The quest for end-to-end intelligent automation – CIO

The pandemic has seen accelerated interest in process automation as organizations have scrambled to overhaul business processes and double down on digital transformations in response to disruptions brought about by COVID-19.

And for IT leaders stepping into or already steeped in such modernization efforts, artificial intelligence mainly in the form of machine learning holds the promise to revolutionize automation, pushing them closer to their end-to-end process automation dreams.

But for now, AI-powered process automation remains a piecemeal approach, in which AI is involved in individual tasks but not across the entire process chain. Regardless of how vendors spin it, fully intelligent automation has not yet arrived but organizations working to fill the gaps are finding innovative ways to this promising concept closer into being.

A typical use case for AI in automation includes the following: instead of requiring someone to manually re-key information from a PDF into a form, an AI is trained to do it for them. Or, when an employee would normally hunt through corporate documents to answer a customer question, an AI suggests possible answers.

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The quest for end-to-end intelligent automation - CIO