Across some of the world's best-known trade publications, we have consistently contributed our expert insight on the enterprise software market.
Discover the latest articles written by Blueprint's executive team on business process analysis, automation, digital transformation, and more.
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April 19, 2022 Executing the Right Process Improvement Strategy Process improvement has long been top of mind for companies across all industries that want to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and deliver greater value. Process improvement by itself, however, is simply a buzzword. It needs a structural approach to achieve its desired ends. Written by Dan Shimmerman, Blueprint's Chief Executive Officer. |
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April 6, 2022 Insights from Business Process Analytics Linking a better understanding of business processes to reduced costs and improved efficiency may not be new, but the concept has attracted renewed interest in the aftermath of COVID-19 and its repercussions on the labor market. Written by Irina Lunin, Blueprint's Vice President of Research & Development. |
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April 6, 2022 How to Execute the Right Process Improvement Strategies for Your Company Enterprises should apply five analysis techniques to their BPA efforts to realize immediate results and make better business decisions regarding their business processes. Written by Irina Lunin, Blueprint's Vice President of Research & Development. |
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March 14, 2022 Distributors Are Turning to Business Process Analytics Tools for Structure Amid Disruption Recognizing that the average distributor runs thousands of manual, automated, and outsourced processes over hundreds of systems that don’t necessarily work well with each other, BPA defines, documents, and visualizes all of the business processes currently being executed. Written by Tony Higgins, Blueprint's Chief Product Officer. |
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March 14, 2022 Worker Shortages Spurring Interest in BPA At its most basic, BPA enables an organization to discover and understand how work is being done today, how that work is connected to higher-level business objectives, and how to improve those workflows for better quality and efficiency. Written by Dan Shimmerman, Blueprint's Chief Executive Officer. |
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April 1, 2022 Turning to Automation to Deal with The Great Resignation As healthcare organizations move steadily toward hyperautomation, the more mundane, repetitive tasks which weigh down employees will gradually be taken over by automation. Written by Dan Shimmerman, Blueprint's Chief Executive Officer. |
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January 17, 2022 RPA Trends and Opportunities in 2022 Spurred by the success of those that already took the leap, more and more companies are expected to jump onto the migration bandwagon in the New Year in an effort to achieve the returns and scale originally promised by RPA. Written by Tony Higgins, Blueprint's Chief Product Officer. |
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January 6, 2022 What Will 2022 Mean for RPA in the Financial Sector With robotic process automation (RPA) fast becoming the industry norm, more and more banks and credit unions are already taking the next step in their digital transformation: RPA platform migration. Written by Dan Shimmerman, Blueprint's Chief Executive Officer. |
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December 6, 2021 Expect RPA to Continue Exponential Growth in 2022 and Beyond Robotic process automation likely to flourish in service and other sectors as businesses struggle to fill job openings. Written by Dan Shimmerman, Blueprint's Chief Executive Officer. |
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NOVEMBER 30, 2021 Prospects for RPA in Retail in 2022 Retailers believe the biggest issue they currently are facing is prioritizing and identifying in which areas of their business they should use process discovery. Written by Dan Shimmerman, Blueprint's Chief Executive Officer. |
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NOVEMBER 5, 2021 Task Capture is Key to Showcasing RPA's Strengths Robotic process automation is most effective when it is applied to those business processes that showcase its strengths. Written by Tony Higgins, Blueprint's Chief Product Officer. |
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NOVEMBER 5, 2021 Manufacturers Increase Focus on Process Discovery With RPA expanding to new areas of the business, manufacturers experience a disconnect between benefits expected, achieved. Written by Tony Higgins, Blueprint's Chief Product Officer. |
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NOVEMBER 1, 2021 Assessing the State of Process Discovery Process discovery (also called process intelligence or process mining) has become an increasingly important part of the automation strategy for companies. An interview with Charles Sword, Blueprint's Chief Revenue Officer. |
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OCTOBER 20, 2021 While Process Discovery Remains Popular, Expectations Don't Always Match Actual Benefits Many of the benefits organizations anticipated before process discovery deployment don’t necessarily match the benefits they actually realized. Written by Dan Shimmerman, Blueprint's Chief Executive Officer. |
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OCTOBER 13, 2021 Identifying the Best Business Processes for Robotic Process Automation The differences between task capture and process mining software and how they can help CUs with their RPA strategy. Written by Dan Shimmerman, Blueprint's Chief Executive Officer. |
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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 Survey Shows Digital Transformation Driving Process Discovery, Task Mining Implementation Financial services firms are one of the largest users of process discovery and task mining tools according to a new survey conducted by Blueprint. Written by Charles Sword, Blueprint's Chief Revenue Officer. |
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021 The Expected Benefits vs. the Realized Benefits of Process Discovery Many manufacturers are encountering a mismatch between the expected benefits/challenges of process discovery and those that are actually being realized. Written by Tony Higgins, Blueprint's Chief Product Officer. |
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021 Improve Productivity and Lower Monthly Costs with RPA To be effective, RPA must be applied to the business processes that will showcase its strengths. Written by Tony Higgins, Blueprint's Chief Product Officer. |
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021 How Modern Retailers are Effectively Using Technology Before jumping into technology implementation, retailers should start by having their SMEs and process owners identify their high-level processes. Written by Charles Sword, Blueprint's Chief Revenue Officer. |
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SEPTEMBER 6, 2021 Automating the Right Processes: Task Capture vs. Process Mining? Organizations are turning to either task capture or process mining software to help them identify which processes are best to automate, but which technology is best for them? Written by Tony Higgins, Blueprint's Chief Product Officer. |
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AUGUST 6, 2021 A Guide to Continuous Process Improvement via Task-Capture Solutions To have fundamental metrics about processes at their disposal, many manufacturers are turning to task-capture or process-mining software for help. Written by Charles Sword, Blueprint's Chief Revenue Officer.
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JULY 29, 2021 Microsoft's Entry Disrupts Fast-Growing RPA Marketplace Power Automate likely to open door for ease-of-use of robotic process automation by citizen developers. Written by Tony Higgins, Blueprint's Chief Product Officer. |
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JULY 20, 2021 Far-Reaching Impact of Microsoft's Entry into RPA RPA is the fastest-growing enterprise software market, so it’s only natural for a giant and powerful technology provider like Microsoft to get in on the action with the free inclusion of Power Automate in Windows 10. |
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JULY 12, 2021 How Will Microsoft Power Automate Impact the Future of RPA Microsoft’s foray into Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has disrupted the RPA market. What will it mean for RPA current users and vendors? |
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JUNE 17, 2021 Why We Need a Set of Universal RPA Standards Many of the challenges RPA programs are facing result directly from the automation being more complex than initially advertised. |
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JUNE 4, 2021 Guest View: The Time Has Come for RPA Standards Despite all of this momentum behind RPA, one of the greatest challenges across the segment as a whole is the lack of industry standards for the way process automations are specified. |
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MAY 24, 2021 The RPA World Desperately Needs Standards To better understand the kind of incredible impact industry standards can have, look at the example provided by the Portable Document Format, or PDF. |
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MAY 19, 2021 Maximizing Your CU’s Robotic Process Automation Investment Adopt a future-focused strategy that prepares your CU to use technologies that ultimately will shape the future of RPA. |
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APRIL 28, 2021 Despite Setbacks in RPA Implementation, Organizations Find an Exit Door Organizations deploying RPA and industry insiders alike have begun calling for a standard way to describe what each process to be automated does in a way that all automation tools can understand. |
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APRIL 16, 2021 The Integral Role AI Plays in Intelligent Automation The level of growth intelligent automation (which combines AI and RPA) is likely to see in 2021. |
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APRIL 16, 2021 Establishing a Gold Standard for RPA To better understand the benefits of establishing a set of RPA standards, look at what the PDF did. |
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APRIL 15, 2021 What Credit Unions Need to Know About Robotic Process Automation Why robotic process automation (RPA) has caught on with so many institutions around the country. |
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APRIL 2, 2021 C-Suite Spotlight: Blueprint's Charles Sword The growing trends in RPA, common pitfalls for companies deploying RPA, and how a dynamic design environment ould benefit RPA users going forward. |
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APRIL 1, 2021 Taking RPA to the Next Level Despite widespread deployment by processing companies, more than half of all users are failing to realize the lower costs, higher productivity and improved customer — and employee — experiences robotic process automation promises to deliver. |
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MARCH 9, 2021 How Robotic Process Automation Will Change in 2021 The worldwide pandemic helped spur unprecedented growth in the adaptation and use of RPA, but manufacturers are now struggling to scale these automation initiatives. |
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FEBRUARY 11, 2021 Maintenance Keeping RPA from Delivering Promised ROI By tracking KPIs, manufacturers can increase transparency and their chances for RPA success. |
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FEBRUARY 8, 2021 Robotic Process Automation Recent growth of RPA is impressive. What has to happen next in order for technology to reach its full potential. |
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JANUARY 27, 2021 New Solution Allows Financial Institutions to Easily Switch RPA Tools Banks, credit unions, and others are only beginning to scratch the surface when it comes to the profound changes automation and RPA will bring to the financial services industry.
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