Vanilda Grando, Director Global Sales Development, Alaris Division of Kodak Alaris
By now, Kodak Alaris has established itself as world’s leading document scanner provider. Its high speed scanners are deployed by organizations for handling large digitization projects. Now, the tie-up with the RPA major, UiPath, would allow Kodak Alaris to further automate its workflows around scanning solutions.
Large volumes of electronic documents are printed on papers, which add to the overall quantum of paper documents either hand-written or hybrid ones. Globally, the total consumption of paper has increased even though a lot of information is stored and exchanged in digital formats.
Moreover, an array of verticals including BFSI, telcos, government, PSUs, judiciary, education, civic bodies and real estate among others continue to make paper documents a part of their workflows. Government records – including land records – and old manuscripts stored in archives continue to exist in the paper-world. However, efforts are made to convert paper documents into electronic ones. This has led to a parallel scheme of things to transform paper documents into electronic ones, which could easily be managed, and if needs be, could be printed on paper. So, the interchangeability of paper documents into electronic ones and vice-versa is critical. For converting paper documents into electronic documents, enterprises & organizations (including government archives) deploy high speed scanners allied with specialized software.
A number of IT vendors offer scanners in the global market. Of all them, Kodak Alaris is undoubtedly the most focused company that provides a large portfolio of document scanners & solutions that make the process of converting documents into digital files efficient and easy.
Now, aimed at making the scanning processes further efficient and streamlined, Kodak Alaris has struck a tie-up with UiPath, a RPA (robotic process automation) solutions provider. Yes, aimed at enriching its scanning systems & solutions, Kodak Alaris has struck a global alliance with UiPath. The collaboration would enable channel partners and customers of both the companies to leverage Kodak Alaris’ information capture solutions and UiPath software to accelerate digital transformation by automating and streamlining business processes. The companies has also introduced their integration via the Alaris Capture Pro to UiPath Orchestrator Connector, which provides a seamless connection between fully indexed, high quality images from Kodak scanners and UiPath bots.
“We’re delighted to announce this global alliance with UiPath, whose software is among the leading tools for building RPA robots,” said Vanilda Grando, Director Global Sales Development, Alaris Division of Kodak Alaris. “Intelligent information capture combined with RPA is especially powerful for finance, IT and IT services, operations and information governance. The combination of Kodak Alaris scanners, software and services, with UiPath’s RPA platform will enable partners to take their customers’ information capture to the next level, making total automation and paper-free processes a business reality”, added Grando.
We’re delighted to announce this global alliance with UiPath, whose software is among the leading tools for building RPA robots. Intelligent information capture combined with RPA is especially powerful for finance, IT and IT services, operations and information governance. The combination of Kodak Alaris scanners, software and services, with UiPath’s RPA platform will enable partners to take their customers’ information capture to the next level, making total automation and paper-free processes a business reality.
Vanilda Grando
Director Global Sales Development
Alaris division of Kodak Alaris.
The RPA is the key to working smarter and for many organizations – in particular, those most reliant on paper-based processes – has the potential to be truly transformative when used to modernize information and data capture. The alliance between UiPath and Kodak Alaris will generate new business opportunities for system integrators and software vendors, helping them expand RPA projects and deliver intelligent scanning and information capture solutions to customers in sectors including Government, Financial Services, Logistic and Healthcare.
The RPA starts with usable data, which in turn starts with high quality images. Perfect Page Technology from Kodak Alaris optimizes the image quality of every page for more accurate information extraction and up to 20 percent better OCR read rates, while Capture Pro Software quickly converts batches of paper into high-quality images — the foundation for accurate, streamlined data and decision-making.
The UiPath RPA platform automates sequences of repeatable processes, minimizes disruption, uncovers efficiencies and provides insights, making the path to digital transformation fast and cost-effective. Once information is captured via the scanner, software robots complete repetitive, rules-based tasks such as moving files and folders, extracting structured data from documents and executing processes with it.
“Our two technologies complement one another,” said George Roth, Senior Manager, Technology Alliances at UiPath. “It’s not about taking people out of the loop, it’s about being able to reallocate them and bring them back in if needed. For example, you could set a threshold for OCR read rates at 90 percent. If the RPA solution doesn’t meet the 90 percent threshold, the bot will send it to a human for review. So, there’s an opportunity to really make a good human-in-the-loop partnership”, explained Roth.
In July, Kodak Alaris-hosted a virtual event where keynote speaker Jim Walker from UiPath and Joe Yankle from Kodak Alaris shared tips for helping organizations automate business processes, connect their digital workforces and drive better business outcomes. By using technologies like artificial intelligence to automatically recognize documents or redact sensitive data, organizations are freeing up staff for higher-value tasks.
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