Publicis Groupe : .Sapient Partners with Leading RPA Firm UiPath, Enabling Business Transformation Through Reduced Integration Overheads, Rapid ROI and Elimination of Manual Processes

Publicis.Sapient Partners with Leading RPA Firm UiPath, Enabling Business Transformation Through

Reduced Integration Overheads, Rapid ROI and Elimination of Manual Processes

May 17, 2018 - Boston, USA -Publicis.Sapient,part of Publicis Groupe [Euronext Paris: FR0000130577, CAC40] aŶd the ǁorld's ŵost adǀaŶĐed digital traŶsforŵatioŶ ĐoŵpaŶLJ, todaLJ announced a new partnership with leading robotic process automation (RPA) providerUiPath.

With decades of mergers, acquisitions and IT investments, and siloed infrastructures, firms are struggling to evolve their operations to become more client-centric and react to rapidly changing market forces, driven by new technologies, enhanced client and consumer expectations.

Numerous challenges have emerged, including incomplete upstream data feeds and a lack of interoperability between core systems, leading to multiple workarounds and manual processes that increase cost and risk of error. As a result, firms dedicate significant amounts of labor to perform repetitive, rule-based efforts, such as managing exceptions.

As multiple industries transition to a digital world, RPA will become an inherent part of any digital roadmap. PuďliĐis.SapieŶt's ĐoŶsultiŶg, teĐhŶologLJ aŶd iŶdustrLJ kŶoǁledge ǁill eŶaďle these firŵs to transform their operations by implementing and deploying UiPath's proǀeŶ end-to-end, intelligent automation platform.

UiPath's RPA platforŵ automates those repetitive duties through a business-owned, IT-supported digital workforce that allows operations staff to be re-focused on more strategic and value-added tasks.

Publicis.Sapient's methodology for RPA delivers market-leading results, including time to business value, traŶspareŶĐLJ iŶto KPI's for ďusiŶess edžeĐutiǀes, seĐuritLJ, ŵaŶageaďilitLJ aŶd arĐhiteĐtural iŶtegratioŶ for CIO's. This helps each client fully realize the efficiency and cost benefits that highly scalable, robotic workforces automating manual process and workflows can deliver.

The collaboration has already seen successful implementations for processing and managing unstructured data for financial services and energy firms, including large integrated oil majors to midstream and fuel retailers. The two firms have also delivered a logistics project using RPA to reduce the time taken to perform tasks and improve safety through regular, automated audits.

͞RPA is becoming a major enterprise enabler in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of an orgaŶizatioŶ's operatioŶs aŶd serǀiĐe deliǀery, aŶd as a fouŶdatioŶ for digital traŶsforŵatioŶ. We are excited to partner with UiPath to offer intelligent automation capabilities to our clients,͟commented Rashed Haq, global lead for AI, Data and Robotics, at Publicis.Sapient. ͞Where the appliĐatioŶ of RPA becomes interesting is when it is combined with more advanced, cognitive artificial intelligence tools to deliver intelligent process automation. We are developing these tools to deliver processes with pre-programmed functions, offering the potential to make autonomous decisions using a sophisticated rules eŶgiŶe ďased oŶ learŶiŶg algorithŵs.͟

͞We'ǀe seeŶ RPA driǀe sigŶifiĐaŶt proĐess iŵproǀeŵeŶts for orgaŶizatioŶs iŶ the fiŶaŶĐial serǀiĐes, eŶergy aŶd Đoŵŵodities seĐtors,͟ said Ashim Gupta, chief customer success officer, UiPath. ͞By taking on time-intensive tasks, like data entry, RPA empowers organizations to more effectively tackle operations - driving faster, better decisions that support their core missions. Through our partnership with Publicis.Sapient, we are positioned to help more organizations utilize RPA to digitally transform and operate iŶ a ŵore strategiĐ, sophistiĐated ǁay.͟

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About Publicis.Sapient

Publicis.Sapient, the Digital Business Transformation hub of Publicis Groupe, is purpose-built to help businesses transform for the digital age, enabling seamless adaptation to a world where consumer behavior and technology disruption are catalyzing social and commercial change. With 19,000 people and 100 offices around the globe, our expertise spanning technology, data sciences, consulting and creative enables us to deliver on complex traŶsforŵatioŶ iŶitiatiǀes that aĐĐelerate the eǀolutioŶ, groǁth aŶd ǀalue for our ĐlieŶts' ďusiŶesses. For more information, visitwww.publicis.sapient.com.

About UiPath

Built for both business and IT, UiPath is the leading platform for enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA). More than 700 enterprise customers and government agencies use UiPath's Enterprise RPA platform to rapidly deploy software robots that perfectly emulate and execute repetitive processes, boosting business productivity, ensuring compliance and enhancing customer experience across back-office and front-office operations.

With a thriving RPA developer community of more than 120,000 worldwide, UiPath is on a mission to democratize RPA aŶd support a digital ďusiŶess reǀolutioŶ. Based iŶ Neǁ York CitLJ, UiPath's preseŶĐe extends to 14 countries throughout North America, Europe and Asia. The company is backed by $183M in series A & B funding from Accel, CapitalG, KleiŶer, PerkiŶs, Caufield & BLJers, Credo VeŶtures, EarlLJďird's Digital East FuŶd aŶd SeedĐaŵp. UiPath's Series B valuation exceeded $1 billion.

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