Industry Insider

In today’s world, enterprise organisations increasingly rely on digital automation to deliver the greatest level of efficiency and customer experience. A catalyst to an organisations digital transformation journey has been robotic process automation (RPA), creating a new class of digital workers that replace or augmented many office employee jobs increasing efficiency, scale, and speed at which work can be done.

Information accidentally revealed by lawyers working for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is said to be "the clearest public evidence of coordination between the campaign and Russians." The error revealed prosecutors "apparently believe that Manafort shared internal Trump polling data with the suspected spy Konstantin Kilimnik during the campaign."

Artificial intelligence has been the domain of science fiction for decades — think HAL, the computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey” — but as many people know, it’s actually established well-developed and growing roots in modern-day life. Amazon’s Echo, Netflix’s recommendation engines, Facebook’s facial recognition technology, auto-braking on cars, it’s all based on the ability to analyze massive amounts of data in near real-time and being able to mimic human behavior based on the results.

Demand for Risk and Compliance experts in Australia has risen sharply over the last twelve months, and will continue to increase in the year ahead, according to an industry study conducted by TAS, a solution provider for Australia’s financial services sector.

Excitement about the potential for robotic process automation (RPA) to transform the workplace shows no signs of subsiding in 2019. What are the significant RPA trends and developments that can be expected this year? IDM asked Rob Mills, Vice President, Australia & New Zealand at Blue Prism for his perspective. Mills has a lengthy background in enterprise content, collaboration and information governance, and is looking forward to the arrival of true intelligent automation, what Blue Prism calls connected-RPA.

Finance teams lack the digital skillset to embrace the latest advancements in artificial intelligence, causing a negative impact on revenue growth, according to a new study from the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (the Association) and Oracle.

​More than 80 local government authorities across NSW faced a difficult technical challenge in 2016 following the NSW state government mandate to force council amalgamations. The challenge was threefold in the case of the amalgamation of the former Manly, Warringah and Pittwater Councils into the new Northern Beaches Council.

Is Robotic Process Automation (RPA) more than just a tool to mimic the actions and keystrokes of people executing manual processes? According to a recent Forbes report its actually a “Gateway Drug” to AI and Digital Transformation.

Accounts Payable (AP) is often the first initiative when it comes to Business Process Automation projects, and it’s easy to understand why.  AP directly effects how much money leaves an organisation, it’s a business process typically fraught with manual steps, and it’s a process that crosses almost every industry so vendors tend to focus on it first. 

It is estimated that as many as 1 billion invoices are exchanged between businesses in Australia on an annual basis; however only 10-15% of those invoices are e-invoices, with the rest remaining paper-based. So, why has the adoption of e-invoicing been so slow in Australia and APAC? What opportunities does e-invoicing offer businesses in Australia?