Automation Anywhere announces third annual global RPA industry report

Automation Anywhere announced the findings of its third edition of the Automation Now & Next report, revealing that intelligent automation has become a key strategy to navigate current market challenges and sustain business performance.

The research was conducted across eight countries, including India, which represented one of the highest numbers of survey respondents. The Automation Now & Next report found that overwhelmingly organizations across India are making intelligent automation a foundational technology to address these and other obstacles.

Of the 1,000 global organizations surveyed, more than 90 percent say automation addresses the impact of geopolitical and economic uncertainty, while remaining a key component to business transformation across India.

A key finding from the report reveals that actual bot deployments in India surpasses those in the rest of the world, with 67% of companies having already deployed over 300 bots across their enterprise organization (compared to just 21% ROW).

Automation budgets are also dramatically increasing in India with more than three fourths (93%) of organizations planning to expand automation budgets in the next 12 months. Two thirds (66%) are boosting automation funding by 25% or more.

The report also indicates that in India:

· 98% of organizations believe automation is helping address supply chain issues

· 86% of leaders strongly agree that automation has helped them better address staffing shortages, 95% of them represents senior leadership at the VP level and above

· 99% agree that collaboration between humans and intelligent assistants will play an important part in their future-of-work strategies

· 95% support citizen developers to increase automation implementations throughout the enterprise.

Milan Sheth, Executive Vice President of the IMEA Region for Automation Anywhere, said, “Automation has become a strategic priority for business leaders across India in the fallout from the pandemic, but it has also become core to digital transformation efforts. The report validates the top drivers for Indian companies adopting automation to be cost savings, business continuity and delivering great customer experiences amid ongoing disruptions.”