Re:My biggest mistake as an RPA developer
by _dain_ on Monday March 21, 2022 @04:32PM
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>RPA replicates the work that these workers do by automating on the UI of the legacy application and replacing them. It is championed by ambitious business professionals who
>1) Don't know that a more elegant solution exists in the traditional IT world
>2) Don't receive enough support from the IT org to solve this business problem that is crucial to them.
>Therefore, such business professionals collaborate with consultants to spear-head RPA projects in the name of digitization, ushering in AI or similarly varnished back-doors.
Sounds like Conway's Law taken to an absurd degree and turned into a multibillion dollar industry.
>1) Don't know that a more elegant solution exists in the traditional IT world
>2) Don't receive enough support from the IT org to solve this business problem that is crucial to them.
>Therefore, such business professionals collaborate with consultants to spear-head RPA projects in the name of digitization, ushering in AI or similarly varnished back-doors.
Sounds like Conway's Law taken to an absurd degree and turned into a multibillion dollar industry.