Since the World Wide Web came around in the 1990s, the role of a web developer has become more critical, busier and in higher demand. Especially as technology develops at an exponential rate, developers desperately need a solution that will ensure they have the appropriate tools they need to create and maintain websites – from the technical aspects all the way to content.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) was once the revolutionary answer to this. When RPA was introduced, developers gained the ability to automate different procedures and work functions with digital workers – also known as bots. This alleviated many developers from the monotonous tasks that had previously bogged them down. In fact, according to a study from SmartSheet, it’s estimated that workers save six or more hours a week when automation is implemented – giving them the ability to pivot to more strategic or purposeful tasks.
Unfortunately, this original version of RPA – Gen1 RPA, as we call it at Robocorp – is no longer cutting it.
The Outdated Solutions Causing Issues for Developers
First and foremost, Gen1 RPA often leaves users frustrated due to a complex combination of proprietary tools and antiquated development and deployment experiences. These issues also lead to inefficient digital workers that break down easily and are hard to scale. A recent study from Forrester suggests that only 52% of enterprises that have launched RPA initiatives have been able to progress beyond their first 10 bots.
The inability to scale and utilize these digital workers properly can often be attributed to the broken bot syndrome. Simply put, broken bot syndrome prevents developers from quickly pinpointing issues and solving errors within bots as they occur. When this happens, developer teams have to take extra time out of their day to locate and resolve the issues. In fact, in a recent study, Pega found that 87% of Gen1 RPA bots fail. That’s a lot of time out of developers’ days to find and fix broken digital workers.
Secondly, Gen1 RPA is unnecessarily expensive. With upfront, license-based pricing and high infrastructure costs, customers often pay too much for what they’re actually using. Research by DataRails showed that inefficient processes and dysfunctional reporting costs US businesses a staggering $7.8 billion a year.
Fortunately, there is a solution that can help developers progress beyond these issues and gives them access to top-notch open source technology without making their company overpay for bots that don’t meet their needs: Gen2 RPA, a better, faster, and more cost-effective automation solution than its predecessors.
The New Automation Tool Driving Developer Success
Gen2 RPA includes advancements in parallel processing, the ability to rapidly pinpoint issues, the use of a programmatic approach to solving UI-based automation limitations, the use of the cloud, and more. With this updated RPA solution, teams are able to create, maintain, and scale bots that can interact with all levels of any application stack, increase efficiency and utilize a cloud-native SaaS platform to securely operate and govern automations.
Further, Gen2 RPA helps to solve the broken bot syndrome by providing full control of digital worker action for developers and automation teams as well as detailed logs. This allows developer teams to quickly identify the exact location of broken bots and step in to resolve the issue. Ultimately, Gen2 RPA gives developers back substantial time to focus on more important work.
Gen2 RPA users also spend significantly less money on bots than Gen1 RPA users. With Gen2 RPA, consumers avoid upfront licensing costs and only pay for what they use due to consumption-based pricing. While few RPA suppliers provide consumption-based pricing, it’s a great option due to flexibility and lack of risk. Further, it allows developers to build automations in an optimal way, running on as many machines as they want, while also giving them the opportunity to ramp up consumption over time, rather than having to commit up-front.
As the role of developers becomes increasingly more important with the exponential growth of technology and the internet, ensuring they have the most efficient tools to do their job well is imperative. Gen2 RPA provides developers with a clear advantage over Gen1 RPA as it not only creates an elevated experience for businesses with more accessible and understandable features but also gives developers more time in their day to drive innovation and success in a fast-paced industry.
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