Look around: We are in the midst of a Fourth Industrial Revolution, and it’s redefining traditional ways of doing business. Emerging automation technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Robotics Process Automation (RPA), and cognitive computing are creating a seismic shift in the way humans work.

In a recent interview with Auxis CEO, Raul Vega, Nearshore Americas posed the question: “Is Costa Rica heading for Saturation?”

 Over the last 5 years, the role of the Chief Financial Officer has drastically changed as have the expectations and demands from stakeholders and CEOs. Bookkeeping and financial reporting have become a given as far as outputs from a Finance Organization. In 2019, CFOs are increasingly tasked with providing consumer insights and using financial data to propose actionable strategies for cost-cutting and growth-enablement. Clearly this is not your traditional CFO that we all have come to think of.

FAO outsourcing cuts costs, improves efficiencies, and sharpens the focus of finance teams .                                   

One of the most blogged about, talked about, and debated topics these days revolves around artificial intelligence and robotics and the myriad ways it’s going to change our lives.

If 2018 was any indication of how big the RPA space was going to be, then projections that RPA spend could reach $2.3 Billion this year and possibly $4.3 Billion by 2022 might be on the low side.

Traditionally, offshoring business processes and software development to another country has always been seen as a viable alternative to doing the work in-house, mainly because outsourcing has always been viewed as an inexpensive alternative to getting the work done.

How migrating back office tasks delivers a competitive edge in today’s business environment

8 characteristics of high-performance service desks driving productivity, efficiencies, and cost savings

Recently, Auxis CEO, Raul Vega, sat down for an interview with Nearshore Americas about what’s happening in the nearshore space for their new Faces in the Crowd section.

Organized by CXOsync, the CFO.org Chicago Summit is an invitation-only conference exclusive to senior-level Finance Executives.  Taking place on Thursday March 21^st, this is a closed door event with only ~100 invited organizations from Illinois.

A new Auxis study uncovers 50%+ outsourcing cost savings for most transactional processing positions

As most of our readers are aware by now, during the past three years Robotics Process Automation (RPA) has emerged as one of the leading technologies in the market for organizations of all industries and sizes.

The demand for cloud services continues to soar. Gone are the days when “the cloud” was simply a mysterious space to be feared or a worn-out buzzword to be ignored. 
Today’s executives are increasingly adopting cloud computing across their entire organization and leveraging everything the service has to offer.
In the process, they are improving business agility, lowering operational costs and increasing their propensity for innovation.

Millions of organizations have now adopted cloud computing, but many are still missing out on the full spectrum of benefits that the cloud can deliver.

Implementing RPA solutions has allowed many organizations to see some very powerful results.  In this blog, I will highlight some of the key “lessons learned” from implementing and operating RPA solutions. They are based on our experience in working with both our internal operations as well as with external clients.

Shared Services and Outsourcing have both proven to be a great business model for reducing operating costs and gaining greater operational scalability for your back office while maintaining a high quality of customer service.

In a recent blog post, I discussed the “hype and noise” around RPA, and shared my thoughts that, while RPA is clearly something that is coming to your back office operations, it is still somewhat of a work in progress, and that many organizations are trying to figure out how to get started on their RPA journeys.

You are hearing about it every day. According to HfS Research, there was a 63% growth in the global market for RPA software and services from 2016 to 2017. And there´s no sign of it slowing down.