Formulated Automation Podcast | RPA Podcast | Business Automation | Process Automation

In this episode we speak to M. Scott Ford, the Chief Code Whisperer at Corgibytes. A company that focuses on mending software. He is also the host of one of our favorite podcasts - Legacy Code Rocks. This episode is all about legacy code, a topic that is really near and dear to the RPA community.

Just a note this episode may get technical but have some solid lessons for anybody dealing with tech that frightens them.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to co-founders Jackson Ostler and Dave Aditya about their company Plena Data. Plena has built their own RPA platform and has focused the offering on some very specific finance and accounting use cases. We talk about their experience getting into the RPA space as well as their model for how they operate and deliver value to their customers.

Mark and Brent catch back up with Antti Karjalainen the CEO of Robocorp. Robocorp is the leading open-source RPA company that has recently released their GA release. We dive into how they are supporting other open-source projects in the space and what tools are in the works in the coming months. We also talk about how community-driven projects can help the initiatives of the company.

Brent and Mark chat with Babu Sivadasan, CEO of Jiffy.ai. Jiffy is an IPA (Intelligent Process Automation) platform that is meant for scale. We get a background on Babu and why he got into the space. We also dive into some of the key features needed to execute IPA. Babu talks to us about leadership qualities for successfully ushering automation through an organization. We also talk about how change affects automation and the timescale lens that Babu looks at automation through.

We speak with Dmitry Karpov the Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Electroneek. Dmitry has a rich background in automation and entrepreneurship. Dmitry walks us through his experiences and how Electroneek is different than the competitors in the space. We discuss what ingredients are needed for RPA to flourish in an organization.

In this episode, we have a conversation with Guy Kirkwood, UiPath's Chief Evangelist. We discuss his story and perspective as hire number 27 back in 2015 to the current state of the company and marketplace. Guy talks about the reality of implementing RPA and what effect it has on culture or "Mood Music" as he calls it.

Mark and Brent walk through the week's news and dive into what is included in the Robocode General Availability release. Robocode is an exciting company making waves in the open-source RPA space. We got access to the product and walk through some of the high-level features and pricing.

We talk to Tom Taulli who is the author of the Robotic Process Automation Handbook as well as a regular tech contributor for Forbes. Tom has spent a great deal of time getting to know the RPA space and talks about what he has seen. We chat about the lack of pricing pages for RPA software companies and how the current market compares to past tech trends

Mark and Brent dig into current events in the RPA space, the Formulated re-branding and some future predictions on where the RPA wars are heading.

We dive into what RPA looks like in the public sector with Mikkel Rønde Jensen. Mikkel develops bots for the City of Copenhagen and walks us through how they've implemented RPA and how they maintain long-term value with their bots.