After years toiling in obscurity, three startups have suddenly hit the jackpot in a corner of the enterprise-software market sprinkled with artificial intelligence. Now they are racing to one-up each other to appear the market leader. The companies are UiPath Inc., Blue Prism Group PLC and Automation Anywhere Inc. They were all founded in 2005 or earlier, but it wasn’t until the past few years that they took off after hitting on their current business automating simple back-office tasks and dubbing it “robotic process automation.”...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 17, 2018 23:06 UTC