Intelligent Automation: Shaping the Future of Work
Intelligent Automation: Shaping the Future of Work

Intelligent automation is transforming the way businesses operate. It helps drive efficiency and productivity across almost every industry. This is only going to accelerate. Here are the trends you need to watch out for, you never know, they might just fit into your business sooner rather than later.

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Unleashing The Future: Harnessing The Synergy Of AI And Automation
Unleashing The Future: Harnessing The Synergy Of AI And Automation

We’d love to banish buzzwords, but we can’t help using terms like GenerativeAI and automation with increasing frequency, because they really are game-changing technologies. Neither is new, but they’re now evolving at such a rate that it’s hard to see how everyday life won’t be touched by them. So what does that future look like – and how do we make it work?

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The Top 3 Automation Trends For Logistics
The Top 3 Automation Trends For Logistics

Working in logistics can often feel like trying to juggle while riding a unicycle. There are so many things to track and control at any given time it’s actually quite amazing that it works as well as it does.

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Introducing Assisted Automation
Introducing Assisted Automation

As the automation industry continues to grow and evolve, we believe it’s time to reconsider the language we use to describe one of its key components. Tech buzzwords are thrown around with reckless abandon – but we want to seize a very specific term.

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Understanding Citizen Development
Understanding Citizen Development

The hype around citizen development is very real. Many organizations are ready to explore citizen automation and development platforms, but forgetting the hype, what can it actually offer businesses in the real world and how can they put it in place?

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Automation = Customer Satisfaction
Automation = Customer Satisfaction

Customer service automation offers your business the chance to improve customer satisfaction, long-term revenue, as well as employee happiness. See how, here.

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What Is Attended Automation?
What Is Attended Automation?

Attended automation can deliver a better customer experience, save your people time, remove human error, and deliver insight – all in real time.

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5 Best Practices for RPA Success
5 Best Practices for RPA Success

RPA is more than bots and procedures. RPA’s long-term success depends on culture and work habits. Our five RPA best practices will make your automation better.

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RPAs Place In Contact Centers
RPAs Place In Contact Centers

Call centers might just be the perfect place to implement RPA. Cost, quality and customer satisfaction can all be improved with the help of bots.

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Are Your Automation Ethics On Point?
Are Your Automation Ethics On Point?

While automation isn’t new we have seen it shoot up in popularity. It seems a growing wave of intelligent automation is sweeping across industries all over the world. As a next step for the technology, hyper-automation will allow enterprises to automate processes from...

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Why Retail Needs Automation
Why Retail Needs Automation

The retail sector is under extra pressure with supply chain issues and personnel shortages – they must turn to automation for a solution.

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Top 5 Automation Trends in 2022
Top 5 Automation Trends in 2022

These are the top 5 future automation trends of 2022. Improved machine intelligence and increased accessibility – it’s going to be a big year for bots.

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Why Most Businesses Struggle With Automation
Why Most Businesses Struggle With Automation

Why are people so bad at getting automation into their business? It’s pretty simple: they lack the knowledge to do it right. Combine that with a need to chase trends rather than results and it’s no wonder that so much automation falls flat on its face. We’re here today to hold up a mirror to the attitudes that plague so many businesses.

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Software Libraries: Do They Really Work?
Software Libraries: Do They Really Work?

Libraries by their very nature are brilliant resources with so much knowledge and a never-ending subject list that tapping into it all is more than a life’s work.
But, with all that information it’s easy to get lost and even easier to find something that isn’t actually useful to you. Just like the brick-and-mortar outfits, software libraries are much the same. They’re cool and have value at a basic level but beyond that, they begin to struggle.
Here’s where we’re at with them.

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Just How Broken Are Your Processes?
Just How Broken Are Your Processes?

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. That’s a phrase used by everyone and their uncle. But unfortunately, it isn’t often stuck to. We’ve made a business off the back of broken processes, so in some ways, we’re grateful for them – but you definitely shouldn’t be.

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Nice Guys Finish First
Nice Guys Finish First

While we do love spending a little bit of time talking about ourselves, that’s what this is all about right? We also love to shout out the brilliant tech and players in the industry. While we work with a lot of vendors, to be honest, one of our go-to vendors is NICE. Because of that, not that they need the press, we wanted to take some time to talk about why they’re often our vendor of choice.

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Why Planning Is Everything, But Plans Are Nothing
Why Planning Is Everything, But Plans Are Nothing

We live in a world where so many businesses, and ultimately people’s lives, sometimes depend on nothing more than a single line of code. With the recent Log4Shell vulnerability sending large corporations everywhere into a spiral we thought today we would talk about...

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Digital Employee Of The Month
Digital Employee Of The Month

It’s about time we finally address the double standard seen in modern workplaces. And while it’s not usually in our wheelhouse to wade into workers’ rights, we’ve had enough! Ok, we’re being a little facetious… but honestly, people treat bots badly. Robots are your...

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New Year’s Resolutions
New Year’s Resolutions

It’s that time again where we set ourselves goals to live by for the new year. The joy of New Year’s resolutions is that they come round regularly. This means we don’t have to beat ourselves up too much when we’ve dropped them by mid-January. But one resolution we...

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What Will 2022 Look Like?
What Will 2022 Look Like?

Although still challenging, as with 2020, the past year has been one of real positivity. The pandemic has changed the outlook that companies and people have and how they want to work. Part of that has been about taking the boring jobs away from remote workers – to...

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The Real Meaning Behind Customer Success
The Real Meaning Behind Customer Success

We’re not going to gloss over it. We really hate buzzwords. Nothing grinds our gears more than overused words. But (and it’s a big but) we cannot lie (!), customer success is a real thing. In fact, it’s our focus. We care a great deal about our customers and honestly...

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How Do You Know You Need RPA?
How Do You Know You Need RPA?

RPA is too often an afterthought for businesses trying to improve processes. Why? Because most businesses aren’t looking to implement RPA – they just want the outcome. And, more often than not, those businesses that are looking for RPA are looking for solutions rather...

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How Bottlenecks Hurt Businesses
How Bottlenecks Hurt Businesses

At the time of writing, people are queuing up outside petrol stations across the UK — waiting impatiently, for gas. A purchase which usually takes no more than a few minutes has even begun to disrupt, not just consumers, but entire logistics networks, with couriers...

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The Most Dangerous Sentence in Automation
The Most Dangerous Sentence in Automation

Right we’ve lured you in with a baity title (!). Stick with it though, we’re actually taking a look at something you should be wary of. You might have heard these words before, you might even have uttered them yourself. “But we’ve always done it this way”. Those words...

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How To Show People The Opportunities In ‘Change’
How To Show People The Opportunities In ‘Change’

Convincing people to buy into change is no mean feat. As you have probably experienced with your colleagues, friends, and likely yourself – change is the enemy. Or at least that’s how it’s perceived. However, change gives us opportunities, especially in business....

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Automation Balanced with Personalisation
Automation Balanced with Personalisation

People can’t help but do the things they like. But at work, this often comes at the expense of things that need doing! We’re simple creatures – and if we’re presented with a choice between an easy, fulfilling task alongside something dull and difficult, well 9 times...

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Connecting People
Connecting People

Robots can do more than just free up our time to focus on the more important things. They can help tear down the barriers that separate us all as people – either through the ways we interact with the world around us or by improving our ability to tackle tasks. Robots...

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Efficiency & How We See It
Efficiency & How We See It

Businesses want work to be done well, to be done quickly, and to be done cheaply. We can all relate to these drivers from our own businesses as well as what we want to as consumers. To be able to achieve that, we need people to understand, evaluate, and improve upon...

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Nobody Wants To Do Things Twice
Nobody Wants To Do Things Twice

OK, so it goes without saying that people don’t want to redo work. But apart from the knee jerk reaction of ‘No I don’t wanna’, have you ever really thought about the impact of not getting things right the first time? We aren’t just talking about cost and revenue....

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People First, Tech Second
People First, Tech Second

Sometimes it can seem as though companies often look for solutions to their IT problems too quickly – being technology, rather than problem-led. Other times, those tasked with finding a solution to a business problem are not the right people. However, the real problem...

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Why We’re All In On Hyper Automation & AI
Why We’re All In On Hyper Automation & AI

We’re going to tread very carefully in this blog for two reasons. Firstly, we don’t like buzzwords very much but sometimes they are a handy way of grabbing attention to talk about interesting topics. Secondly, we don’t want you to think RPA is going anywhere – but we...

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Citizen Developers: Friends Or Foes?
Citizen Developers: Friends Or Foes?

The idea of empowering people with tools that they can easily access to build RPA is fantastic. We’re 100 % behind anyone learning more about the technology. But (and it is a big ‘but’) the impact of putting someone who has next-to-no training into a position where...

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Tying Things Together: The Joy Of Designing Robots
Tying Things Together: The Joy Of Designing Robots

So your business has identified a process which is repetitive and would benefit from RPA… that’s fantastic and you’ve got our attention! But do you know how you’re going to put it in place? Structure isn’t a very sexy word, but without it, your bot isn’t going to get...

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Resources Ready
Resources Ready

Automation journeys which fail normally do so because of a lack of understanding - so let us help you. With the brilliant folks over at NICE we’ve written a whitepaper – ‘RPA Reality Check’. It gives you all the info you need to get started with RPA. We wanted the...

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RPA: A Bridge to Success
RPA: A Bridge to Success

The classic clash in companies nowadays is between business operations and IT. Thankfully we can say with some confidence that RPA actually can act as a bridge between the two -– unlike some other tech. Business objectives are often worked toward by constant, agile...

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Robots Vs Zombies: More Meaningful Work Is Coming
Robots Vs Zombies: More Meaningful Work Is Coming

The fear we have from film and television is that robots are coming for our lives. In real life, people fear more that they are coming for our jobs. Neither of those things is really true. Robots stand with us as a means to free ourselves from the zombification of...

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Automating Automation
Automating Automation

Wouldn’t it be great if we could leave all the automation to figure itself out? Well, more and more, this is becoming a reality. If that gets your attention, well good! It’s a really exciting part of RPA and something we are keen for people to know more about. Paper...

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Attended RPA: Your Guide To… Anything!
Attended RPA: Your Guide To… Anything!

The acceleration of digital adoption has allowed companies to cope during a global pandemic. We’ll do our best not to overly mention COVID, but its effect on digital practices is monumental. We can already see that the companies who are going to bounce back are the...

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PAteam Webinar – Desktop Process Mining & RPA Success
PAteam Webinar – Desktop Process Mining & RPA Success

 For RPA to succeed and scale in your company, choosing the right processes to automate is vital. Basing this decision on gut feeling or even on conversations with your employees won't deliver the impact you're looking for. Desktop Process Mining, infused with machine...

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The Customer Value Paradox
The Customer Value Paradox

At PAteam, broadly speaking, we engage with two types of potential clients – those that ‘get’ RPA and those that don’t. Much of the trouble we have in showing our customers when to use RPA stems from them thinking of it as a fix all – which just isn’t the case....

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Don’t Fear The Machines
Don’t Fear The Machines

Automation, RPA, and AI just might be the most popular buzzwords in any business right now. But with that popularity comes misunderstanding and the spread of further misinformation. So what really is automation and how important is it for modern businesses? Do we need...

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Leading The Way On RPA
Leading The Way On RPA

PAteam is a global Automation services company focussing on technologies like RPA (Robotic Process Automation), RDA (Robotic Desktop Automation), Intelligent Automation and Hyper Automation in Europe, the Middle East, and North America. We have worked with brands such...

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