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experts and the people that will lead the automation journeys forward within each organisation , and ensuring what you ’ re developing is actually delivering a return on investment and making sure that people invest heavily in the delivery .”
Following the COVID-19 outbreak , Duddridge reiterates that the organisation is truly focused on helping solve real problems , not “ selling potential ”. “ Recent events have kickstarted digital transformation journeys for many organisations , with remote working , increased demand , or asudden burst in volumes pushing a lot of organisations to think about automation . This is something that UiPath is looking to help where it can , to drive innovation for business continuity .”
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UIPATH ’ S GUIDING PRINCIPLES
• A robot for every person
• Pioneering an ‘ automation first ’ mindset liberating office employees from boring mundane tasks to focus on added-value work ;
• The UiPath mission is to provide the best RPA technology platform to enable the ‘ automation first ’ enterprise ;
• Free access to training for all RPA roles ( also the first RPA company to provide a free download version of its product ).
THE BEST STRATEGY
With the benefits and challenges of adopting an ‘ automation first ’ mindset , Duddridge reflects on the industry and explains that the strategic approach for an effective adoption of automation has changed in recent times . “ It used to be very varied in terms of how automation initiatives were created ,” he comments . “ An example of this is someone within the finance team deciding that vendor invoice management could be automated . That finance organisation could use Optical Character Recognition ( OCR ) to retrieve the pertinent data from a document to break the back of 80 % of its document ingestion and make its operations more agile . These kinds
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