A brief history of SAP Intelligent RPA
SAP acquired Contextor SAS – a Europe-based firm specializing in delivering RPA solutions – in November 2018 and renamed it SAP Intelligent RPA soon after. However, Contextor had been delivering RPA solutions in Europe since 2003 and involved in research and development specific to RPA since 2000.
Why is this important?
It is necessary to understand that SAP Intelligent RPA is based on an RPA platform with a deep foundation and solution maturity spanning nearly 2 decades. Any RPA solution can offer the expected functionalities, but solution maturity takes time, and SAP Intelligent RPA has gone through that process.
The solution that SAP launched in 2018 as SAP Intelligent RPA is now renamed SAP Intelligent RPA 1.0, and a new version, SAP Intelligent RPA 2.0, has been launched recently. SAP started offering pre-built bots for Intelligent RPA as SAP Best Practice content in 2019 and changed the delivery model through the...