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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In the 60 years since the Design Automation Conference (DAC) was founded, the world has evolved from highly specialized, building-sized computers to digital technologies that power every aspect of our lives in countless form factors.

Along the way, whether it was SPICE, high-level description languages, CAD breakthroughs, artificial intelligence workloads, smart phones or autonomous vehicles, the foundations of future innovation have been laid out at DACs annual gatherings. This year, you have a chance to participate in history, as DAC gathers for the 60th time to celebrate its storied past and look, as ever, to the future.

DAC, the premier event devoted to the design and design automation of electronic chips to systems, call for contributions is now open. The 60th DAC will be held at Moscone West Center in San Francisco, CA, from July 9 -13, 2023. DAC will co-locate with SEMICON West 2023, which is being held July 1113 at Moscone North and South halls.

You have the opportunity to share your knowledge and technical expertise with a diverse audience eager to incorporate new insights to help them deliver innovation into areas including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), high-performance computing, mobile technologies, automotive and more.

The DAC 2022 Technical Program Committee, led by the 60th General Chair, Jrg Henkel, of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Vice Chair, Vivek De of Intel, Technical Program Chair, Renu Mehra of Synopsys and Technical Program Co-chair, David Pan of the University of Texas is soliciting high-quality submissions on design research, design practices and design automation for the following tracks and sessions:

Submissions are also being sought for special sessions, poster sessions, and works-in-progress. For more information visit submission topics categories.

DAC has thrived for 60 years because its the industrys only conference that brings together diverse groups technical and academic researchers, government policy makers and industry designers and developers, said Jrg Henkel, 60th DAC General Chair. It doesnt matter whether youre fresh out of college, working at a government agency or a veteran at systems design: DAC is where you can share and debate ideas, results and designs, network and collaborate to invent tomorrow. And youre not going to want to miss the 60th DAC.

Looking back, when DAC was formed, GM and IBM had just introduced the DAC-1 mainframe (Design Augmented by Computer). Eight years later the first single-chip microprocessor came from Intel, which didnt exist in 1963. The 1980s saw the first laptop (Epson HX-20), first cell phones (Motorola), and lithium-ion batteries invented. Digital audio and video recorders came in the 1990s, the smart phone in the 2000s. Over the decades, papers accepted to DAC have contributed to these inventions and detailed advances in everything from verification and synthesis to memory innovations, the rise of the system-on-chip (SoC) methodology and open-source hardware to autonomous workloads and cellular communications.

Its not only an honor to submit your work to DAC, but also the future gets invented, continued Jrg. We look forward to seeing your contributions this year and watching you contribute to history.

About DAC

The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is recognized as the premier event for the design of electronic circuits and systems, and for electronic design automation (EDA) and silicon solutions. A diverse worldwide community representing more than 1,000 organizations attends each year, represented by system designers and architects, logic and circuit designers, validation engineers, CAD managers, senior managers and executives to researchers and academicians from leading universities. Close to 100 technical sessions selected by a committee of electronic design experts offer information on recent developments and trends, management practices and new products, methodologies, and technologies. A highlight of DAC is its exhibition and suite area with approximately 175 of the leading and emerging EDA, intellectual property (IP) design infrastructure and electronic design ecosystem providers. The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is supported by ACM's Special Interest Group on Design Automation (ACM SIGDA) and IEEE's Council on Electronic Design Automation (IEEE CEDA).

Design Automation Conference acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other organizations for their respective products and services.

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We are in the middle of a data renaissance. Today, its not just about data instrumentation but also learning how to make DataOps a real business advantage for the entire organization. Data has become an inextricable part of products, used to enhance the quality of user experiences. Reliable access to data and the integrity of that data is imperative to drive innovation and business success.

But just like any process, problems will arise. There will be pipelines that break or data that isnt instrumented properly. The question then becomes, how can teams more quickly identify problems and continually improve? How can the journey toward data integrity become one of iteration and improvement?

DataOps teams are by no means strangers to automationautomated CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) are a huge part of their skill set. But there are some components of automation that are less pervasive throughout DataOps, ones that can help promote data integrity and encourage a culture of improvement.

It all starts with a different approach to automationa human-in-the-loop (HITL) approach. Human-in-the-loop automation enables parts of a process to be fully automated while enabling humans to step in at critical points to take action, make decisions and decide the path forward.

Here are five ways to use human-in-the-loop automation to drive continuous improvement and achieve optimal data integrity.

As is life, inevitably things break, issues arise and teams need to step in to remediate. The goal should be to enable better interruption of these problems when they do occuridentifying issues earlier and bringing the right stakeholders together more easily and swiftly.

HITL automation can help teams not just identify issues earlier but kickstart the incident response and coordinate across teams and stakeholders. Ideally, automated workflows can be triggered from an incoming signal; for instance, from an observability tool like DataDog or BigPanda. An incident response could be started automatically, triggering further automationlike creating tickets, starting a Zoom meeting, creating a Slack channel and bringing together the right team members.

By instantly bringing the right people together, the team can investigate collaboratively and more quickly understand the state of the issue. HITL automation should then enable teams to run further scripts to take action and remediate as needed.

Many companies today are asking, How do we make sure that we have that full integrated loop, down to the collection point? Communication between teams is critical to this endeavor. But even before teams can collaborate on improvements, they need to understand the current state of their data so that if, for instance, a team finds that a report isnt providing whats needed, theres a really clean way to get that communication back to the DataOps team to improve the instrumentation in the first place.

HITL automation can bake improvement into DataOps workflows by automatically documenting every human and machine action throughout a process. Because its connected through APIs to all a teams tools and services, a self-documenting workflow slurps up every action and creates an audit trail. This audit trail is the basis by which teams can more accurately understand not just the integrity of their data, but also how teams are implementing and running processes.

DataOps teams play a big role in making sure the right data is being collected. However, a lot of people are still using systems that are very manual. They may have a good understanding of their log and monitoring data but still dont have a good sense of the human data around their organizationwhat processes and workflows people are running.

Understanding how humans run processes is just as important as understanding technology problems. The self-documenting workflow described above should include documentation of human data, from manually-run scripts to Slack or Teams conversations and, ideally, even auto-update tickets so even maintaining a system of record becomes less manual. Only by looking at the full pictureof human and machine data togethercan teams find areas of improvement in their automation, communication and workflows.

Dont let perfect be the enemy of done. Every great transformation Ive seen started with a small team, a great mandate, and strong support from the executive team. Adding tons of new technology and hiring more people may not be the silver bullet teams need.

Instead, teams should look at the expertise they have in-house firstthe people, technology and processes. Then, begin by taking an incremental approach. HITL promotes incremental, approachable automation by enabling teams to first codify institutional knowledge, analyze, learn and then begin to automate pieces in small batches.

Diving head-first into a fully automated approach can leave teams in a worse state than nothing at all. Automation is a journeywe learn by doing, by recording human and machine data and then, using insights as our guide, begin to find real value in small doses of automation. These small steps can make a huge impact and, over time, add up to substantial business value.

As I mentioned above, teams should first start by evaluating their current resources. What skill sets and technology do they already have and how can they use those resources to achieve their data goals? At the same time, many teams starting their automation journey face challengeslack of development resources, scripts that live on one persons machine, difficulty bringing all the human and machine data together into a recorded timeline.

To help data teams effectively and reliably implement HITL automation, investment into an off-the-shelf platform can help bridge the gaps teams and organizations have. Platforms should enable automation through low-code interfaces while providing code-level customization. This combination enables teams to buy for industry standards while building for the gapsnot managing the platform means development resources can be focused on expanding and improving automation.

Platforms should enable teams to easily connect to APIs and adapt to custom APIs. The continuous change of DevOps processes and tooling coexist with rapidly changing APIs. Therefore, the most promising automation platforms must manage the complexity of APIs, enabling users to focus on the intent, not the mechanics of custom APIs. Automation technologies should seamlessly handle identity, authentication, pagination and caching.

As data becomes increasingly ingrained in product life cycles and user experience, automation holds the key to faster innovation, product quality and enhanced reliability. Creating a culture of continuous improvement and implementing technology like HITL automation that promotes data integrity throughout the product life cycle is where Ive seen the greatest leverage for organizations.

To hear more about cloud-native topics, join theCloud Native Computing Foundationand the cloud-native community atKubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America 2022 October 24-28, 2022.

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As a college student, I worked at a five-star Italian restaurant where I learned the discipline and practice of customer service. The general manager knew exactly which corner to stand in to get a view of every single table during service. They would gauge diners experience according to how they were interacting, their microsignals, how much food was left on their plate and the way they glanced around the restaurant. What does this intense attention to detail and individual customer experience have to do with running a service-oriented technology business? Everything.

The tech industry is notorious for automating processes at the expense of personalization, and that aversion can extend to building the relationships necessary to produce a successful end product. Understandably, some companies and their developers prefer to keep relationships with their clients strictly functional because these connections are messy, people are unpredictable and nothing ever goes completely according to plan. Its a dance we have to do over and again with every new client and project.

For those of us who wish to function as service-oriented tech companies, keeping on top of client and customer experiences requires us to stay attentive and listen with active care. Just like the veteran restaurant manager, we have to constantly scan our environment for cues of satisfaction and dissatisfaction.

Before opening every night, the general manager would make staff hold long pieces of string to measure the angles and distance between tables to ensure they were straight and the edges perfectly aligned. Then, after telling staff the evening specials, he would randomly quiz them about the menu. What color is a fava bean?

Seeing the value of such old-school standards left a deep impression and helped me embed attention to detail as a foundational practice across the board, from designing good UX to cultivating relationships. Creating a desirable environment is about successfully orchestrating a million tiny details and always looking for tweaks to make the customer experience better.

That seemingly omniscient Italian from my earliest experience in the restaurant industry also taught me that being empathic goes hand-in-hand with the hard-nosed realities of running a service-oriented business. They showed me how to take care of people, how to make them feel good and how to read body language.

It might be easy to stereotype tech companies as impersonal dispensers of products (and their developers as cogs in the machinery), but we dont want to just take orders. Our job is to become strategic partners from the ground up for long-term success, and that requires constant care and continual adaptation.

We must be willing to redesign how we work with customers and end users over and over againits always changing because expectations are always changing, and market norms are always changing. The moment that we stop trying to get better through small incremental improvements is the moment we stop being service-oriented.

In the same way that a restaurant has a sequence of service that maps a diners journey from the moment they enter the door, we can architect a customer experience from every touchpoint.

In the sales process, its valuable to layer in different people to create more relationship touchpoints throughout an organization, so, in our case, a new client meets a member of our operations team and then somebody from our engineering team in order to ensure that they feel fully supported. Then, we set expectations in terms of communication as part of a scripted onboarding experience. In our review meetings, we seek feedback to determine whether we have under-delivered and course correct if necessary.

The other thing I learned from that Italian restaurant is that no mistake is irredeemable. It doesnt really matter if you get it right or wrong the first time, it is how you respond when the unexpected happens that matters. Turning a situation around after making a horrible mistakeeven sending out a cold steakcan breed even more loyal customers because it demonstrates that you really care.

Despite the image of tech as cold and distant, its important to recognize that coding and development itself is creative and we should seek to nurture a healthy environment so that people can perform at their best. To that end, it makes sense to think of your responsibility as running the entire length of the chain, from employees to clients and, finally, to end users. Finding humanity in the work along each link is key to building successful partnerships.

In the context of building products, we must be creative to design seamless, curated experiences for end users. There are plenty of apps that sit on someones phone unused before ultimately being deleted. The only way to grab the attention of people that share the same interests and problems is by understanding their needs.

To that end, we must always be asking our clients: What is the easiest point of entry for the user? Creating a low barrier is a quick win that in and of itself is an onboarding experience and an opportunity to build trust.

Equally, what may make one customer happy may not actually have any resonance in the wider market. If customers were only hiring us to write code, we would only be interested in meeting their expectations. The goal is not just to build products, but successful products that establish or reinforce a clients reputable presence in the marketplace.

When we stand in our metaphorical corner of the room to observe the customer experience, we are consolidating data from products that have millions of users and harvesting insight. We are not interested in quick fixes. Customer service and a focus on the end-user experience means being oriented to what the market wants, not designing in a vacuum. We can then continue to build value over time.

In the restaurant business, the little surprise at the end of dinner adds value because it is unexpected. A complimentary after-dinner liqueur with a pithy origin story is a point of detail at its finest. Creating a richer, fuller customer experience can set a tech business apart in an exploding marketplace. For my old mentors, paying attention to every nuance from the beginning to the end is what defines five-star service.

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Epiroc says it has won a large mining equipment order from CITIC Pacific Mining in Australia to deliver a fleet of Epiroc Pit Viper 271 XC blasthole drill rigs.

The drill rigs will come with advanced automation features for use at the Sino Iron open-pit mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, with the Pit Viper drills used to drill for magnetite. They build on the delivery of three other Pit Vipers the company made to the operation back in 2019.

The equipment order was booked in the September quarter of 2022 and is valued at more than SEK300 million ($26 million).

Epiroc delivered Pit Viper rigs to the Sino Iron site in 2019, and we are proud to continue this productive partnership as CITIC Pacific Mining is expanding the mine while optimising productivity and safety, Epirocs President and CEO, Helena Hedblom, said.

Xianglin Cheng, General Manager Mining at CITIC Pacific Mining, added: In the last three years, Epiroc has provided satisfactory after-sale services to help the three Pit Viper 351 drill rigs perform to expectation and has also successfully established mutual trust with CITIC Pacific Mining. The confidence and trust are the major reasons for us to choose Epiroc.

The Pit Viper drills are manufactured in Texas, USA. They will be installed with automation features including AutoDrill, which allows for up to 100% of the hole drilling cycle to be in automatic mode with high consistency and reliability of operations; and AutoLevel, which minimises the time it takes to level and delevel and hence provides more time drilling, according to Epiroc.

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Computer Vision in Automation Market Research Report by Component (Hardware and Software), Product, Application, Vertical, Region (Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East & Africa) - Global Forecast to 2027 - Cumulative Impact of COVID-19" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The Global Computer Vision in Automation Market size was estimated at USD 1,209.78 million in 2021, USD 1,404.80 million in 2022, and is projected to grow at a CAGR 16.29% to reach USD 2,993.05 million by 2027.

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The Market Share Analysis offers the analysis of vendors considering their contribution to the overall market. It provides the idea of its revenue generation into the overall market compared to other vendors in the space. It provides insights into how vendors are performing in terms of revenue generation and customer base compared to others. Knowing market share offers an idea of the size and competitiveness of the vendors for the base year. It reveals the market characteristics in terms of accumulation, fragmentation, dominance, and amalgamation traits.

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Alkymi launched in 2017 with a goal of helping financial services companies automate mundane tasks, a kind of lightweight RPA to grab information from emails and spreadsheets and eliminate a lot of copy/paste activity.

More recently the company developed a way for a more broad set of customers to create their own automations and connect to whatever data sources make sense for them, based on their own work. They called this automation creation tool Patterns Studio.

Today, the company announced a $21 million Series A.

Company founder and CEO Harald Collet says that Pattern Studios completely changed the focus of the business from doing something for customers to having them build the automations themselves based on their own workflows.

We took what used to be kind of curated automation that we would do for clients, and we put a tool kit called Patterns Studio into the hands of business usersso they could express their knowledge of the datas business logic in our software and deploy an automation into Data Inbox themselves, Collet told TechCrunch.

While the idea is to have this no code experience that enables business users to create automations without a lot of IT support, he says his company is using sophisticated machine learning on the back end to implement the workflows, which could focus on tasks like customer onboarding or gathering investment information, or just about anything that is built on a series of repetitive tasks to complete a job.

He says this ability to build workflows is something that any company can use. We started out in financial services. Its a data-intensive vertical, but the tools and products we built work across all verticals.

The approach seems to be working. The company reports that 45 million actions have been processed through the platform, and revenue has grown a robust 300% over the trailing 12 months with the startup on track to double revenue this year.

When we spoke to Collet at the time of his $5 million seed round in early 2020, he had 7 employees. Hes added 30 since and will continue to hire on the heels of this new investment. He says that having appropriate experience is a big part of his hiring process, but that diversity is essential to the success of the business.

Were going out and hiring a lot of experienced hires because of the domain that were in, and theres a big focus on building a diverse team that reflects our users and the business, which is incredibly diverse across all the different verticals and use cases. And so we need to emphasize diversity in our hiring efforts, he said.

Todays round was led by Intel Capital with participation from existing investors Canaan, Work-Bench and SimCorp. Under the terms of the deal, Intel Capital investment director Dave Mueller will be joining Alkymis board. The company has now raised a total of $26 million.

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The Automation Success Platform delivers automation and AI to every employee across the enterprise

New innovations include AARI for Every App, Process Discovery, Document Automation, Citizen Development, the Automation Pathfinder Program, and more

NEW YORK, Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --At Imagine 2022, Automation Anywhere, Inc., the #1 leader in cloud-native intelligent automation, today revealed the Automation Success Platform, designed to accelerate business transformation by making automation accessible for everyone.

Automation is expected to add an estimated $15 trillion benefit to the global economy by 2030, according to Gartner. Today, every company is operating in the Automation Economy, with 95 percent of organizations embracing automation. However, a Deloitte study shows that only 13 percent of companies have been able to scale their automation efforts, often struggling to customize one-size-fits-none automation tools and on-premise platforms.

"The world's leading companies are embracing automation and AI to unlock new opportunities, engage the workforce, and adapt to market changes," said Mihir Shukla, CEO, and Co-Founder, Automation Anywhere. "The Automation Success Platform delivers intelligent automation to every employee and empowers IT and automation leaders to scale success."

The Automation Success Platform Empowers Everyone to Reimagine Work The Automation Success Platform announces new automation tools to empower employees in the apps they love.

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"Automating business processes provides us the leverage and scale that our businesses need to grow and thrive," said Dev Gulati, Head of Automation, at Columbia Sportswear. "Working with Automation Anywhere allows us to build a digital workforce that's always on and works alongside our most precious capital our employees to focus on adding value and providing better products and experiences for our consumers."

"By scaling automation, we have increased the capacity for our teams to increase value for our members, while also being a driving force behind digital transformation," said Joe Bechtel, Director of Automation, Humana. "In addition, having a digital workforce frees up employees to develop new and innovative products and services that improve patient experiences."

"Our research on digital transformation programs shows that only 12% of companies achieve the desired results," said Ted Shelton, expert partner within Bain's Performance Improvement practice. "One of the keys to success is for organizations to integrate automation deeply into their digital transformation efforts. At Bain, we take special consideration to orchestrate the right programs for success; working to accelerate and scale these efforts. Programs like Automation Pathfinder play an important role in paving the way for organizations to succeed in their digital transformations."

"Businesses have an urgent need to accelerate transformation and scale automation to capture more time and cost savings," said Maureen Fleming, VP of IDC. "Solutions that can efficiently break the barriers to scale automation in an agile, secure manner will solve these challenges and forever change the way we work."

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Automation Anywhere is the No. 1 cloud automation platform, delivering automation and process intelligence solutions across all industries to automate end-to-end business processes for the fastest path to enterprise transformation. The company offers the world's only cloud-native platform combining RPA, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics to automate repetitive tasks and build enterprise agility, freeing up humans to pivot to the next big idea and build deeper customer relationships that drive business growth. For additional information, visit http://www.automationanywhere.com. Automation Anywhere is a registered trademark/service mark of Automation Anywhere, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

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Over the past several years, there has been a constant debate around automation in hotels and the dilemma between human interactions and machines. While hotels are a relationship-based service industry, the last decade has proven that the guests dont appreciate waiting in line and that transaction-type interactions (payments, invoice printing, et cetera) have a low added value. In those interactions, only automation can help.

This is why automation technologies have increasingly become a favorite tool amongst hotel operators and its easy to see why: they can be powerful allies in maximizing manpower, streamlining efficiencies, reducing costs, improving processes, and improving sustainability. As a neat little bonus, they also help ensure guests have access to what they want when they want it.

Benefits can include faster ordering and payments at restaurants, check-in kiosks that reduce the time a guest must wait to complete the check-in process, convenient control of lights, curtains, or temperature in guest rooms, seamless invoicing, mobile keys that allow access to rooms via a guests own device, and many more applications.

It is important to note, that the full implementation of this technology doesnt end with selecting the suitable solution for your own property and then partnering with a vendor. The biggest portion of the work is implementing the solutions in your daily operations, and, to do this, the entire staff must be clear on the whys and the benefits of the new tech, not to mention trained and well-versed in how to use it.

Another important consideration is interfacing. When so much technology is available, it is natural that the ecosystem will consist of a large variety of players or providers. A patchwork of different solutions, software, and systems defeats the purpose of streamlining, as information silos are created and redundancy is sure to set in, requiring staff to perform double work and killing any efficiencies that would otherwise be created by the solution in the first place.

This infographic below details five types of automation technologies and how each of them offers solutions for different departments in your hotel in order to facilitate the aforementioned improvements.

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Shiji is a multi-national technology company that provides software solutions and services for enterprise companies in the hospitality, food service, retail and entertainment industries, ranging from hospitality technology platform, hotel management solutions, food and beverage and retail systems, payment gateways, data management, online distribution and more. Founded in 1998 as a network solutions provider for hotels, Shiji today comprises over 5,000 employees in 80+ subsidiaries and brands in over 23 countries, serving more than 91,000 hotels, 200,000 restaurants and 600,000 retail outlets. For more information, visit http://www.shijigroup.com.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Workato, a leading enterprise automation platform, is teaming with Kofax, a leading supplier of Intelligent Automation software for digital workflow transformation, to help expedite process automation for businesses and government organizations. Organizations can gain document intelligence and true data interoperability to power their businesses, resulting in cost and resource savings.

Available directly in the Workato App, Kofaxs Ephesoft Transact connector is highly flexible and scalable; providing a platform to capture, classify and extract data from any physical or digital document within minutes. The new integration with Workato enables end-to-end automation making the data instantly accessible in other business systems. Data can seamlessly flow to hundreds of leading enterprise systems, including SAP, Oracle NetSuite, Salesforce, Infor, Slack, and Box, enabling faster implementations and scale.

Kofaxs Ephesoft Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) platform and Workatos Enterprise Automation Platform will help organizations automate processes using unreliable and unstructured data, says Ike Kavas, Senior Vice President of AI & Innovation of Ephesoft at Kofax. Our IDP platform automates document-centric processes and delivers accurate data to any application, which will be fast and easy using Workatos platform. Our goal is to help our customers and partners simplify and accelerate their automation efforts, which is what our partnership with Workato is all about.

The combination of IDP with Enterprise Automation offers many advantages to organizations that want to digitally transform their department-level processes and improve operations throughout the company by connecting all systems with the right data. This modern approach to intelligent process automation focuses on the way systems and applications interact rather than replicating manual human workflows.

As Workato continues to build out the largest Connector Library in the Enterprise Automation space, partnering with a leader such as Kofax is exciting for our customers and the industry as a whole, says Markus Zirn, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Workato. Partnering with a company that prioritizes structured, actional data as the foundation for successful digital transformation is at the core of what Workato does providing substantial and proven solutions for our community. Were proud to team with Kofax to help organizations quickly send extracted document data to other enterprise systems and workflows.

With Workatos low/no-code platform and the pre-built packaged integration connector, citizen developers and Kofaxs Ephesoft partners can implement and leverage the technology within days, saving money and resources and resulting in faster time-to-value. In addition, it reduces dependencies on RPA bots which lowers complexity and eliminates bot errors while minimizing system maintenance costs.

To find Kofaxs Ephesoft Transact connector on the Workato app directory, visit here. To learn more about Workatos platform and the future of enterprise automation, please visit http://www.workato.com.

About Kofax

Kofax enables organizations to Work Like Tomorrowtoday. Our Intelligent Automation software platform and solutions digitally transform content-intensive workflows. Customers realize faster time-to-value and increased competitiveness, growth, and profitability by combining Kofaxs cognitive capture, RPA, process orchestration, analytics, and mobile capabilities while increasing business resiliency and mitigating compliance risk. For more information, visit http://www.kofax.com. Read more on the Kofax Blog and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

About Workato

The leader in enterprise automation, Workato helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising security and governance. Built for Business and IT users, Workato is trusted by over 17,000 of the world's top brands, including Broadcom, Intuit, and Box. Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., Workato is backed by Altimeter Capital, Battery Ventures, Insight Venture Partners, Tiger Global, and Redpoint Ventures. For more information, visit workato.com or connect with us on social media:

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AUBURN, Calif. and SAN FRANCISO, Oct. 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HuLoop Automation (HuLoop), a fast-growing provider of AI-powered intelligent automation, announced today a partnership with Wizeline, Inc. (Wizeline), a global technology services provider that builds seamless, scalable digital solutions, to offer no-code automation capabilities in two fast-growing sectors: intelligent automation for retailers and software test automation. Wizelines expertise in end-to-end delivery, combined with HuLoops all-in-one, no-code automation platform, enables fast deployment and seamless integration with existing IT systems and processes.

Many industries, like retail, are still faced with challenges from operating on legacy technologies; a simple no-code approach to automation can enable businesses to adopt automated processes quickly and help them stay competitive, said Anbal Abarca, CTO of Wizeline. HuLoops comprehensive array of automation capabilities are impressive, and we are excited to partner with them to complement our portfolio of retail solutions and expand our software testing services business.

HuLoop offers an enterprise-wide, no-code hyperautomation platform with capabilities like robotic process automation (RPA), business process automation (BPA), intelligent document processing (IDP), intelligent data automation (IDA) and software test automation (STA). The company positions itself as a one-stop shop for enterprises in key industries such as retail, wholesale distribution, CPG, and banking. The company empowers various enterprises across the automation maturity curve, with its no-code intelligent automation capabilities, for profitable revenue growth, improved customer service, increased productivity and cost savings.

We are thrilled to be partnering with one of the fastest growing technology services providers around the world, said Todd P. Michaud, HuLoops President & CEO. Our partnership with Wizeline recognizes that no matter how innovative and functional our technology may be, clients need to augment the software and their internal teams with know-how and domain expertise to ensure that they get the expected benefits from the solution.

Forrester predicts that the RPA market will grow to $22 billion by 2025 as rapid digitization forces more companies to embrace automation to fuel business transformation.1 Sophisticated intelligent automation platforms, with democratizing features like no-code interfaces, will be crucial for enterprises looking to integrate RPA and similar technologies into a broader automation fabric that enables digital differentiation and optimization.

Wizeline has a diversified technology services business that enables companies of all sizes to achieve faster innovation cycles by delivering domain expertise around strategy, design, architecture, development, cloud, DevOps, integration services and more. The company offers robust nearshore delivery centers in the Americas with teams of creative and entrepreneurial technologists around the world. The partnership with HuLoop allows Wizeline to deliver advanced automation for retail clients as well as software test automation to customers across industries.

To learn more about the HuLoop-Wizeline partnership, visit https://huloop.ai/partner/wizeline/.

Press Contact Aaron Thomassonpress@wizeline.com

About WizelineWizeline, a global technology services provider, builds and delivers high-quality digital products and platforms that accelerate time to value for leading global brands. We focus on measurable outcomes, partnering with our customers to automate industry-specific processes, mature data-driven capabilities with AI and ML, and improve user experience. Our adaptive teams provide the right combination of solutions, capabilities, and methodologies to deliver results while partnering with our customers teams to foster innovation through continuous learning. We are invested in doing well while doing good, striving to make a positive impact where we live and work. Our diverse culture of innovation, ownership, and community, combined with our Academy, creates an inspiring environment for talent to build long-term careers. To see how Wizeline can help you, visit wizeline.com.

ABOUT HULOOP AUTOMATION, INC.Based in the Sacramento, Calif. area, HuLoop Automation offers an AI-Powered, No-Code Intelligent Automation Platform. This platform brings next-generation hyperautomation innovation across five primary solution areas; 1.) business process automation (BPA), 2.) robotic process automation (RPA), 3.) intelligent document processing (IDP), 4.) software test automation (TA) and 5.) intelligent data automation (IDA). HuLoop is used across the enterprise by both businesspeople and technology experts. The platform delivers significant revenue growth, cost savings, and productivity gains across its prestigious customer base. Learn more at http://www.huloop.ai and follow HuLoop on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

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