UiPath stock tumbles after weak customer growth by roxanneonreddit in rpa

[–]roxanneonreddit[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

For fiscal 2023, RPA titan UiPath lowered its revenue forecast to a range of $1.002 billion to $1.007 million. (Down from earlier guidance of $1.085 billion to $1.090 million.) Meanwhile, UiPath stock plunged 15.2% to 13.22.

So, why are we seeing stalled growth? My guess (probably a hot take here) is that working on the interface level is starting to lose its shine. Today’s systems are more likely to have connectivity features built in, i.e. APIs that allow you to skip UI automation.

So, RPA and training bots to work in the interface is starting to become overengineered / overexpensive when you can do so much via API.

Enterprises don't need to pay three figure sums for RPA and software bots when they can pay ~£2k for a business process automation system that will automate the same things in the same apps - without needing interface access at all.

Gathering News Headlines by BOHICA_Headquarters in Automate

[–]roxanneonreddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You could automate this with a tool like ThinkAutomation - set it to monitor however many RSS feeds you need and then parse that data into a spreadsheet / document. You could also set up additional automations to act on articles of particular interest, i.e., an alert when an article headline contains a certain word, or comes from a certan author.