RoboRana focuses on an Intelligent Process Automation(IPA) strategy. Mathias Fransen, managing partner at RoboRana, explains what IPA is.

Automation, and certainly hyperautomation or intelligent automation, are buzzwords that you come across more and more often. It is a difficult description for something that is very simple. Hyperautomation is a combination of different automation tools, packaged into one platform. You can automate end-to-end, and tackle any user case.

Many people fear that they will lose their jobs if automation in business continues. But those fears are unfounded and the opposite is true. Technology is actually ideally positioned to work with people and is an added value rather than a threat. It allows you to automate tasks that employees don't like to do or just take up a lot of time. It is important, however, that as a manager you closely involve your employees in the process. If you leave them to their own devices and do not include them in the possibilities, there is a chance that they will draw the wrong conclusions and be reluctant to further automation.

Inspire, experiment, industrialize

In most cases, we start our journey by inspiring the organizations by going deeper into the many possibilities of hyperautomation. After that, it is important that you get the company used to the technology. Only then can you start experimenting. We start small to get a good idea of what is possible and what is not. If you then build a kind of center of excellence around the technology, you also ensure that you increase the degree of adoption within your organization. Once your company has a better feeling for the technology, you can continue to experiment and industrialize.

We work with low-code platforms for this kind of thing. The big advantage of that is that as a company you can also involve employees who don't work in your IT department but have an interest in the subject. Low-code means that less coding is required. With a short training course from us, employees with limited knowledge can already configure, set up the platform and create scripts. Then you can use a drag and drop interface to automate your process. Our training ensures that your company suffers less from the existing skills gap and the shortage of IT staff because you can also bring in other employees.

Technology on point

At the moment, Belgium is still lagging behind Western Europe, but hyperautomation is booming. And in itself it is not a bad thing that in Belgium we were more cautious, because now we can get to work immediately with a technology that is already ready. So today the technology is ready for the market, but now the organizations have to follow, and that's where RoboRana comes in. We help organizations to embrace this new technology and increase the adoption rate in Belgium.