Robotic Process Automation (RPA): 6 open source tools

2016

As with many new software implementations, there’s a build-or-buy choice when getting started with Robotic Process Automation (RPA).

On the build side, you can write your own bots from scratch, provided you’ve got the right people and budget in place. On the buy side, there’s a burgeoning marketplace of commercial software vendors offering RPA in various flavors, as well as overlapping technologies. (Some market themselves under different but related terms like “intelligent automation.”)

In fact, Gartner previously called RPA the fastest-growing enterprise software segment of 2018, with 63 percent growth in worldwide revenues. It’s a competitive market, too – you’ve got options.

[Source: The Enterprisers Project]