Tom Taulli – Robotic Process Automation (RPA), which involves automating repetitive and tedious processes within organizations, is dominated by three pure-play software vendors: UiPath, Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere. These companies are some of the fastest growing in the tech industry and have raised substantial amounts of venture capital.

But the mega software companies want to get a piece of the RPA opportunity. And the one that is perhaps best positioned is Microsoft. 

This should be no surprise. The company has a massive roster of corporate customers, a strong global infrastructure and a vast ecosystem of partners and developers. It also helps that Microsoft has been aggressively bolstering its cloud business, which is now second only to Amazon.

The key to the strategy for RPA has been to leverage the Power Automate platform, which helps automate legacy systems. Just some of the features include: the understanding of structured and unstructured data (say for invoices) and the integrations with more than 300 modern apps and services. There are also numerous AI capabilities. Read On: