When the industry is still in the initial practice period, everyone is like a flower in the fog, not seeing the truth, Ibushouzhi recently visited the frontline practitioners of RPA, trying to…

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The current RPA is chased by many investors and entrepreneurs, but the technology itself has existed for nearly 20 years. What is the reason for the RPA replay glory, what is its product form and business model, and “the RPA market is infinitely promising.” Still “RPA is dead”?

When the industry is still in the initial practice period, everyone is like a fog, not seeing the truth, Ibushouzhi recently visited the frontline practitioners of RPA, trying to see through three core issues. Clear the RPA market.

When the hammer released the TNT (Touch and Talk) system in May last year, the network was mocking, but some people in the enterprise service industry pointed out that TNT is actually an RPA product. This is the first time that the RPA concept has entered the eyes of ordinary users. At this time, the news that UiParth B round financing valuation has grown rapidly and entered China has also attracted the attention of the capital market.

Incorporating the concept of AI, specializing in the enterprise service track, the market prospect is huge, serving large enterprise customers, the threshold is still very low, which makes investors who pay attention to the enterprise and artificial intelligence track are excited. However, at the time, there were too few RPA companies on the market, and there was no such thing as a large-scale concern. Today, Chinese investors have invested a lot of money in RPA entrepreneurs, and they have successively launched Cyclone, Yunsheng Technology, and UiBot. With the financing of 10 million US dollars, RPA has also taken root in the financial, accounting, telecommunications, energy, manufacturing, logistics and other markets. This is particularly dazzling in the current capital market environment.

Time to call back to 2018, the RPA project that the market can see, only Aliyun code stack, Yisaiqi, Yunzhan technology.

In theory, the current RPA technology can replace all the work that needs manual repetitive operations in the internal software of various industries. However, limited by the industry and specific application scenarios, RPA software needs to be further industrialized and customized to meet market demand. Because of this, the entire RPA market is in an extremely valuable early stage of development.

If every oneThe industry has its own RPA products and platforms. Companies in each industry need a large number of consulting companies or pure SI (system integrators) to develop highly competitive RPA services. This kind of ecological scale imagination is huge, based on this even some people. Speaking “RBA market potential is infinite”, but some people think that “RPA is dead.”

The violent conflicts in these views stem from the inconsistent understanding of RPA and the lack of RPA core values. In the early days of cloud services, SaaS, and PaaS, the market was controversial about related concepts. At the end of the day, Amazon and Salesforce seized the strong customer demand brought by the core delivery model behind the related concepts, and grew into the market. Giant. Similarly, we only need to understand what the core of RPA is and what characteristics it has, in order to prepare for the market trend behind RPA. What exactly is the RPA?

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What exactly is RPA?

Although RPA is a chronological business, the keystrokes exposed in daily life belong to the typical RPA, but the RPA after integration with AI is a new thing, new technology. The definition of RPA under the beginning began to generalize, and the shape is also in rapid evolution.

Compared with Macro, which was rooted in Microsoft Excel in 1994, most of today’s RPA tools are based on the Microsoft .NET Framework’s WorkflowFoundation, integrating OC technologies such as OCR and NLP, and can be weakly coupled (without changing existing software systems). The deployment) form is implemented across software and implements a “zero error rate.” Technically, RPA is no longer a custom function of a single enterprise. In fact, it has grown into a fusion of AI technology, system-level cross-software and hardware, and multi-account services.

  • RPA product form

There are three RPA product forms in the current market: The first one is the enterprise-customized independent RPA software, which can be used by opening the computer and clicking; the second is the platform for accounting, financial and other industry scenarios. RPA products, the client includes a graphical designer, execution environment (robot), the cloud console is the basic AI service and settlement system; the third is the RPA platform that supports the developer’s secondary development, providing the second All features also provide a corresponding development interface for customization.

The first product form has existed in the domestic and foreign markets for nearly 20 years. It is a basic tool commonly used by some labor outsourcing companies, finance, accounting, telecom operators, call centers.