Beancounters at Gartner claim that robotic process automation (RPA) is becoming increasingly popular with large enterprises.
This means that global spend on the software will hit $680 million (£524 million) in 2018 a figure which is a 57 percent year-on-year increase from 2017.
Big G said that those adopting the technology are companies that specialise in insurance, utilities and communications and banks.
Cathy Tornbohm, vice president at Gartner said: “Typically, these organisations struggle to knit together the different elements of their accounting and HR systems,
