{"id":41074,"date":"2020-07-08T14:44:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T14:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=4035f1728a5b1917f927a5f4c37d1810"},"modified":"2020-07-08T14:44:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T14:44:04","slug":"ibm-buys-rpa-company-wdg-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ibm-buys-rpa-company-wdg-automation\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM buys RPA company WDG Automation"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Sabina Weston<\/a><\/span>
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8 Jul, 2020<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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IBM<\/a>\u00a0has announced its acquisition of WDG Automation, a Brazillian\u00a0software provider specialising in\u00a0robotic process automation (RPA)<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Financial details of the acquisition weren\u2019t disclosed to the public, but the companies said they expect the deal to close in the third quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

IBM\u2019s decision to acquire WDG Automation sees the tech giant continuing its expansion into the\u00a0AI<\/a>-infused automation market, as it looks to provide its customers with the ability to \u201cquickly identify more granular opportunities for automation (…) as well as help ensure consistent and accurate data is being used across all tools and business functions, including customer service, IT, finance, HR, and supply chain\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nRPA technologies have the ability to computerise repetitive tasks, removing them from the human employees’ workload and therefore boosting productivity, as well as general welfare and wellbeing.<\/p>\n

WDG Automation, based in S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 do Rio Preto, Brazil, is a provider of RPA, Intelligent Automation (IA), Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and chatbots. It markets its products at\u00a0business users looking to create automations using a desktop recorder without the need for IT.<\/p>\n

WDG\u2019s software robots are able to run on-demand or by using an automated scheduler, depending on the customer\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s founder and CEO Robson Felix called automation \u201ccrucial in the digital era, as businesses need to perform several repetitive or routine tasks so that employees are able to focus on innovation\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m incredibly proud of the role WDG Automation has played in the RPA market with a unified and integrated platform to help companies in Brazil increase their productivity,” he added.<\/p>\n

WDG\u00a0co-founder\u00a0Kleber Rodrigues Junior said\u00a0that |joining forces with IBM will scale our capabilities to a wider audience, helping companies around the world accelerate their growth on their business transformation journeys”.<\/p>\n

Denis Kennelly, general manager of Cloud Integration at IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software, added: “IBM already automates how companies apply AI to business processes and IT operations so they can detect opportunities and problems and recommend next steps and solutions”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“With today’s announcement, IBM is taking that a step further and helping clients accelerate automation to more parts of the organization, not just to routine, but more complex tasks so employees can focus on higher-value work.”<\/p>\n

The acquisition might signal a shift of priorities for IBM, which recently\u00a0decided to “sunset” its general-purpose facial recognition and analysis software<\/a>\u00a0suite over ethical concerns following a fortnight of Black Lives Matter protests.<\/p>\n

Last week, the company\u00a0unveiled an AI-powered inventory control system<\/a>\u00a0to help businesses optimize their decision-making and build resilient supply chains more effectively. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sabina Weston<\/p>\n

8 Jul, 2020 <\/p>\n

IBM\u00a0has announced its acquisition of WDG Automation, a Brazillian\u00a0software provider specialising in\u00a0robotic process automation (RPA).\u00a0
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