Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Some state and local agencies are seeking to automate their data ...

The term ‘intelligent automation’ likely brings to mind self-driving cars. In reality, examples of intelligent automation are already all around us—pervasive in nearly all industries and playing an ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With automation growing at a rate of 65-70 percent year-on-year, the statistics indicate that it is poised to grow further owing to its importance in helping make more ...

What’s the goal of automation? Ask a 19 th century factory owner and the answer would likely have been “efficiency.” Through automation, individual workers could be made more productive. Ask a 20 th ...

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In the past year, the challenges faced by manufacturing industries have intensified, with supply chains strained to breaking point, material shortages and fluctuating demand. It means that pinpointing ...

“The only thing constant is change.” The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus spoke these wise words long ago, but little did he know how true they would ring today. Change—disruptive change, to be ...

“I believe,” said Alan Turing in 1950, “that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking ...

Accounting and finance functions used to be more siloed, but now they are called on to leverage their expertise across every area of business, from identifying operational inefficiencies, to ...

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has emerged as a pivotal technology in the digital transformation of business processes. By employing software robots to execute rule-based, repetitive tasks, RPA ...