What did we learn in 2024?

At this year’s annual end-of-year collab meeting in Hamburg, we took a closer look at what we have learned in 2024 by bringing together our local groups with an open invite to other community members, a few selected speakers and created a curated packed afternoon with a dozen lightning talks.

Attending this year was a bigger crowd than past years — a diverse set of digital leaders from large, complex and global organisations like Canyon, Jungheinrich, Lufthansa, OTTO alongside agencies such as Diconium and Thoughtworks as well as software firms like CoreMedia, Magnolia, Staffbase and a few other friends from near and far.

Employee communication platform software firm Haiilo hosted us in their charming offices, which was a fitting scene for learning and networking.

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How to avoid RPA vendor lock-in

The exponential rate at which the technology is evolving, with new features and components being developed and released daily it’s very import that we have an open, scalable and agile architecture. However this is an ideal state and to tarnish the ideal state one of the biggest challenges today is vendor lock-in.

Often organisations don’t even realized they are locked in until the time they try and innovate with new components and try to open the existing architecture on a system, platform, tool or service.

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Lean RPA the what, why and how

Lean has been the need of the hour as more and more organisations are adopting robotics process automation (RPA) and maturing in their respective space.

By Lean RPA we mean, optimal utilization of all available resources whether they are licenses or VDI/VM or application maintenance teams or monitoring resources and visualization tools. Eventually the expectations is less of operating cost, resilient setup, lower response time, transparency and governance.

While many organisations have historically spent quite some time developing internal resources which can help them attaining Lean RPA for long some major players in the market have gone ahead and provided COTS (Commercial Of The Shelf) solutions which can be easily adopted and deployed for enhancing operations and helping in driving efficient and effective Lean Operations.

The next question comes is what does these tools have to offer in general, now some have them out of the box and some are in the process of enhancing these tools in their current and future version upgrades and roadmaps.

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