Regional highlights for Asia Pacific from an IDC InfoBrief on automation.

Operational efficiency. Cost savings. Improved collaboration.

The question is not whether to automate, but how fast. Automation has sparked many organizations’ digital transformation journeys in a fast-changing world. And now more in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) are raring to go in 2022 and beyond.

Beyond robotic process automation (RPA), the region’s enterprises need to move toward intelligent process automation (IPA) to scale for growth in the digital economy.

But what stand in the way, and how can these hurdles be overcome?