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OfficeBots Use Case: Pricing Updates for Aggregators in the Telecommunications Industry

Automation can be a wide ranging topic, and the first question people ask when discussing OfficeBots is “What are examples of what OfficeBots can do?”. Best use cases for OfficeBots The best use cases for OfficeBots are when: * data held in files (Excel, CSV and PDF in particular) need to

Life At OfficeBots

OfficeBots: (Half) Year Review

It has not been a full year since I started OfficeBots, though it was just the end of the calendar year. As we go into a new year, I wanted to share OfficeBots’ progress publicly. 😳 We always hear about startups when they have become a success, or sometimes when they

Invoice Processing Automation: challenge, options and solution.

Receiving invoices by email from suppliers and manual invoice processing, is a burden (and bottleneck) in a lot of, if not most companies. The OfficeBots platform is designed to easily build and maintain Bots, to perform repetitive back-office tasks, with each Bot being assigned its own email address to interact

How to generate dummy data for Excel

Do you need to generate dummy data? It often happens during product development, testing, for demonstration purposes, or for academia. I know we, at OfficeBots, need dummy data often. Mostly when we need to test new bots for quality assurance. I’ve used the alternatives. There are a few dummy

9 Key Benefits of Automating Your Business (with RPA)

If you have ever browsed the internet for…well, just about anything, chances are you have had the experience of chatting with a Bot – a software robot designed to perform a specific task or process. With between 40 and 50 percent of all businesses implementing robotic customer service, perhaps you

9 Criteria for Processes You Need to Automate (with RPA)

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is here to fundamentally change the way we work. With RPA, you can improve your business, run fast, efficiently, scale, while ensuring compliance requirements, and enhancing the overall quality of deliverables. It provides immediately tangible benefits that leave you to focus on higher value business goals.

How to Unhide columns in Excel (& everything else)!

Wondering how to unhide columns in Excel? Need to unhide columns in Excel? What about whole workbooks, individual cells and even formulas? Confused about why it’s important to locate and unhide all data in Excel? If you answered yes, even once, then this article is for you. I have

Best PDF compressor

PDFeeOP: How to compress a PDF the easy way

You’re not alone. Knowing how to compress a PDF file without losing quality is often necessary for many businesses. Over the last couple of months, I’ve had a lot of discussions around the lack of automation tools [http://officebots.io/bots] for boring, repetitive office tasks. Reduce a

What is RPA?

RPA stands for Robotic Process Automation. In the simplest possible terms, RPA basically means telling a computer what steps to go through to perform a task. It is a roadmap that tells a machine how to go from point A to point B, and what decisions to make in the

The Birth of a Robotic Process Automation Startup: Officebots.io's Genesis

Many people wonder how businesses grow from a lightbulb idea in the head of the founder to reality. I, for sure, have read countless founder’s stories and biographies. Startups usually follow a common trajectory – they are created to improve (even “disrupt”) how things are done, or solve a business

Smart Ways to Automate Repetitive Office Work, with ETL Solutions

As our (business) world revolves now mainly around data, stored in various systems and files, that is being passed around (internally and externally), a lot of repetitive manual office tasks include copying, pasting, verifying, cleaning and preparing data. For example: * transferring orders from one system to the other * receiving price

How to Use Task Automation to Work Smarter, not Harder

You’ve probably heard of automation workflows or Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and wonder how they can benefit your business? You’re not alone – almost everyone in front of a desktop wonders how to automate office tasks (especially automate Excel) and make their life easier. Taking the first step to