RPA Is Cool and Totally Alive, No Cap

What will your new job title be…now that "RPA" is dead?

RPA is not dead. AI is the new buzzword thats all. Stop with the negativity. Any skill or language is as important at any point of time be it javascript, angular, java. or any other language. The buzzword is the only thing thats changing.

not sure about the death of RPA, but this channel is certainly dead already

Great video and commentary .. should be mandatory for all EAs

Your videos are entertaining but rather one-sided imo. Seems like you have an axe to grind ...

I do like your own idea and opinions. I just gives you a reason why rpa won’t die. Bc ppl lazy. We lazy to run so we build car. We lazy to hunt so we have supermarket. Coding would not be the same as today. C# get replaced by c++. Java comes out then there is python. In the future coding just a basic writing skill that everyone probably would learn in school. 20 years ago job tilted not including data analysis or data mining. But 2050? Coding always trend to be easy more human languages. Or maybe in the future coding not even existing. There is always something new would impact our lifestyle even for a coder. Once ChatGPT shows its ability to coding. You should understand this. Coder would eventually getting replaced.

What's the Suitable alternative to RPA (uipath) or other companies ?
You know what i meen !

While I want to agree on rpa as a concept dead, 10000+ customers base and growing are being fooled by UIPath to buy and renew automation every year with some associating themselves with UIPath for almost 5 years + just doesn't seem to corroborate. If it was marketing gimmick , people would have seen it in 1st or 2nd year but ,5+ years of association justifies definite need/problem they are solving. back office automation is a big market. I see Banks sticking to it across years. Why would they have grown to a billion dollar plus ARR if it was just a filmy hype, Their stock being overvalued may be a market hype but a billion dollars in revenue in 10 years and growing, does point to market demand

Why would companies like Microsoft invest heavily in Power Automate and power platform if it was hype. Even Satya endorses the same.

From Microsoft to SAP have an intelligent automation solution

We can agree on the hype of it to replace humans completely or it being overvalued that it's 60 billion dollar but there is a definite market for the same

wow love your videos!! Keep going you are going to get a lot more subscribers fast

Phil fersht is not father of RPA...he just a management consultant and might have coined the term RPA...bit technically he didnt made any software or technology which created the base for RPA..so he is not a father of RPA (unless self proclaimed)...i think blue prism makers were the starting point for what RPA is today

Shouldnt they have been delisted for scam?

In (US) English there is catchy phrase - "snake oil", also "snake oils salesman". I guess you can count UiPath as one such instance (of many) in IT field in general. Infinite competition/market-based society inherently must (and will) produce deceptions and false promises :)
Kind of a sad, isn't it ? (think of time/resources swelled)

While I applaud your highlighting of UIPath as a hollow marketing company with outdated technology, there are a ton of misrepresentations in this video:

- Your use of the term RPA to imply UI based automation is exactly why companies like Automation Anywhere are moving away from the term. The term "RPA" is mostly associated with UI based automation, but is really only a fraction of what modern "Automation Platforms" can do. Companies everywhere are still automating processes, and they are reaping significant savings as a result. They use Automation Platforms (like Automation Anywhere and UIPath) to do this. UI automation is only used when there is no native integration in the platform or where software APIs inaccessible.

- You mention the lack of investment by UIPath in their platform, but fail to point out that Automation Anywhere actually re-engineered their entire platform and released a modern, web-based, cloud native architecture at the end of 2019. In fact they are the only major automation vendor to have done so, which is why Automation Anywhere leads the market in terms of ease of use.

- You mention 30-50% of initial automation projects fail. Well, all types of software projects fail. A quick google shows that 55-75% of ERP projects fail, and the stats for CRM are similar. Yet these categories are not dead. The fact is, software projects fail for many reasons, predominantly as a result of human actions (or more likely inaction). This is nothing to do with RPA or any particular category.

- You mention the layoffs that RPA companies undertook, but you fail to point out that this was a pattern across ALL IT companies (as they had grown too rapidly) and occurred at the start of and during the COVID downturn.

- A large percentage of customers will ALWAYS have a small number of bots in production. This is because there are a large number of organisations that are small to medium businesses. In small to medium businesses there is not enough volume to justify automating many processes, or simply not enough complexity in their business.

Great explanation!
I think that RPA is a already dead buzzword, since we got hyper automation, cognitive automation so on... However, automation itself is not even close to be dead. Automation Specialists are being required in many contexts specially if they've some ML skills attached. Gen AI may be able to accomplish cognitive tasks that "rpa" does not. But companies, at least here in south america, are not even close to use LLMs in their daily basis work. Sooooo I think if you code in python and have some knowledge on AI tools and ML you're ok (dunno for how long).