and Links: Connect with Kalyana: linkedin.com/in/kalyanabedhu Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Feb 12, 2023
Turbotic
Turbotic's platform supports enterprises in monitoring, managing, and optimizing Intelligent Automation. In this episode, we talk to Alex Hubel, the Chief Strategy Officer and co-owner of Turbotic. Before Turbotic, Alex headed up Ericsson's global Automation & AI organizations.
We explore how he set up the Automation COE at Ericsson and how they scaled it resulting in millions of hours saved across all parts of the company. We discuss how these learnings led to the formation of Turbotic and why Automation optimization is important for a successful Intelligent Automation program.
More information and Links: Connect with Alexander Hübel: linkedin.com/in/alexander-hübel-17176b2 Turbotic: www.turbotic.com Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Jan 26, 2023
Deepak Karwal
Deepak is the author of the book "The Automated Enterprise" - Digital Reinvention through Intelligent Automation. He is a veteran in the Automation space and has led multiple Intelligent automation initiatives across industries.
In this chat, we talk about how you can bridge the gap between automation and digital transformation through Digitization, Digitalization, and Transformation.
More information and Links: Connect with Deepak: linkedin.com/in/dkarwal Deepak's book: The Automated Enterprise: Digital Reinvention Through Intelligent Automation Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Dec 12, 2022
Accelirate
Accelirate provides end-to-end Intelligent Automation managed services from their US, Colombia, and India delivery centers. Their services include Robotic Process Automation (RPA), cognitive technologies such as AI and machine learning, natural language processing, and smart OCR.
In this chat, with CEO Ahmed Zaidi, we discuss the evolution of Intelligent Automation, Accelirate Managed Services, the future of Digital automation, and more.
More information and Links: Connect with Ahmed Zaidi: Linkedin.com/in/ahmedzaidi Accelirate: accelirate.com Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Nov 10, 2022
Shaun Dawson
Shaun has been involved with RPA since the early days. He co-founded Virtual Operations one of the earliest companies in this space and has since been involved in various roles. He currently heads the consulting delivery for UiPath.
In this chat, we talk about the challenges he sees in the space and solutions for the same. We talk about IT systems vs Automation, Opportunity identification, Messaging, and more.
More information and Links: Connect with Shaun: linkedin.com/in/shaundawson/ Check out Shaun's latest articles: uipath.com/blog/shaun-dawson Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Oct 25, 2022
Ricardo Henriques
Ricardo is a Business Transformation Leader at EDP Portugal. He leads their Intelligent Automation program with more than 100 bots that are driven by Process mining, RPA, and AI.
In this chat, we discuss how Ricardo and his team established a federated CoE model with a "Center of Enablement" model that enables "Centers of Automation". The Intelligent Automation program has more than 100 bots Mainly driven by Process mining, RPA, and AI.
More information and Links: Connect with Ricardo: linkedin.com/in/rhhenriques/ Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Sep 28, 2022
Smart Layers
Smart Layers is an Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) solution that enables you to intelligently process documents with AI that can learn from fewer data sets. The cloud-based platform takes documents (invoices, purchase orders, claims, etc.) and enables you to automate business processes.
In this episode, co-founder Lila Benhammou talks about document processing with AI smart layers, IDP challenges addressed by Smart Layers, and how you can integrate this IDP into your Digital Automation workflows.
More information and Links:
AI Research mentioned in the podcast: aircconline.com/csit/abstract/v12n12/csit121220.html Connect with Lila Benhammo: linkedin.com/in/lila-benhammou/ Smart Layers: smartlayers.io Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Sep 17, 2022
Kavita Ganesan
Kavita has extensive experience working with Artificial Intelligence (AI) including multiple patents.
The Founder of Opinosis Analytics, she has authored the book "The Business Case for AI" where she shows you how to prepare for AI, jumpstart a successful initiative, and track the results.
So, in this chat, we discuss the frameworks you can use to prepare, jumpstart and track an AI initiative.
More information and Links: Connect with Kavita: linkedin.com/in/kavita-ganesan/ Download the first 3 sample chapters and buy her book: kavita-ganesan.com/the-business-case-for-ai/ Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Aug 25, 2022
RoboRana
Robo Rana provides Intelligent Automation Services in Europe and is based out of Belgium.
In this episode, RoboRana Managing partner Mathias Fransen talks about the practical aspects of implementing Intelligent Automation, and how organizations can evolve Digitally using end-to-end automation.
More information and Links: Connect with Mathias Fransen: linkedin.com/in/mathias-fransen-1b15396 RoboRana: roborana.be Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Jun 25, 2022
EvoluteIQ
EvoluteIQ has an end-to-end Enablement Platform for Hyperautomation. It brings together iBPMS, AI, ML, RPA, and data processing in a single integrated low-code platform.
In this chat, with CEO Sameet Gupte, we discuss EvoluteIQ's history, how they are enabling holistic automation, Changing mindsets, Platform pricing, and more.
More information and Links: Connect with Sameet Gupte: linkedin.com/in/sameet-gupte-3421a71/ EvoluteIQ : evoluteiq.com Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Jun 21, 2022
Doug Shannon
Doug Shannon is a leader in the Intelligent Automation space. He has over two decades of IT experience with companies like Chevron, CISCO, and more. He is a Bot Nirvana community member and has an interesting take on all things RPA & Intelligent Automation.
So, In this chat, we talk about Automation roadmaps, CoE, Best practices, Citizen development, and more.
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More information and Links: Connect with Doug Shannon: linkedin.com/in/doug-shannon Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Jun 12, 2022
Ian Barkin
Ian Barkin was the co-founder of Symphony Ventures which was an early RPA consulting firm. It was sold to SYKES for $69M Dollars in 2018. He has since co-authored the book "Intelligent Automation", and is the author of many LinkedIn Learning courses on RPA, IA, and Process Mining.
A well-known influencer, investor, and advisor, he shares his thoughts on the different facets of Intelligent Automation. Let's listen in!
More information and Links: Connect with Ian Barkin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianbarkin/ Ian's Process Mining course: https://lnkd.in/gwTuMzWD Intelligent automation book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KFLY51Y All courses by Ian: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/instructors/ian-barkin Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Jun 12, 2022
Prashant (Hanover)
Today we have Prashant Dinkar Hinge. He is the Vice President of Automation and Employee Experience at The Hanover Insurance Group. Hanover is a leading provider of property and casualty insurance in the United States.
Prashant and the team have built an Intelligent Automation Practice at Hanover that is centered around AI for improving Employee experiences. In this chat, we discuss Hanover's automation program, the role of AI and RPA, Best practices, Unstructured data, and more.
More information and Links: Connect with Prashant: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashanthinge/ Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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May 28, 2022
Brian (Dentsu)
Brian Klochkoff is the EVP and Global Head of Automation at Dentsu international, a large advertising services company.
At Dentsu, Brian has been defining and implementing Dentsu's global automation program alongside a team that includes a team of Data Scientists, Solution Architects, Engineers, and 100+ Citizen Developers. We talk about Dentsu's automation program, citizen development best practices, their technology ecosystem, and more in this chat.
More information and Links: Connect with Brian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-klochkoff Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Apr 27, 2022
AWS Intelligent Automation
Intelligent Automation on Amazon Web Services (AWS) includes Process assessment, Low-code/ No-Code, RPA, and AI-ML. These workloads can be deployed on the AWS cloud along with other core AWS services like storage, compute, notification, and more for your process automation.
In this episode, we chat with Madhu Raman, the Worldwide Head for Intelligent Automation at Amazon Web Services (AWS) about the AWS Intelligent Automation workloads, the future of RPA in the cloud, and AWS's exciting vision for the space.
More information and Links: Connect with Madhu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/madhuraman/ Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Apr 20, 2022
Amol (DuPont)
Amol Rajamane leads the Digital Automation Center of Excellence (CoE) at DuPont, a large specialty manufacturing company based out of Wilmington, USA.
Amol and the team have built a truly remarkable Automation program with processes and technologies worth emulating. So, let us listen in as Amol describes the various aspects of their Automation journey.
More information and Links: Connect with Amol: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amolrajamane/ Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Mar 29, 2022
Zeitworks
Zeitworks is an Automated Process Discovery platform that leverages machine learning to discover, analyze, and improve your processes.
In this chat with CEO Jay Bartot, we discuss how Zeitworks Process discovery enables holistic process improvement and augmented automation.
More information and Links: Zeitworks: https://www.zeitworks.com/ Connect with Jay Bartot: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jay-bartot/ Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Dec 15, 2021
Robocorp (Part 2)
In this episode, we are happy to welcome back Antti, the CEO of Robocorp. Here is the prior chat with Antii.
Robocorp as you all know is an open-source automation stack. The team has been adding some impressive features and we chat about that. We also talk about the general trends in the Automation market.
Some of the topics we discussed in this episode:
* Automation Ops (DevOps in RPA) with lean & agile infrastructure
* Work data management: a new advanced feature
* Container based runtime environments, Self hosting options
* Using VS-code IDE to develop bots
* Citizen development, new Robocorp automation studio
* Trends in the automation space: Cloud, Embedded RPA, Opportunities
More information and Links: Robocorp Website: robocorp.com Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Sep 24, 2021
AutomationEdge
AutomationEdge is a Hyperautomation platform with RPA-as-a-Service, API Connectors, Chatbots, ETL, and more.
They are a truly cloud-based RPA service that offers transparent consumption-based pricing including a free plan.
In this chat with Siva Juturi, head of sales and operations for AutomationEdge, we discuss the history of the company, its RPA-as-a-Service offering, chatbots, ETL, and much more.
More information and Links: Interview video: https://youtu.be/lY2swAEqTQs AutomationEdge: https://automationedge.com/ Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Aug 26, 2021
KYP AI
KYP (Know Your Potential) helps you understand your processes and how these balance with people and technology dimensions.
It gives you an end-to-end view of your organization's effectiveness and harnesses AI to help you prioritize data-driven automation opportunities.
In this chat, we discuss about the evolution of KYP, and how they differ by providing actionable insights quickly to build your augmented workforce of the future!
More information and Links: KYP: https://www.kyp.ai/ Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Aug 19, 2021
TagUI
Tag UI is a free and open-source RPA from AI Singapore. It is a command-line automation software that uses a simple human language like syntax to build your workflows.
Over a period of time, thanks to an ever increasing community, it has multiple plugins and extensions to run TagUI from Python, C#, Microsot word, excel and more!
In this podcast, we discuss the history of Tagui, where it is now and where they like to be in the future.
More information and Links: TagUI homepage – https://makerspace.aisingapore.org/do-ai/tagui TagUI GitHub page – https://github.com/kelaberetiv/TagUI More details about TagUI: https://nandan.info/tag-ui-open-source-rpa/
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Jul 15, 2021
Blueprint
Blueprint provides digital process design solutions that can help you identify, design and manage your automations.
In this chat with CRO Charles Sword, we explore how you can go beyond the usual documentation like PDDs to a more data centric approach with what they call as Digital Blue prints. These Blue prints can then be used to create the initial code for the top RPA platforms.
Let us listen in and get to know more about this platform.
More information and Links: Blueprint Software Systems: https://www.blueprintsys.com/ Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Jun 15, 2021
AI & RPA with Tom Taulli
Tom Taulli is the author two books on RPA and AI - The Robotic Process Automation Handbook and Artificial Intelligence Basics. He is also a contributor on Bloomberg, Forbes and BusinessWeek. He has been in technology space for long and is also as investor in the space.
His books and articles are easy to understand as he writes for a wider non-technical audience. So, In this chat, we explore the history and nuances of AI, RPA, and what the future holds from an Automation and technology perspective.
More information and Links: Tom Taulli: http://www.tomtaulli.com/ Tom's books on amazon Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Apr 19, 2021
Skan AI
Skan.ai is an AI-powered Process Intelligence platform.
They are building a platform that can help you understand what they are calling the "telemetry of work". Using AI, they observe day-to-day tasks being performed across your organization to build a data-driven meta-model of work that can enable informed decisions including better automation.
In this chat, we discuss about the company, and how they are building this meta model of work that could be a revolutionary first step in improving the way we work.
More information and Links: Skan: https://www.skan.ai Process Intelligence discussion featuring Skan: https://youtu.be/He25ZrUEx_8 Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Apr 8, 2021
FortressIQ
FortressIQ is a process intelligence company.
They are building a platform that can continuously monitor your processes and provide insights for optimization, automation, security, governance, and more so that you can digitally transform at scale!
In this chat, we discuss with Founder and CEO Pankaj, the evolution of FortressIQ, their vision for Process intelligence, and what FortressIQ is building.
More information and Links: FortressIQ: fortressiq.com FortressIQ demo: https://youtu.be/i-kOqMoMin4 Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Feb 12, 2021
OpenBots
OpenBots is an Open source RPA and AI company.
OpenBots provides a free and open-source RPA Tool kit. There are NO Bot Licenses, you can download their tools and get started. They also have an academy where you can learn and get certified on OpenBots.
In this chat, we discuss about the OpenBots history, the array of products, the future of open-source RPA and much more.
More information and Links: Open Bots: openbots.ai Open Bots Academy: academy.openbots.ai Top 5 Open source tools Visit Nandan on the web at nandan.info
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Jan 22, 2021
NICE RPA
NICE is a 1.6-Billion-dollar company with a portfolio of software solutions that includes RPA. Within the RPA space, NICE is known for their Contact center automation especially with their attended automation bot - NEVA.
In this podcast, NICE RPA CEO Oded Karev shares with us the 18-year history of NICE RPA, and how NICE is building a better future with people first, easier, smarter, and state-of-the art automation solutions.
More information and Links: About NICE RPA: botnirvana.org/tools/nice/ NICE RPA: www.nice.com/rpa NICE RPA Trial: www.nice.com/rpa/free-trial Visit Nandan on the web at: nandan.info
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Dec 11, 2020
Pascal Bornet
A conversation on the book "Intelligent Automation" with Pascal Bornet.
Pascal is a key influencer in the Intelligent Automation space. He is passionate about Intelligent automation and has over 250 thousand followers on Linkedin. A senior executive with more than 20 years of experience, he has led the "AI and Automation" practices for Mckinsey and EY.
We spoke to him on a wide variety of topics from his new book "Intelligent automation" and how he sees the space evolving. He shares how Intelligent Automation can be useful to:
* Save 10M plus lives per year
* Double global budgets in health and education by saving more than 10+Trillion USD
* Work less, refocus on more meaningful activities that energize us and make us more human
Intelligent automation book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KFLY51Y
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Nov 2, 2020
Catalytic
Catalytic is a no-code/low-code, cloud-based platform that connects people, data, and systems. It is one of the easy-to-use DPA software automation tools in the market.
We talk with co-founder Sean Chou about the platform, how it is different from RPA, their community version, customizing the platform and more. Enjoy!
More information and Links: Catalytic Website: www.catalytic.com Bot Nirvana website: botnirvana.org Visit Nandan on the web at: nandan.info Video with Catalytic demo: https://youtu.be/Lh2iBzUe-t4
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Oct 15, 2020
Jiffy AI
This is an interesting conversation with Babu Sivadasan (CEO at Jiff.ai), where we discuss about Jiffy's unique socially responsible innovation combined with Hyperapps.
Jiffy.ai is an app-based automation platform. These apps or hyper apps as Jiffy calls them, uses a low-code approach to unleash the power of RPA and AI for enterprise automation.
More information and Links: Jiffy Website: Jiffy.ai Bot Nirvana website: botnirvana.org Visit nandan on the web at: nandan.info Video with Robocorp demo: https://youtu.be/9GtoD7xkfEA
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Aug 2, 2020
Robocorp
Robocorp is an Open Source RPA built on top of the popular open-source automated testing framework - Robot Framework project.
The tool has three components:- Robocode Lab - environment for software robot development.- Robocloud - Cloud-based Orchestrator.- Robohub- learning materials and documentation
More information and Links:Robocorp Website: robocorp.comBot Nirvana website: botnirvana.orgVisit nandan on the web at: nandan.infoVideo with Robocorp demo: https://youtu.be/HZOWz_x_i3s
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Aug 2, 2020
Open RPA
Open RPA is an easy to use RPA tool with drag-drop interface like mainstream RPA tool vendors.
In this show, we talk to Allan about the History of Open RPA, How Open RPA compares with other RPA, Security, and other aspects of the tool.
More information and Links: Open RPA Website: openrpa.dk Bot Nirvana website: botnirvana.org Visit nandan on the web at: nandan.info Video with Open RPA demo: https://youtu.be/o8xfwXXJ3Y0
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Aug 2, 2020
Automation Hero
Automation Hero is an AI-centric Automation tool. The Intelligent automation platform aims to provide you with all key automation capabilities: - AI/ML - RPA - ICR - Process Mining - Human in the loop
More information and Links: Automation Hero Website: automationhero.ai Bot Nirvana website: botnirvana.org Visit nandan on the web at: nandan.info Video with Open RPA demo: https://youtu.be/G5CBco5dqhA
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