Hyland, a leading content services provider for organisations around the world, has been recognised as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave ™: Robotic Process Automation, Q1 2021 report. Hyland added RPA functionality to its intelligent automation product portfolio through the acquisition of Another Monday in 2020.

The report, which is available to download here, features key industry trends driving the increased demand for RPA and essential capabilities organisations should look for within an RPA solution, including the ability to deliver rich experiences for business leaders, provide integrations to RPA-adjacent technologies and empower a superior scaling experience. The Forrester report  acknowledges Hyland’s strategic approach integrating RPA into its content services platform and intelligent automation solutions that solve industry-specific challenges with RPA, process orchestration, low-code capabilities and advanced integrations with external systems. Hyland received the highest score possible in the following criteria:

• Current offering: Portfolio management and ROI analysis – defined as offering customers a rich platform covering the whole automation lifecycle, including cost and projected efficiency considerations as well as seamless integration with external platforms
• Current offering: Bot deployment – defined as delivering automated bot testing, AI-powered bot repair and re-testing and generating compelling, auditable bot documentation
• Strategy: Product vision – defined as having superior capabilities  with plans such as no-code designer for citizen developers, automation collaboration, automation portfolio management, task/process mining integration, bot generation
• Strategy: Performance – defined as having strong evidence of past and future performance, one-year sales forecast and growth ambition that aligns with its strategic product vision

John Phelan, EVP and chief product officer at Hyland, explained the value of RPA for organisations across industries: “In order to excel in evolving business climate and compete with innovative start-ups that are born digital, organisations need to embrace intelligent automation, allowing digital workers to perform repetitive, tedious work and allocating employees to higher priority tasks that elevate and improve customer experience. We see RPA as a natural extension of an organisation’s intelligent automation strategy and vision. By incorporating RPA into a best-in-class content services platform, organisations quickly streamline processes, achieve faster ROI, and enable end-to-end automation.”

To learn more about intelligent automation delivered through Hyland RPA, visit Hyland.com/RPA.