As Camunda Beefs Up Its Automation Platform, BPA Becomes A Hot Trend

BPA is a component in the current trend of modernizing IT through digital transformation.

Camunda, which offers a platform for business process automation, announced a slew of new features designed to help organizations meet their automation goals in the quest for digital transformation.

One new feature is Camunda RPA (Robotic Process Automation). With it, users can embed RPA directly into a workflow.

Another new capability is Camunda IDP (Intelligent Document Processing). The feature is designed to “replicate” human labor, according to a news release from Camunda, by “using AI and ML to classify, extract, and process information from documents.” Camunda said this capability can minimize errors and save time. Like the RPA feature, IDP can be integrated into workflows.

In addition, Camunda announced new SAP integration, which it said will allow organizations to orchestrate SAP across “people, systems, and devices.”

Also, Camunda’s new copilot feature provides suggestions to help organizations configure and manage their workflows.

Business process automation is a hot topic. It’s a component in the current trend of modernizing IT through digital transformation.

In fact, modernization is one of the top concerns this year of midmarket IT leaders, according to “The State of The Midmarket Report,” prepared by research firm Gartner.

Process automation technologies have become so significant in business that automation vendors like Camunda, are consolidating multiple technologies into their automation platforms.

AI is a big driver of this trend.

Gartner has also acknowledged this push among vendors to expand their automation platforms and has coined the trend “BOAT” (Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies). BOAT represents the emerging trend of “general-purpose automation platform,” combining orchestration, BPA, RPA, AI and other technologies, according to Gartner.

Camunda emphasized the importance of adding these new features to its existing automation platform.

“Our new AI and automation capabilities are an important step in Camunda’s evolution to become the leading process orchestration AND automation platform,” said Jakob Freund, CEO and co-founder of Camunda in a news release.

“As organizations of all sizes and industries adopt AI and automate at scale, they must integrate all of their components in a coherent, orchestrated fashion in order to truly realize value from their investments, or simply to remain competitive. We are committed to helping companies, with and through AI, automate better business outcomes today and in the future, by providing a flexible, composable, intelligent platform for end-to-end process orchestration and automation, no matter how technologies evolve,” he added.