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by finger 1927 days ago
I don’t know if you can consider them a competitor but Kofax RPA, formerly known as Kapow Software / Kapow Katalyst is a powerful one I used many many years ago. I think the original product dates back to the 90s. You build a flow-diagram like process, with the possibility for a full suite of tools for a complete automation setup.

I think this might be more catered towards enterprises. But from what I remember they had tools for everything, and making a bot for a website would only take a few minutes from start to finish.

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Ah yes, Kapow! This is like 'OG RPA' (...the technical definition)

Many people forget that RPA is over 20 years old. UiPath basically took very old technology, modernised it, and re-applied it to new markets to become a $35 billion company (as of 2021).

The OG Browser RPA solution is iMacros, incidentally, which is now 20 years old! We aim to also modernise what they tried to do and take it to new markets. I guess time will tell whether we succeed at that re-application, like UiPath did on the desktop.