RE: Might be of interest to holders26 Sep 2018 18:38
Ok one more answer only.....
Here's an starter list off the top of my head, but anonymised to keep individual company names out of this.
4 xxxx - our core Life/GI insurance platforms (some of them mainframe, all of the legacy)
yyyy - our core workforce management platform
10 ZZZZs - third party unit trust and management platforms
AAAA - our payment platform
zzzz- our actuarial calculation engines
etc etc etc (we are not a big organisation and have over 100 legacy systems). I know larger insurers with 500-1000 systems
As I said these are the systems our business people operate on and we have 1000s of people using the. Our situation is replicated across FS.
Finally - to be clear - I did not say BP is the only tool that can operated these systems.I know UiPath and AA can as well, but we are not going to work with multiple RPA tools, that only complicates things. MS Workflow, by their own admission, can only connect to limited apps (approx 100 modern ones). You finally mentioned Biztalk which is a server layer working with APIs. This too could work- if we were prepared to spend 10s or 100s of millions on enabling APIs across all our systems- for which there is no relative business case vs RPA. So our practical tool, for our needs, is RPA.
What will the next exciting step for us is the integration with the growing AI capability...
Finally I had to laugh when you you said "BP is not doing anything new" - well actually that is EXACTLY what they did. If you knew the industry - you would know they were first to market with a tool that does enables easy robotic automation across all systems in just the same way as a human worker, but with the controls around it needed for security.
Hey - ho. I must go back to my day job. bye..