Bot Nirvana | AI & Automation Podcast

Doug Shannon is a leader in the Intelligent Automation space. He has over two decades of IT experience with companies like Chevron, CISCO, and more. He is a Bot Nirvana community member and has an interesting take on all things RPA & Intelligent Automation. So, In this chat, we talk about Automation roadmaps, CoE, Best practices, Citizen development, and more. Watch the video: More information...

Ian Barkin was the co-founder of Symphony Ventures which was an early RPA consulting firm. It was sold to SYKES for $69M Dollars in 2018. He has since co-authored the book "Intelligent Automation", and is the author of many LinkedIn Learning courses on RPA, IA, and Process Mining. A well-known influencer, investor, and advisor, he shares his thoughts on the different facets of Intelligent Automati...

Today we have Prashant Dinkar Hinge . He is the Vice President of Automation and Employee Experience at The Hanover Insurance Group. Hanover is a leading provider of property and casualty insurance in the United States. Prashant and the team have built an Intelligent Automation Practice at Hanover that is centered around AI for improving Employee experiences. In this chat, we discuss Hanover's aut...

Brian Klochkoff is the EVP and Global Head of Automation at Dentsu international, a large advertising services company. At Dentsu, Brian has been defining and implementing Dentsu's global automation program alongside a team that includes a team of Data Scientists, Solution Architects, Engineers, and 100+ Citizen Developers. We talk about Dentsu's automation program, citizen development best practi...

Intelligent Automation on Amazon Web Services (AWS) includes Process assessment, Low-code/ No-Code, RPA, and AI-ML. These workloads can be deployed on the AWS cloud along with other core AWS services like storage, compute, notification, and more for your process automation. In this episode, we chat with Madhu Raman , the Worldwide Head for Intelligent Automation at Amazon Web Services (AWS) about...

Amol Rajamane leads the Digital Automation Center of Excellence (CoE) at DuPont, a large specialty manufacturing company based out of Wilmington, USA. Amol and the team have built a truly remarkable Automation program with processes and technologies worth emulating. So, let us listen in as Amol describes the various aspects of their Automation journey. More information and Links: Connect with Amol...

Zeitworks is an Automated Process Discovery platform that leverages machine learning to discover, analyze, and improve your processes. In this chat with CEO Jay Bartot , we discuss how Zeitworks Process discovery enables holistic process improvement and augmented automation. More information and Links: Zeitworks: https://www.zeitworks.com/ Connect with Jay Bartot: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jay-b...

In this episode, we are happy to welcome back Antti, the CEO of Robocorp. Here is the prior chat with Antii. Robocorp as you all know is an open-source automation stack. The team has been adding some impressive features and we chat about that. We also talk about the general trends in the Automation market. Some of the topics we discussed in this episode: Automation Ops (DevOps in RPA) with lean &a...

AutomationEdge is a Hyperautomation platform with RPA-as-a-Service, API Connectors, Chatbots, ETL, and more. They are a truly cloud-based RPA service that offers transparent consumption-based pricing including a free plan. In this chat with Siva Juturi, head of sales and operations for AutomationEdge, we discuss the history of the company, its RPA-as-a-Service offering, chatbots, ETL, and much mor...

KYP (Know Your Potential) helps you understand your processes and how these balance with people and technology dimensions. It gives you an end-to-end view of your organization's effectiveness and harnesses AI to help you prioritize data-driven automation opportunities. In this chat, we discuss about the evolution of KYP, and how they differ by providing actionable insights quickly to build your au...

Tag UI is a free and open-source RPA from AI Singapore. It is a command-line automation software that uses a simple human language like syntax to build your workflows. Over a period of time, thanks to an ever increasing community, it has multiple plugins and extensions to run TagUI from Python, C#, Microsot word, excel and more! In this podcast, we discuss the history of Tagui, where it is now and...

Blueprint provides digital process design solutions that can help you identify, design and manage your automations. In this chat with CRO Charles Sword, we explore how you can go beyond the usual documentation like PDDs to a more data centric approach with what they call as Digital Blue prints. These Blue prints can then be used to create the initial code for the top RPA platforms . Let us listen...

Tom Taulli is the author two books on RPA and AI - The Robotic Process Automation Handbook and Artificial Intelligence Basics. He is also a contributor on Bloomberg, Forbes and BusinessWeek. He has been in technology space for long and is also as investor in the space. His books and articles are easy to understand as he writes for a wider non-technical audience. So, In this chat, we explore the hi...

Skan.ai is an AI-powered Process Intelligence platform. They are building a platform that can help you understand what they are calling the "telemetry of work". Using AI, they observe day-to-day tasks being performed across your organization to build a data-driven meta-model of work that can enable informed decisions including better automation. In this chat, we discuss about the company, and how...

FortressIQ is a process intelligence company. They are building a platform that can continuously monitor your processes and provide insights for optimization, automation, security, governance, and more so that you can digitally transform at scale! In this chat, we discuss with Founder and CEO Pankaj, the evolution of FortressIQ, their vision for Process intelligence, and what FortressIQ is buildin...

OpenBots is an Open source RPA and AI company. OpenBots provides a free and open-source RPA Tool kit. There are NO Bot Licenses, you can download their tools and get started. They also have an academy where you can learn and get certified on OpenBots. In this chat, we discuss about the OpenBots history, the array of products, the future of open-source RPA and much more. More information and Links:...

NICE is a 1.6-Billion-dollar company with a portfolio of software solutions that includes RPA. Within the RPA space, NICE is known for their Contact center automation especially with their attended automation bot - NEVA. In this podcast, NICE RPA CEO Oded Karev shares with us the 18-year history of NICE RPA, and how NICE is building a better future with people first, easier, smarter, and state-of-...

A conversation on the book "Intelligent Automation" with Pascal Bornet . Pascal is a key influencer in the Intelligent Automation space. He is passionate about Intelligent automation and has over 250 thousand followers on Linkedin. A senior executive with more than 20 years of experience, he has led the "AI and Automation" practices for Mckinsey and EY. We spoke to him on a wide variety of topics...

Catalytic is a no-code/low-code, cloud-based platform that connects people, data, and systems. It is one of the easy-to-use DPA software automation tools in the market. We talk with co-founder Sean Chou about the platform, how it is different from RPA, their community version, customizing the platform and more. Enjoy! More information and Links: Catalytic Website:  www.catalytic.com Bot Nirva...

This is an interesting conversation with Babu Sivadasan (CEO at Jiff.ai), where we discuss about Jiffy's unique socially responsible innovation combined with Hyperapps. Jiffy.ai is an app-based automation platform. These apps or hyper apps as Jiffy calls them, uses a low-code approach to unleash the power of RPA and AI for enterprise automation. More information and Links: Jiffy Website: Jiffy.ai...

Robocorp is an Open Source RPA built on top of the popular open-source automated testing framework - Robot Framework project. The tool has three components:- Robocode Lab - environment for software robot development.- Robocloud - Cloud-based Orchestrator.- Robohub- learning materials and documentation More information and Links:Robocorp Website: robocorp.com Bot Nirvana website: botnirvana.org Vis...

Open RPA is an easy to use RPA tool with drag-drop interface like mainstream RPA tool vendors. In this show, we talk to Allan about the History of Open RPA, How Open RPA compares with other RPA, Security, and other aspects of the tool. More information and Links: Open RPA Website: openrpa.dk Bot Nirvana website: botnirvana.org Visit nandan on the web at: nandan.info Video with Open RPA demo: https...

Automation Hero is an AI-centric Automation tool. The Intelligent automation platform aims to provide you with all key automation capabilities: - AI/ML - RPA - ICR - Process Mining - Human in the loop More information and Links: Automation Hero Website: automationhero.ai Bot Nirvana website: botnirvana.org Visit nandan on the web at: nandan.info Video with Open RPA demo: https://youtu.be/G5CBco5dq...