Artificial intelligence has propelled many enterprise sectors, but perhaps none faster than the field of robotic process automation, or RPA.

A recent Gartner Inc. report found that the RPA market grew 63% in 2018, making it the fastest-growing enterprise software category. And the market leader, according to Gartner, is UiPath Inc.

Founded out of Romania in 2005, the company has refined the art of bringing automation to mundane, laborious enterprise tasks. It has claimed half of the top 50 Fortune Global 500 as customers and has implemented RPA solutions across a wide range of industries, from healthcare and insurance to telecommunications and banking.

Fueling that rapid growth and customer adoption is an important technology development: AI has become a key ingredient in running any major business today.

“When I first joined UiPath two years ago, when we put RPA and AI in the same sentence people laughed,” said Bobby Patrick (pictured), chief marketing officer of UiPath. “A year ago, we said that RPA is really the path to AI in business operations. Now, we say that we’re the most highly valuable AI company in the world, and no one has ever disagreed.” Read On: