UiPath outlined new partnerships with enterprise and AI software developers that significantly expand the footprint of its automation technology at its FORWARD conference in Las Vegas.
Arguably the most important relationship for strategic impact to customers and UiPath is its partnership with SAP, under which the two firms collaborated to build an SAP Solution Extension (SOLEX) that embeds UiPath functionality so customers can easily build, deploy, and maintain UiPath automations in their SAP systems.
Other major partnerships:
- With Inflection AI to integrate the UiPath Platform into the Inflection for Enterprise platform for security-focused industries to run AI agents in private clouds
- With Anthropic to integrate the latter’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet large language model to deliver new AI features in several UiPath products including Autopilot for everyone
Enterprise Software Inroads
UiPath’s partnership with SAP and its Solex deliverable embeds UiPath automation functionality within SAP’s Build Process Automation framework. That means customers will be able to more easily execute on-premises-to-cloud migrations for their ERP implementations – from SAP systems referred to as ECC and S/4HANA. Those migrations have posed considerable challenges for customers.
UiPath automations – which will be made available to customers through four SAP packaging options or SKUs – will facilitate customers’ ability to meet the “clean core” objectives SAP has laid out, namely following standardized guidelines for all elements of the core software including extensibility while limiting or eliminating technical debt.
The UiPath technology available from SAP includes task mining, orchestration, robots, test manager, and document understanding, and is expected to include the latest functionality including AI agents in the future, officials said. In practice, a customer’s SAP credentials appear within the UiPath software by virtue of the integration.
By partnering with UiPath, SAP is able to connect more easily with the diverse software programs that most customers maintain because UiPath has built a track record of supporting automations for those diverse systems. The integration will also help SAP customers accelerate cloud migrations while saving time and money.
Customers need to effect cloud transitions effectively and efficiently at the same time they’re facing C-level pressure to embrace GenAI for the business efficiencies and innovations it unlocks, according to Dhruv Asher, senior vice president of technology alliances for SAP.
“It’s not only helping when they’re moving. Some of them have moved in haste but now they need to do transformation. And maybe they have even done some clean core, but now they’ve got technical debt that they want to become more effective at,” Asher explains. “We can help across the board and that’s what makes this exciting for both of us at this point.”
Bron Hastings, senior vice president of global partners for UiPath, said this of the alliance’s benefits to customers: “It’s easier to upgrade. It’s easier to keep clean. So it’s really a healthy situation for the customers” while making it possible to support innovation going forward.
Asher and Hastings noted there are many UiPath customers who are also SAP customers and have been challenged by cloud migration complexity. They noted the partnership should deliver multiple benefits to UiPath, which has traditionally been purchased by automation teams within a business:
- It should give UiPath entrée to new buying centers and influencers, including the CIO office
- It will give UiPath new opportunities to be integrated into enterprise IT architectures in new ways
- It will add UiPath to new practices within the global systems integrators such as Deloitte and Cap Gemini, which maintain distinct practices for automation and enterprise software
- SAP’s work with Microsoft Azure for customers’ ERP cloud migrations will also strengthen UiPath’s hyperscaler partnerships, in particular with Microsoft.
Inflection and Anthropic Partnerships
UiPath’s new Inflection AI partnership delivers UiPath Autopilot integration that supports the Inflection for Enterprise private cloud and appliance solution. In so doing, it provides an important private cloud alternative for agentic automation that’s tailored to industries with highly stringent security requirements.
Inflection said it intends to make UiPath available as an option to Intel’s Tiber AI Cloud Services that leverage Intel’s new Gaudi 3 processors. Its goal: give customers an on-prem option that capitalizes on the power of Inflection AI software along with UiPath’s new agentic automation functionality.
UiPath Autopilot for everyone streamlines work by leveraging Anthropic Sonnet, UiPath Document Understanding, and UiPath Context Grounding to answer business questions, combine existing automations to complete complex tasks, and empower users to create new automations using API and UI automation.
UiPath also launched new healthcare industry software leveraging Anthropic Claude to create efficient, accurate ways to analyze medical documents, which includes providing HIPAA-compliant extraction and summarization of medical charts. The healthcare software also utilizes UiPath’s Document Understanding technology.
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