2021 Intelligent Automation Spend & Trends Annual Report

• The Coronavirus crisis has accelerated digital transformation at many organizations. However, companies are still struggling to establish and enact a holistic, enterprise vision for change.

• Intelligent Automation  is poised for expansive growth. But are organizations prepared to transition from simple task-based automation to large-scale, complex RPA-enabled process transformation? 

• Ground-breaking solutions such as low-code automation and workflow orchestration are blurring the lines between business and IT. Is your workforce prepared?

2020 and the first half of 2021 has been a wild ride for many companies. The global pandemic along with the ensuing economic crisis and skilled talent shortage has put digital transformation at the forefront of everyone’s mind. 

However, are companies actually accelerating their investments in automation or is it all just hype? Furthermore, if companies are in fact embracing automation at unprecedented rates, where exactly is the money going?

To answer these questions, we at the Intelligent Automation Network surveyed 250+ senior digital transformation leaders to find out what types of advanced business process automation tools they were investing in and where they’re seeing the most value. What we found was a bit more complex than anticipated. 

While 2020 was a year defined by survival, 2021 is proving to be a year of reinvention. The events of the past 18 months have inspired many organizations to reimagine their approach to automation from a one-and-done to continuous delivery and hyperautomation. Instead of purchasing one solution at a time, organizations are looking to build agile, consolidated automation stacks whereby multiple, unified technologies work together in harmony across the enterprise.

But that’s not all. Download our 2021 Intelligent Automation Spend & Trends Report to discover:

• Adoption rates for digital transformation tools such as RPA, Low-Code, Workflow Automation & more
• What functional areas are most ripe for digital transformation
• Budget trends & future outlook for digital transformation investments
• Who are the leading vendors in this space and why
• Why digital transformation is no longer “just about automation” via our Q&A with Malcolm Ross, the VP, Product Strategy / Deputy CTO at Appian Corporation on emerging industry trends