What is RPA/IA ?

A term becoming very common and popular yet uncommon in today’s IT or digital world is RPA. RPA stands for Robotic Process Automation. In a nutshell, creating processes that programmatically instruct a machine to perform manual and repetitive tasks based on a set of rules and logic is RPA. A good example of this can be a process from an accounting department where certain data needs to gathered from multiple systems, accountants need to perform set action on data to make a summary report whose values are then entered into the final target system. Data extraction, gathering, manipulating excel are one of the many few applications of RPA. When we add ML and AI to this, the term IA is born. IA, that stands for Intelligent Automation, is when you want to enable the digital workers running these RPA processes to be capable enough of identifying documents, making decisions and applying ML algorithms to be intelligent workers that are not just reliant on rule based decisions.