HFS Hot Vendor: qbotica

qBotica wants to help enterprises drive future efficiencies using robotic process automation as a starting point. The company was founded in 2017 by technology leaders and technical architects with deep RPA experience. They saw first-hand the power of RPA as a solid foundation for process transformation and wanted to create a specialist firm offering clients a means to harness this potential. From inception, its focus has been on positioning RPA as a practical gateway to intelligent automation and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The nuance here is that there is a big difference between simply implementing RPA and building self-sustaining automation programs that can scale. qBotica leverages its experience to help clients establish and run effective baseline automation programs and then helps them scale to address more complex needs, often requiring additional tools to complement RPA such as optical character recognition (OCR), natural language processing (NLP), and machine learning. These additional resources drive enhanced capabilities with unstructured data, process intelligence, and exceptions management. This is qBotica’s “automation ecosystem” approach, increasingly offered as a challenger model. qBotica offers services across the lifecycle of client needs—consulting, implementation, and management services supported by process discovery and ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)-based service delivery. They are technology agnostic, working across the “big three” RPA software vendors (Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, and UiPath) as well as other established and up-and-coming players. qBotica is a active ecosystem player, regularly contributing accelerators and connectors to the various vendor bot stores and marketplaces.