UiPath’s RPA solution to help Digital Workforce customers complete core operations more efficiently, accurately, securely and at scale

[May 29, 2018 LONDON & HELSINKI] – Digital Workforce, the leading robotics services company in the Nordics, today announced that it has partnered with UiPath, the leading enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company, to further expand business and operations in the Nordics. In this partnership, which began in May, Digital Workforce offers UiPath technology for organizations that have selected UiPath as their RPA tool. UiPath’s enterprise grade RPA-solutions are now available across all Digital Workforce’s offices Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Poland.

The software robot revolution is going strong in the Nordic countries. The utilisation of RPA to get rid of manual knowledge work routines and free up people for more purposeful work has expanded from the financial sector to the public sector, municipalities, healthcare, industrial companies and retail. Most commonly robotics is used in functions, such as finance & accounting, operations and customer service.

Jukka Virkkunen, one of the co-founders and partners, at Digital Workforce, said, “Since the founding of Digital Workforce in 2015 we have seen the RPA market develop and mature in the Nordics. UiPath technology continues to evolve rapidly offering many unique benefits, such as specific solutions for front-end automation and free trials. Our services are based on the market-leading and robust technologies, and we are thrilled to now provide UiPath from our Digital Workforce industrialised robot as a service platform both on private cloud and Azure. Simultaneously with the cloud development, we have invested heavily in developing UiPath competence throughout our organization.

Digital Workforce has automated over 500 processes and is the market-leading robotics company in the Nordics. The company has a strong foothold in the financial sector and is now rapidly expanding its customer base in healthcare, public sector and other knowledge-intensive large organizations. Two dozen RPA professionals are currently in the final stage of UiPath certification, and the first customer agreements have already been signed.

Anand Nagwani, UiPath Vice President, EMEA, Partnerships, said: “The Nordic region is a key focus for UiPath as we continue to grow throughout Europe. In partnership with Digital Workforce, we will introduce more organizations to the power of RPA and to dramatically improve business productivity, compliance and customer service across back-office and front-office operations. Not only will our solutions help companies become digital businesses faster, it will also help them gain a valuable advantage on the path to AI.”

About Digital Workforce
Digital Workforce is the only company specialising in Intelligent Process Automation services on an industrial scale. Our intelligent digital workers automate knowledge work processes in large organizations freeing up the time of human employees for more valuable work. The deployment of digital workers requires no changes to the existing information systems. Digital Workforce was founded in the summer of 2015 and it currently employs over 150 IPA specialists in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Poland. www.digitalworkforce.eu

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 and support a digital business revolution. Based in New York City, UiPath’s presence extends to 14 countries throughout North America, Europe and Asia. The company is backed by $183M in series A & B funding from Accel, CapitalG, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Credo Ventures, Earlybird’s Digital East Fund and Seedcamp. UiPath’s Series B valuation exceeded $1 billion.

For more information, visit https://www.uipath.com.

Media contact: Digital Workforce
Jukka Virkkunen
Partner
+358 50 670 47
jukka.virkkunen@digitalworkforce.fi

Media Contact: UiPath
Simon Coughlin
Whiteoaks International
+44 (0) 1252 727313
Uipath@whiteoaks.co.uk

Digital Workforce is a leading service provider specialising in Intelligent Automation (IA) services on an industrial scale. We offer a full suite of services, tools, and insights to support your journey through the intelligent automation life-cycle. Our cloud service is the easiest way to build an industrialised automation solution that grows flexibly with your organisation’s needs. Our RPA maintenance service also ensures that you tap into the full benefits of your automations as your robots run smoothly 24/7/365.

We offer services in the world’s leading RPA technologies, Blue Prism, UiPath, and Automation Anywhere, and build AI solutions for our customer’s around the globe.

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– Harri Lauslahti was previously the Chief Innovation Officer of LähiTapiola and before that CEO of LäpiTapiola Services Ltd. Earlier in his career he was the CEO and founder of Tapiola Bank Plc, the regional director of Handelsbanken Finland and held a series of leadership roles within banking and insurance. Harri will be responsible for creating automation solutions for banking and insurance in close co-operation with industry customers.

– Hannu Luoto joined Digital Workforce from Vaisala and in his new role he will be the leading consultant in manufacturing industry. Hannu has extensive leadership experience in manufacturing production and maintenance as well as supply-chain management and lean and six sigma methodologies.

–Teemu Vieruaho is an experienced specialist in business process development and compliance, financial processes and analytics. Before joining Digital Workforce Teemu accounted for RPA function at PwC and invented and implemented PwC Finland’s first artificial intelligence application payment.ai. In his new role Teemu will lead business consulting development and productise solutions for finance, compliance and auditing.

Digital Workforce has automated over 800 rule-based workflows in large organisations. By combining artificial intelligence with Robotic Process Automation, company’s Digital Workers can utilise unstructured source data, such as images and text, and execute more extensive processes e.g. in customer service.

“Cognitive automation tools complement RPA and enable larger volumes and more intelligent automation, which brings new business benefits. Deep industry expertise is crucial in this context. By identifying industry-specific pain points and needs, we can proactively offer intelligent solutions to our clients”, explained Heikki Länsisyrjä, one of the founders of Digital Workforce.

“We have appointed Tiina Leivo (MD, PhD and M.Sc. (Econ.)) earlier to lead our social and healthcare unit. With these three high-level key appointments we strengthen our expertise in our other key industries. Each of these three are among the top in their respective fields and successful business builders. We are extremely proud to have them join our team”, continued Länsisyrjä.

About Digital Workforce
Digital Workforce is the only company specialising in Intelligent Process Automation services on an industrial scale. Our intelligent digital workers automate knowledge work processes in large organizations freeing up the time of human employees for more valuable work. The deployment of digital workers requires no changes to the existing information systems. Digital Workforce was founded in the summer of 2015 and it currently employs over 175 IPA specialists in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Poland. www.digitalworkforce.eu

Media contacts:
Heikki Länsisyrjä, Partner, Digital Workforce, heikki.lansisyrja (at) digitalworkforce.fi +358 50 5587801

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Since its beginning Digital Workforce has been transforming business processes with the help of Digital Workers, powered by Robotic Process Automation. The company has automated over 800 processes and demonstrated that there is massive ROI in automating rule-based knowledge work tasks in large organisations across industries. Through machine learning and other artificial intelligence technologies organisations can automate even more complex tasks, and utilise also unstructured data, such as speech, images, text and sensor data as data source.

”Cognitive technologies will have a gigantic impact on business processes, both in bringing more efficiency and in generating something completely new. Our target is to extend our innovative, flexible and cost-effective cloud to cover also selected cognitive technologies. By making Intelligent and Learning Digital Workers easily available our customers can rapidly benefit from these ground-breaking technologies in addition to RPA”, said Heikki Länsisyrjä, one of the founders of Digital Workforce.

“We have funded Digital Workforce from the beginning and are delighted to continue our investment. The company is growing very fast and it employs the largest number of certified intelligent automation specialists in Northern Europe. They are a skilled team with a practical take on cognitive technologies in a rapidly growing market“, said Timo Ahopelto of Lifeline Ventures.

Digital Workforce operates currently in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Poland. With the investment the company is also investigating growth opportunities in new potential markets.

The investors in the round are Capman Growth Fund along with earlier seed investors Leena Niemistö and Lifeline Ventures.

Media contacts:
Heikki Länsisyrjä, Partner, Digital Workforce, heikki.lansisyrja (at) digitalworkforce.fi +358 50 5587801
Timo Ahopelto, Founding Partner, Lifeline Ventures, timo (at) lifelineventures.com

About Digital Workforce
Digital Workforce is the only company specialising in Intelligent Process Automation services on an industrial scale. Our intelligent digital workers automate knowledge work processes in large organizations freeing up the time of human employees for more valuable work. The deployment of digital workers requires no changes to the existing information systems. Digital Workforce was founded in the summer of 2015 and it currently employs over 175 IPA specialists in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Poland. www.digitalworkforce.eu

About Lifeline Ventures
Lifeline Ventures Oy is a venture capital firm specializing in startups, growth capital, and early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in healthcare, games, web based and general high technology sectors. Lifeline Ventures Oy was founded in November 2009 and it is based in Helsinki, Finland. www.lifelineventures.com

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Digital Workforce, the largest robotics company in the Nordics, today announced that it appoints Tuomo Sievilä as Head of Continuous Services to lead the growth of the business unit delivering Robot-as-a-Service cloud and Run Management services.

Sievilä has served as Programme Manager at Digital Workforce since March 2017 being simultaneously responsible for the company’s consultative offering. Before joining the company Sievilä worked in Nordea as the global concept owner for Robotic Process Automation. In his new role starting on September the 1st, he will be responsible for cloud customer success and service development.

“Tuomo has played a significant role in building our business consulting practice and popular 100-Day-Ramp-up concept, and he has demonstrated excellent ability to create new and drive transformation,” said Jukka Virkkunen, one of the partners and founders of Digital Workforce.

Robot as a Service cloud was launched in 2016 and today, several hundred processes have been automated through the service. Among more than 40 cloud customers there are major banks, public organisations, large industrial and retail corporations and healthcare providers in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Poland.

“It is an honour to lead our Continuous Services into the future. Majority of our customers are currently cloud customers and new clients are added weekly. The main reasons for customers to choose digital workers from cloud instead of on-premises solutions are flexibility, speed, unlimited scalability and total cost transparency. Customers can even choose to pay per minute for their digital workers”, explained Tuomo Sievilä.

“We also see a dramatic increase in demand for Run Management, where our specialists ensure maximised uptime and smooth maintenance of the robotised processes. As our robots perform more and more business-critical tasks round the clock, the importance of industrial Run Management increases. We continuously improve the service to meet the requirements of our global clients operating 24/7”, continued Sievilä.

Robot as a service is available from private and hybrid clouds offering two globally leading RPA technologies: Blue Prism and UiPath. In the future, the company plans to add a range of selected intelligent technologies based on machine learning to its cloud.

“We have invested heavily in our cloud environment and have today CE-marking and ISO 20000:1 certification. We are still the only cloud-based RPA service in the EU that can deliver CE-marked automation solutions. During last 12 months we have launched Run Management and our own IP tools, Mobile Management and Repository. Next, we will make selected intelligent technologies as easily available from our cloud as RPA is today,” said Sievilä.

About Digital Workforce
Digital Workforce is the only company specialising in Intelligent Process Automation services on an industrial scale. Our intelligent digital workers automate knowledge work processes in large organizations freeing up the time of human employees for more valuable work. The deployment of digital workers requires no changes to the existing information systems. Digital Workforce was founded in the summer of 2015 and it currently employs over 170 IPA specialists in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Poland. www.digitalworkforce.eu

Media contact

Digital Workforce
Tuomo Sievilä
Head of Continuous Services
+358 50 413 8883
tuomo.sievilä@digitalworkforce.fi

Digital Workforce
Jukka Virkkunen
Partner, Co-Founder
+358 50 670 47
jukka.virkkunen@digitalworkforce.fi

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Oslo kemnerkontor and Digital Workforce enter into an agreement on Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Digital Workforce AS will deliver digital workers to the Oslo kemnerkontor – Robotic Process Automation (RPA), thereby becoming a supplier of RPA software and services for automation of the Oslo kemnerkontors defined work processes. The agreement has a frame of 3 years with the possibility of expansion up to 7 years. The estimated total value of the agreement is NOK 10 million and is the largest in Digital Workforce AS’s history.

The Oslo kemnerkontor is the country’s largest tax collector and is a municipal agency under the Bureau of Finance in Oslo Municipality. Oslo kemnerkontor will ensure that all debtors pay taxes and fees the political authorities have adopted.

Robot Process Automation (RPA) is the use of software that enables business executives to configure the software or the “robot” to work in their existing applications with transaction processing, data manipulation, resolution of responses and communication with other digital systems or residents.

Appointment process and competence

The most important criteria for choice of supplier and solution were a good methodology for employing digital employees, as well as understanding how digital employees can meet the needs of Oslo Office. In addition, the supplier’s handling of safety requirements was best among the providers. It is also important for Oslo kemnerkontor to get advice about organization changes and competence needs to succeed with RPA in the project and on a continuous basis.

“RPA is a young software platform and we needed a supplier who has a good understanding of the best possible utilization of the chosen software platform. It was important for us to be able to support a good methodology for hiring digital employees”, says Øystein Hillestad, Development Manager at Oslo Chemicals Office.

“Digital Workforce also offers good services for lifecycle management of automated processes that will contribute to continuous improvement, high uptime and efficient digital workers”, continues Hillestad.

RPA integrated in digital strategy

Hillestad states that the agreement entered into is in line with the Oslo kemnerkontors strategy. Which adds to increased efforts for digitization. Utilizing RPA software will be one of several steps that will enable further digitization. It is a goal of this acquisition to establish better customer services and turn employee’s work away from routine work to more value-creating and interesting work tasks.

Digital Workforce focuses on the Nordic municipal market and already has many municipalities as customers, among them Mora Municipality, Järfälla Municipality, Helsinki Municipality, Espoo Municipality, Tampere Municipality and Turku Municipality.

The agreement with Oslo kemnerkontor is important for the company’s further investment in the municipal sector, according Country manager of Digital Workforce AS, Odd-Henrik Hansen.

“This is a major breakthrough for the company. The municipal sector is an important focus area where we have begun building a good Nordic customer base and solid references. That we now win this agreement is a confirmation that we meet the most comprehensive requirements and can offer high quality products and services at a reasonable price”, said Hansen.

Media contact

Digital Workforce
Odd-Henrik Hansen
Country Manager
+ 47 977 14 195
odd.henrik.hansen@digitalworkforce.no

Media contact
Oslo kemnerkontor
Øystein Hillestad, utviklingsleder, Oslo kemnerkontor
+47 957 52 608, hillestad@kem.oslo.kommune.no

About Digital Workforce
Digital Workforce is the only company specialising in Intelligent Process Automation services on an industrial scale. Our intelligent digital workers automate knowledge work processes in large organizations freeing up the time of human employees for more valuable work. The deployment of digital workers requires no changes to the existing information systems. Digital Workforce was founded in the summer of 2015 and it currently employs over 160 IPA specialists in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Poland. www.digitalworkforce.no

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Robotic Process Automation is one of the fastest ways to drive digital transformation and innovation within organisations. The potential is huge, but still many organisations struggle with the basic question, how to derive true business value with RPA?

How to get the best results from your RPA investment? And how do others use RPA in different industries and functions? Should you prepare for the new technologies allowing more intelligent and learning solutions?

Join us in our specialist breakfast seminar on Wednesday the 12th of September, 2018 at Scandic Copenhagen or Thursday the 13th of September at Scandic Aarhus. The morning seminar is intended for CDOs, Business Development Directors, CTOs, CIOs, HR- and other business directors working in large organizations and with an interest in Robotics and Intelligent Automation.

During the morning you will have a unique opportunity to hear fresh insights from the fastest growing RPA technology company UiPath, an exciting customer story and Nordic experiences and best practices from Digital Workforce, the leading robotics powerhouse in the Nordics.

The event is free of charge for our guests. Please reserve your seat quickly, since the room is limited. Your registration will be confirmed by email.

The event is organized by Digital Workforce – leading Robotics powerhouse in the Nordics, currently employing over 160 specialists – in co-operation with UiPath, the fastest growing RPA software company in the world.

The agenda:

Journey to Intelligent Automation with RPA
Rasvan Constantinescu, Technical Customer Success Director, Nordics, UiPath

Calculating ROI & Business case for RPA
Tony Minana, Country Manager at Digital Workforce Denmark

Avoid RPA POC cemeteries
Jari Annala – Digital (R)evolutionist

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Robotic Process Automation is one of the fastest ways to drive digital transformation and innovation within organisations. The potential is huge, but still many organisations struggle with the basic question, how to derive true business value with RPA?

How to get the best results from your RPA investment? And how do others use RPA in different industries and functions? Should you prepare for the new technologies allowing more intelligent and learning solutions?

Join us in our specialist breakfast seminar on Wednesday the 12th of September, 2018 at Scandic Copenhagen or Thursday the 13th of September at Scandic Aarhus. The morning seminar is intended for CDOs, Business Development Directors, CTOs, CIOs, HR- and other business directors working in large organizations and with an interest in Robotics and Intelligent Automation.

During the morning you will have a unique opportunity to hear fresh insights from the fastest growing RPA technology company UiPath, an exciting customer story and Nordic experiences and best practices from Digital Workforce, the leading robotics powerhouse in the Nordics.

The event is free of charge for our guests. Please reserve your seat quickly, since the room is limited. Your registration will be confirmed by email.

The event is organized by Digital Workforce – leading Robotics powerhouse in the Nordics, currently employing over 160 specialists – in co-operation with UiPath, the fastest growing RPA software company in the world.

The agenda:

RPA in Topdanmark Forsikring 
Stig Geer Pedersen, RPA & Machine Learning, Senior Project Manager, Topdanmark Forsikring

Journey to Intelligent Automation with RPA
Rasvan Constantinescu, Technical Customer Success Director, Nordics, UiPath

Calculating ROI & Business case for RPA
Tony Minana, Country Manager at Digital Workforce Denmark

Avoid RPA POC cemeteries
Jari Annala – Digital (R)evolutionist

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Is your organisation considering, or have you already employed digital workers – Robotic Process Automation (RPA)? Then you already know that digital workers free up employees from routine-based tasks, secure the work process quality and increase the business’ capacity to serve customers and citizens.

Robotic Process Automation shapes the job market of today and for the future. How do you employ and utilize a successful digital worker, and how do you develop the required skills and a collegial environment? How have digital workers assisted real businesses with wealth creation?

Robotic Process Automation is a modern method for innovation that creates actual profits for your business. The cost of the digitization strategy using RPA is often only a tenth of the cost of traditional IT projects.

Digital Workforce invites you to a breakfast seminar Wednesday 7. March 2018 at Tollbugata 8 (Spaces). The seminar is tailored towards leaders (CEO, CIO, CFO, CTO etc.), business developers and other business leaders working in medium to large organisations with interest for RPA and AI.

The breakfast seminar gives you a unique opportunity to hear the RPA history from one of the global leaders in RPA, Blue Prism. Codan Forsikring will hold an exciting presentation about their journey with RPA and how they have implemented and taught their digital workers. Finally, a presentation from Digital Workforce on the standardized delivery methods that have been developed to ensure a successful RPA implementation.

You can participate on the breakfast seminar gratuitously. It is a limited amount of room, and if there is not enough room for you this time, we will invite you to our next breakfast seminar. Confirmation of your participation will be sent by e-mail.

The event is organized by Digital Workforce – the leading RPA organization in the Nordics.

AGENDA
0830-0900 breakfast is served in Tollbugata 8A

Shape the future with digital workers – the road ahead together with RPA-technology
Pat Geary, Chief Evangelist, Blue Prism
This presentation is held in English

The RPA journey at Codan Forsikring – from pilot to a strategical instrument
Magnus Skarstein, RPA Analyst, Codan Forsikring

How to employ and educate your digital worker
Mads Laastad, Solutions Architect, Digital Workforce

Panel discussion
Possibility to ask presenters questions for discussion

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Is your organisation considering or perhaps already utilising Digital Workers (Robotic Process Automation) and/or AI to automate the routines of knowledge work?

Intelligent Process Automation is shaping business today. How do you build a successful virtual workforce and develop the needed skill-sets and capabilities in-house? How have others succeeded?

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has quickly become one key technology to drive business transformation and innovation. The costs of RPA are often a tenth of those related to traditional IT or integration development projects, and it’s possible to achieve tangible results very rapidly – in days or weeks.

Digital Workforce organises an invitation-only breakfast seminar on Thursday the 8th of March, 2018 at Hotel Marriott Copenhagen. The morning seminar is intended for CDO’s, Business Development Directors, CTO’s, CIO’s, HR – and other business directors working in large organizations and with an interest in Robotics and AI.

During the morning you will have a unique opportunity to hear fresh insights from the global leader in IPA technology Blue Prism, an exciting customer story from TDC and Nordic experiences and best practices from Digital Workforce.

The event is free of charge for our invited guests. Please reserve your seat quickly, since the room is limited. Your registration will be confirmed by email.

The event is organized by Digital Workforce – the leading Robotics powerhouse in the Nordics, currently employing over 130 specialists.

AGENDA

Shaping the future with Robotics – key trends in IPA technology
Pat Geary, Chief Evangelist, Blue Prism (Presentation in English)

Supporting customers from the first steps to an industrial scale
Tony Minana, Country Manager at Digital Workforce Denmark

Building client’s internal RPA capability – Typical roles and training programmes
Mika Vainio-Mattila, Partner, Digital Workforce (Presentation in English)

RPA Journey at TDC – From pilots to strategic asset
Jonas Sveistrup Søgaard, Head of Robotics – RPA at TDC

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