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How Security Teams Are Automating, According to a New SANS Survey – Security Boulevard
Posted: May 29, 2020 at 1:10 am
Automation did not enter popular lexicon until the 1940s, when Henry Ford introduced an official automation department at his Michigan car plant. But the concept dates back many years before that, most notably to the industrial revolution, where automation acting as a driver for improved productivity and time management planted its roots.
Not surprisingly, automation has tagged right along as industries have ascended over time, including information technology and eventually cybersecurity. As long as there is a desire to perform routine and redundant tasks faster, automation will thrive.
The question, then, is not if businesses and security departments are relying on automation (of course they are) but how their use of automation is changing. And thats where things get most interesting and telling of where their greatest efficiency and output gaps may currently lie.
The 2020 SANS Automation and Integration Survey seeks to quantify the progress that is being made because of automation and how it is helping organizations to maximize their security investments.
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Among the key findings from this years report, automation is increasingly being used to support and amplify security operations. And for good reason: SecOps teams are notoriously overwhelmed and hampered by alert overload, security stack sprawl, and inconsistent, undocument and manual processes.
According to the report, Nearly 74% of respondents are applying automation at medium or high levels for security operations and event or alert processing, indicating that they are making good use of existing systems. The second highest application of automation comes in preventing security exposures to the network, with 57% of respondents reporting medium or high levels of automation in this area, followed by IR processing, at 47%.
And the report also stated that businesses expect to earmark additional funds toward incident response (a complement of SecOps) over the coming year.
The study also examined the question of whether increased automation will result in staff reduction, which is an age-old concern but one that rarely plays out.
As part of a recent joint webinar with Siemplify, McAfee CTO Michael Leland spoke how SOAR platforms can not only deliver extreme process value to ones security operations but also free up your most precious capital your people to creatively problem solve and actually make businesses more secure.
The SANS report is a terrific encapsulation of the latest trends and practices in security automation. You can download your free copy here.
Dan Kaplan is director of content at Siemplify.
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Moldmakers Turn to Process Automation in Race to Recover – Cherokee Tribune Ledger News
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ST. LOUIS, May 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- As production begins to ramp up in some sectors, Swoosh Technologies is seeing an increase in mold and die manufacturers turning to automation of design and manufacturing to regain lost revenues.
Swoosh Technologies & Solutions, a certified-Smart Siemens Digital Industries Software business partner, has noticed moreinterest in mold and die-specific programs that automate tasks in the design and manufacturing of molds. "By automating some of the more tedious and predictable steps in the production process like creating parting surfaces or feature recognition for CNC programming, manufacturers can step up the speed of production throughput with the workforce they have in place," notes Dan Wibbenmeyer, Managing Partner at Swoosh Technologies. "And in an industry like consumer products or automotive, speed of delivery and cost will determine who receives the order."
A recent survey from the American Mold Builders Association found that most plant operations fared well during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic operating at full capacity, while only 2 percent had to shut down operations entirely. Those who specialize in the medical device market are seeing the highest production levels with 91 percent of companies reporting they are 90-100 percent staffed and 55 percent looking to add staff.
Swoosh has introduced a series of on-demand virtual demos of advanced tooling solutions for companies looking to accelerate production with automation of industry-specific processes.
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Media Contact:Dianna DietrichPhone: (314) 549-8210Email: dianna.dietrich@swooshtech.com
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Use of Automation and Advanced Technology for SOX Compliance is Trending Down, Finds New Protiviti Survey – PRNewswire
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MENLO PARK, Calif., May 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The eleventh annual Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliance Survey, conducted by global consulting firm Protiviti, identified that only 46 percent of audit teams have been utilizing advanced technologies to optimize compliance processes, a decrease from the previous year's survey findings. The longstanding challenges associated with compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, such as the cost of compliance and reliance on time-consuming manual tasks, are being exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, as finance and audit teams are required to perform audit tasks remotely.
"The tasks associated with SOX compliance continue to be significant and time-consuming," said Brian Christensen, executive vice president and global leader of Protiviti's internal audit and financial advisory practice. "The pandemic brings added burdens to the SOX compliance process, and it will be important for companies to reassess any temporary changes in control design and operation to ensure they continue to be aligned with their risk appetite as the business environment begins to normalize."
The new survey revealed that the number of hours devoted to the SOX compliance process continues to rise, despite regulatory requirements remaining the same year-on-year. Among companies that saw an increase in their SOX compliance hours, 67 percent reported the number of hours went up by more than 10 percent over the prior year, highlighting their lack of automation for simple functions. This finding can also be attributed to the increasingly more complex operations of modern companies. Yet SOX teams that rely solely on spreadsheet and word processing applications, or legacy GRC (governance, risk and compliance) systems to manage their control environments, spend extensive time dealing with version control issues, manually making individual control changes across a dozen or so documents and preparing status reports.
While RPA (robotic process automation), GRC, data analytics and advanced technology tools would better enable SOX work to be performed more efficiently and effectively, many companies surveyed expressed reluctance about embracing centralized control testing and increasing their use of automation. However, companies are starting to take notice, with a quarter of those who do not currently utilize technology tools in their organization's SOX compliance process responding that they plan to do so in the next fiscal year and nearly half (48 percent) responding that they plan to do so within two years.
Among the survey respondents already leveraging technology in their organization's SOX compliance process, it is most frequently applied in testing the accounts payable process (48 percent), financial reporting process (43 percent) and account reconciliations process (43 percent).
"The current pandemic is a vivid reminder of how important it is for audit leaders to be resilient, adapt to unexpected and disruptive events and ensure they can complete SOX compliance activities even when they are dispersed and working offsite," said Chris Wright, a Protiviti managing director and leader of the firm's Business Performance Improvement practice. "Now is the time to address longstanding industry resistance to using technology and automation that has been holding back the evolution of compliance teams for years."
The Protiviti report, titled "SOX Compliance Amid a New Business Equilibrium," is based on a survey of more than 700 audit, compliance and finance leaders and professionals at U.S. companies, representing a wide range of industries. The survey was conducted with support from AuditBoard, a leading cloud-based audit, risk and compliance software company, during the first quarter of 2020, based on the fiscal year 2019.
Protiviti and AuditBoard formed an alliance in 2019 to collaborate in providing organizations with a comprehensive solution of software, consulting and thought leadership for advancing their SOX and internal audit initiatives.
Survey Resources AvailableThe survey report, which contains a special section on strategies for conducting proper audits during the pandemic, is available for complimentary download here. Additionally, an infographic, a podcast featuring Christensen and videos that highlight key findings are also available on the site. A free 75-minute webinar will be conducted on June 4 at 10:00 a.m. with Christensen and guest speakers: Director of Audit Solutions Jason Sechrist, AuditBoard; Managing Director Terry Hartzog; Protiviti and Associate Director Kristen Kelly, Protiviti, to discuss implications for SOX compliance and internal audit functions amid COVID-19. To attend the webinar, please register here.
About Protiviti Protiviti (www.protiviti.com) is a global consulting firm that delivers deep expertise, objective insights, a tailored approach and unparalleled collaboration to help leaders confidently face the future. Protiviti and its independent and locally owned Member Firms provide clients with consulting solutions in finance, technology, operations, data, analytics, governance, risk and internal audit through its network of more than 85 offices in over 25 countries.
Named to the 2020 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work Forlist, Protiviti has served more than 60 percent of Fortune 1000 and 35 percent of Fortune Global 500 companies. The firm also works with smaller, growing companies, including those looking to go public, as well as with government agencies. Protiviti is a wholly owned subsidiary of Robert Half (NYSE: RHI). Founded in 1948, Robert Half is a member of the S&P 500 index.
Protiviti is not licensed or registered as a public accounting firm and does not issue opinions on financial statements or offer attestation services.
Editor's note: an infographic of survey highlights (in PDF or JPEG formats) and photos are available upon request.
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Signavio and Deloitte partnership addresses areas of DX, process digitization, and automation – Help Net Security
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Business transformation specialists Signavio and Deloitte have announced a new global partnership. The announcement brings together both companies to address the growing worldwide demand for solutions and services in the areas of digital transformation, process digitization, and automation.
The partnership supports global users across all digital transformation projects, including the areas of process excellence, ERP transformation, RPA, risk and compliance, and customer excellence.
To drive these global projects, the partnership will utilize the entire solution portfolio of the Signavio Business Transformation Suite an integrated solution platform for modeling, managing, analyzing, optimizing, and executing business processes.
The Suite includes modern technologies like process and decision management, process mining, and customer journey mapping.
Signavio is continuing its corporate growth trajectory globally. To achieve this, we rely on strategic alliances to strengthen our consulting and technology partner program, says Dr. Gero Decker, co-founder and CEO at Signavio.
The cooperation offers us the opportunity to develop additional industry and customer segments on a larger scale. Were excited by this partnership announcement with Deloitte, Dr. Decker adds.
As part of the partnership, Signavio and Deloitte, a leading global provider of audit and consulting services, will pursue a jointly designed go-to-market strategy. We see a significant increase in demand for solutions across process management, optimization, and automation, explains Olly Salzmann, Managing Director of Deloitte KI GmbH.
Julian Lebherz, Head of the Center for Process Bionics at Deloitte, explains: With our Process Bionics approach, and Signavios technology expertise, we are already able to integrate data-driven process analysis with holistic digitization and automation.
In the Center for Process Bionics, Deloitte combines its worldwide expertise in process mining with a holistic management approach that delivers a dynamic, continuous application of gained insights across the entire company. The approach follows the model of natural processes such as neural networking, growth, adaptation, and evolution.
Signavios business transformation and process management solutions will form an integral part of Deloittes Process Bionics offering.
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First software configurable industrial I/O ofr building and industrial automation – New Electronics
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This new line allows manufacturers and industrial operators to achieve greater control system flexibility while reducing their own product complexities.
Traditional control systems require manual configuration, with a complex array of channel modules, analogue and digital signal converters, and individually wired inputs/outputs to communicate with the machines, instruments, and sensors on the operating floor. ADIs AD74412R and AD74413R will enable flexible control systems to be designed with reconfigurable module channels quickly, easily, and remotely without requiring extensive re-wiring - drastically increasing the speed of implementation, flexibility, and the ability to make changes without significant cost and downtime.
As Industry 4.0 emerges, manufacturers are looking for more flexible systems that can quickly and easily adapt to changing requirements, all driven by shifts in consumer behaviours and demand. As a result, they can no longer rely on fixed, large-scaled systems designed for mass-market products and predictable demand. Instead, flexible systems that can be reconfigured quickly are required.
According to ADI, its software configurable I/O will provide manufacturers with the capability to more efficiently implement new projects and achieve more flexible automated control, resulting in reduced design and installation costs, as well as reduced commissioning delays.
In using software configurable I/O, manufacturers can develop a platform that replaces multiple aging fixed function I/O modules or be applied across multiple customer applications where the I/O dynamic changes with each installation. For systems traditionally reliant on control cabinets with multiple I/O modules and specified wiring for each channel type, the need for hardware diminishes as end users can now install a single module type programmable from the control room, helping to decrease logistic, manufacturing and support costs.
Software configurable I/O also acts as a bridge to Ethernet-based control networks, as it can further be applied to brownfield installations requiring updates to 10BASE-T1L industrial Ethernet systems. It enables development of standardised, configurable field I/O units capable of translating between installed HART-enabled 4-20mA sensors and actuators and 10BASE-T1L or 100M Fibre backhaul.
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Sitel Group, Uniphore Partner to Transform the Customer Experience Industry Through AI and Automation – Business Wire
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PALO ALTO, Calif. & MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Uniphore, an early market leader in the Conversational Service Automation (CSA) space, and Sitel Group, a leading global customer experience (CX) management provider that delivers more than 3.5 million customer experiences every day, today announced they have partnered to combine Sitel Groups breadth of industry experience and customer-centric approach with Uniphores world-class Automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) CSA platform to transform the customer experience and enable tailored and powerful solutions for Sitel Groups customers around the globe.
More than ever, AI, Machine Learning and Automation play an increasingly critical role in every aspect of business, especially in customer service. Through the partnership, Sitel Group and Uniphore enable more than 80,000 Sitel Group associates to better meet the rapidly changing and unique demands from more than 400 clients, as well as supporting them through challenges they may face through the global pandemic and beyond.
As a global CX leader, our goal is to continue to redefine what superior customer experiences look like and help our clients deliver those solutions to their customers, said Ryan Maund, Chief Product & Innovation Officer, Sitel Group. Through our partnership with Uniphore, Sitel agents will be able to improve productivity in real-time, transforming experiences to adapt to changing needs and keeping the focus on what matters most: the customer.
With a shared goal of delivering exceptional CX, the two companies bring together deep skills in business and technology strategy, technology development and deployment, and organizational change management to support clients through successful CX transformations.
Now, more than ever, companies need to deliver next-generation customer experiences, which starts with listening to their voices effectively and efficiently, said Umesh Sachdev, CEO and Cofounder of Uniphore. Working with Sitel Groups experts, including their world-class service and delivery teams, our innovative AI and automation solutions will help each Sitel agent deliver better CX to not just meet, but exceed global customer expectations.
Equipped with Uniphores auMina Real Intent software, an AI-powered conversation analytics solution, Sitels expert agents leverage real-time insights to best inform customers real-intent and deliver rapid solutions that transform the customer experience on behalf of their clients. The technology helps agents increase efficiency in calls by automating call summarization and reducing after-call work (ACW), allowing agents more time to focus on creating an emotional connection with the customer and delivering best-in-class CX. Through initial implementation of auMina, Sitel agents saw a 40-50% reduction in ACW.
Additionally, via integration with akeira, Uniphores AI-enabled Conversational Assistant, Sitel Group is scaling CX for its clients providing real-time customer analytics to assist customers through every stage of the customer journey. This technology allows Sitel Groups customers to reduce scaling costs by driving effective, human-like conversation to support sales and customer service functions, allowing Sitels agents to focus on serving customers with the human empathy needed to solve more complex problems.
The Business Process Outsourcing industry has a massive opportunity in front of them and needs to be equipped with the latest AI and Automation technology in order to thrive in todays unique environment, said Jafar Syed, Chief Growth Officer at Uniphore. Uniphore is pleased to be able to partner with Sitel and provide these intelligent automation tools in order to help them deliver their expertise in digital transformation to their global customers.
Sitel Group continues to invest in collaborative supplier innovation and co-creation programs in an effort to provide the best customer experience services for our clients, said Cris Kuehl, VP, Analytics & Client Insights, Sitel Group. This partnership further demonstrates Sitel Groups commitment to expanding our roster of innovative tools and resources to create value for our clients and the customers they serve.
About Sitel Group
Sitel Groups 80,000 people across the globe connect many of the worlds best-known brands with their customers - 3.5 million times every day. As a global customer experience (CX) management leader, we apply our 30+ years of industry-leading experience and the entrepreneurial spirit of our groups founders to deliver omnichannel experiences through voice, chat, social media and more to customers of our 400+ clients across all verticals from Fortune 500 companies to local startups.
Our groups breadth of capabilities powered by our ecosystem of experts including innso, Learning Tribes, Sitel, Sitel Insights and TSC go beyond business process outsourcing (BPO) to support every stage of the customer journey. We are redefining the contact center and improving business results by pairing innovative solutions - such as self-care and automation - with the human touch, emotion and empathy of our people.
As a CX platform, we are powered by experts to deliver tailored CX solutions to fit our clients needs through our consultative, customer-centric approach adding value at every touchpoint - regardless of location, channel or time of day.
Learn more at http://www.sitel.com and connect with us on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Uniphore is the global leader in Conversational Service Automation with offices in the U.S., India and Asia. The Companys vision is to disrupt an outdated customer service model by bridging the gap between human and machine using voice, AI and automation. So that every voice, on every call, is truly heard.
Uniphore enables businesses globally to deliver transformational customer service by providing an automation platform where digital agents take over transactional conversations from humans, coach agents during calls, and accurately predict language, emotion and intent. All in real-time. Conversational Automation & Analytics, Conversational Assistant and Conversational Security elevate how enterprises support and engage their customers, build loyalty and realize efficiencies.
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Jan Bosch is a research center director, professor, consultant and angel investor in start-ups. You can contact him at jan@janbosch.com.
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Digitalization is fundamentally enabled by three core technologies: software, data and artificial intelligence. The common denominator, which is inherent in a digitalized business, is that automation is at the heart of it. Digital technologies allow for automation to a much more significant extent than traditional technologies. We see this reflected in companies: whereas in traditional companies, humans are supported with automation, in digital businesses, automation of the core business processes has removed humans from the equation (almost) entirely.
One of the key reasons for the high degree of automation is that digital businesses typically employ continuous, rather than transactional, business models. This means that theres a continuous relationship with the business of the customers, continuous delivery of new value-adding software, data-driven insights and AI models and continuous monitoring and logging. Activities that we might accept doing manually once or twice per year rapidly become subjects for full automation if they need to be conducted monthly, weekly, daily or even more frequently.
In a digital business, all core business processes are to the highest extent automated and controlled in an automated fashion using quantitative performance data. In fact, we can conceptualize a digital business as consisting of three circles of activities. The core circle consists of the companys core value delivery business processes. For instance, for an e-commerce website, this includes the presentation of items, recommendations, managing orders and taking payments. These activities have no human involvement and are completely automated. In the case that core value delivery processes cant be automated fully, such as warehouse tasks, the humans tend to be instrumented with data collection and subject to the same quantitative performance management as the automated parts. The first circle is concerned with operations and activities that support operations.
The second circle of activity involves human actors who use quantitative data for analytics and experimentation. The main focus here is to measure the core business processes and to tune and optimize them. For instance, analytics may show that items that are recommended to customers by the recommendation engine are selected and bought in 0.15 percent of the cases. As the industry average is higher than that, one of the activities in this circle might then be to experiment with different recommendation algorithms using A/B testing to evaluate whether the engines success rate can be improved to match the average. The second circle is concerned with tactics that improve the performance of the operational core. Its important to note that activities in this circle dont have to be performed by humans. Its entirely feasible to have a system run autonomous improvement activities that focus on optimizing the core business processes.
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Finally, the third circle is concerned with those business activities that are strategic in nature. As strategic activities tend to be about interpreting trends and predicting the future, it can be challenging to quantify them. Typical for activities in this circle is that the focus is on the purpose of the business, the role it plays in its ecosystem and the way it seeks to differentiate and complement itself towards others.
The three circles of activities are different from each other not just in terms of automation and use of data, but also in the cycle time and operating speed. The operations circle runs, by its very nature, in seconds, minutes and hours. The tactical circle operates in days and weeks, whereas the strategic circle tends to operate in months and years.
Of course, one can find huge amounts of automation in traditional companies as well. The main difference with digital businesses is the underlying mindset and approach. A bit exaggerated, in traditional companies, tasks are performed by humans unless its too expensive to do so. In digital companies, tasks are automated and performed by systems unless its unfeasible or prohibitively expensive to do so.
Its easy to forget how far automation and digitalization can take a company. In many SaaS companies, the vast amount of business value creation (as in 99+ percent) is conducted fully automatically by systems rather than humans. The funny thing is, however, that in my experience, even in SaaS companies, the majority of management attention is directed towards humans and human processes, even if these represent a very small slice of the business.
Concluding, I find it helpful to think about companies in three distinct circles of activity, ie delivery and operations, optimization and experimentation and, finally, strategy and innovation, that have completely different characteristics, cycle times and success metrics. In my experience, many tend to mix up the activities in the different circles, which leads to confusion and sub-par performance. As a leader, take a step back and reflect on your organization, map the processes and activities to the three circles and identify where there are mismatches that you can address. Going digital is challenging, but the alternative is to remain a traditional company and risk being disrupted.
In his course Speed, data and ecosystems, Jan Bosch provides you with a holistic framework that offers strategic guidance into how you successfully can identify and address the key challenges to excel in a software-driven world.
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Automation in the BFSI sector amid COVID-19 – Elets
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared COVID-19 a global pandemic and the defining global health crisis of our time. What started as a suspectedvariation of the flu, soon took down entire economies, forcing the world to go into a state of recession. With measures such as social distancing and quarantine becoming mandatory, organizations across sectors were compelled to shut down their offices and ask employees to work from home temporarily.
While the concept of working from home is fairly common in industries such as information technology, it is not widely practiced in the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) industries. Therefore, BFSI companies have had to make a complete shift to this new concept of working from home, especially on such a large scale.
The transition has had some challenges. With most customers engaging remotely with the bank, there has been an upswing in the number of queries as they make the move to a self-service model.
Employees are still grappling with the changed expectations, given that they have little training and -experience to bank on. Also, financial institutions have large amounts of sensitive data that employees need to access in the course of their work. How can the bank ensure secure access to this data customer service agents, operations processing agents, and analysts while they work remotely?
In such circumstances, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has a huge role to play in ensuring robust Business Continuity Plans (BCP) for financial organizations to ensure productivity and efficient functioning. Here are some ways in which RPA can help:
Monitoring Remote Employees
While employees work remotely, there is a large security risk that presents itself. The problems of unsecured networks, private data being visible to everyone in the vicinity of the employee, and misuse of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) can be especially challenging. These issues can result in reputational risk and increase compliance costs for an organization. Bots can help here. They can be used to mask sensitive data, or even remove it completely, ensuring data privacy. Bots can also monitor employees screens in real-time and recognize when sensitive information is being accessed by the user.
Addressing Agent Shortage
The ever-changing pandemic scenario has left customers worrying about their finances. This has resulted in an increase in the number of queries regarding claims, benefits withdrawals, retrials, deferrals, and tax filing extensions. Call centers are therefore flooded with calls. However, with fewer agents available to answer the queries, there is overburdening of staff and increased wait times for query resolution. Bots can assist agents with data extraction, system entries, request creation, and preparing report extracts. This will not only lower the workload for agents but also drastically cut down the query resolution time.
Automating Claims Processing
With higher mortality rates, travel disruptions and factory shut-downs becoming commonplace, insurers have been flooded with claims and inquiries on all types of offerings. This includes large commercial and specialty insurance, as well as life, benefits, health and event insurance. Automation can help manage the workload, secure data, and reduce wait-time for the organization by processing spikes, launching chatbots, automating submissions, and undertaking coverage validation and fraud analysis.
Operational Efficiency and Cost Takeout
With revenue and margin pressures along with potential mergers and acquisitions (M&A), operational efficiency will become a lead business imperative. Operational costs will have to be cut forcing a re-prioritization of investments from long-cycle large scale transformation to incremental low-cost automation programs that deliver faster results. This issue can be resolved by enabling end-to-end attended automation for long-running processes, citizen-led automation, allowing for cost-cutting through task and process mining to identify automation opportunities.
While these are just a few ways that automation can help the BFSI industry work around the current situation through automation, and new use cases are being discovered regularly. By investing in process automation early on, financial institutions will be able to incorporate it into their BCP from the start and save time and costs by ensuring rapid, error-free results during these unpredictable times and even in the future.
Views expressed in this article are the personal opinion ofManish Bharti, President India and SAARC, UiPath.
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Global Industrial Automation Food Safety and Inspection Market 2020-2027
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Company Coverage (Company Profile, Sales Revenue, Price, Gross Margin, Main Products etc.)
The Key Players | Advantech, Datalogic, Inspection Systems, METTLER TOLEDO, Teledyne Technologies, and Thermo Fisher Scientific
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TABLE OF CONTENT
1 Report Overview
2 Global Growth Trends
3 Market Share by Key Players
4 Breakdown Data by Type and Application
5 United States
6 Europe
7 China
8 Japan
9 Southeast Asia
10 India
11 Central & South America
12 International Players Profiles
13 Market Forecast 2020-2027
14 Analysts Viewpoints/Conclusions
15 Appendix
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Factory Automation Market 2020 COVID-19 Impact Analysis, Business Opportunities and Future Outlook 2026 – Cole of Duty
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Global Factory Automation Market Size, Status and Forecast 2020-2026
The report presents an in-depth assessment of the Factory Automation Market including enabling technologies, key trends, market drivers, challenges, standardization, regulatory landscape, deployment models, operator case studies, opportunities, future roadmap, value chain, ecosystem player profiles and strategies. The report also presents forecasts for Factory Automation investments from 2020 till 2026.
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The report presents the market competitive landscape and a corresponding detailed analysis of the major vendor/key players in the market. Top Companies in the Global Factory Automation Market: Emerson, FANUC, Schneider Electric, Aylesbury Automation, KUKA, Honeywell, Siemens, Mitsubishi Electric, BBS AUTOMATION, Phoenix, Bosch Rexroth, Premier Automation, Rockwell Automation, ABB and others.
Global Factory Automation Market Split by Product Type and Applications:
This report segments the global Factory Automation market on the basis of Types are:Programmable AutomationFixed AutomationIntegrated AutomationFlexible Automation
On the basis of Application, the Global Factory Automation market is segmented into:Automotive ManufacturingFood & BeverageOil & Gas ProcessingMiningOthers
Regional Analysis For Factory Automation Market:
North America (United States, Canada and Mexico)Europe (Germany, France, UK, Russia and Italy)Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast Asia)South America (Brazil, Argentina, Colombia etc.)Middle East and Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa)
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Influence of the Factory Automation Market Report:
-Comprehensive assessment of all opportunities and risk in the Factory Automation market.-Detailed study of business strategies for growth of the Factory Automation market-leading players.-Conclusive study about the growth plot of Factory Automation market for forthcoming years.-In-depth understanding of Factory Automation market-particular drivers, constraints and major micro markets.-Favourable impression inside vital technological and market latest trends striking the Factory Automation market.
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-Key Strategic Developments: The study also includes the key strategic developments of the market, comprising R&D, new product launch, M&A, agreements, collaborations, partnerships, joint ventures, and regional growth of the leading competitors operating in the market on a global and regional scale.
-Key Market Features: The report evaluated key market features, including revenue, price, capacity, capacity utilization rate, gross, production, production rate, consumption, import/export, supply/demand, cost, market share, CAGR, and gross margin. In addition, the study offers a comprehensive study of the key market dynamics and their latest trends, along with pertinent market segments and sub-segments.
-Analytical Tools: The Global Factory Automation Market report includes the accurately studied and assessed data of the key industry players and their scope in the market by means of a number of analytical tools. The analytical tools such as Porters five forces analysis, SWOT analysis, feasibility study, and investment return analysis have been used to analyze the growth of the key players operating in the market.
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