Tonkean Raise, RPA Developer Skills, COBOL and Unemployment Checks - April 14th, 2020

No-Code Automation Platform Tonkean Raises $24M Lightspeed leads a $24M “Series A” into Tonkean which pitches itself as “human-in-the-loop robotic process automation”. See more at Tonkean. RPA bots: Messy tech that might upend the software business In the real world "messy" tech sometimes wins.

No-Code Automation Platform Tonkean Raises $24M

Lightspeed leads a $24M “Series A” into Tonkean which pitches itself as “human-in-the-loop robotic process automation”. See more at Tonkean.

RPA bots: Messy tech that might upend the software business

In the real world "messy" tech sometimes wins.

The 7 crucial RPA developer skills

A good overview of the skills required to be an effective RPA developer and highlights some of the more important non-coding skills required, like business process knowledge.

Appian Helps Banks Automate Lending under the CARES Act Payment Protection Program

Appian jumps right in and launches an app that allows banks to accept and process small business loans more quickly.

Why you need a digital transformation center of excellence

Why? Because, according to Ernst and Young, 30-50% of RPA initiatives end up failing. Don’t become another E&Y statistic.

Legacy Tech, The COBOL Edition

You won’t be unemployed if you know COBOL, but you might not get your unemployment check because of COBOL.

COBOL, COVID-19, and Coping with Legacy Tech Debt

“Faced with a flood of new unemployment claims stemming from the economic fallout of COVID-19, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy put out a call for COBOL programmers.”

Unemployment checks are being held up by a coding language almost nobody knows

“According to a spokesperson from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, the state was actually only a month or two away from “migrating into a new environment and away from COBOL,” before the COVID-19 pandemic hit.”

IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states

“A new initiative from IBM seeks to connect states with experienced COBOL programmers—and to train a new generation of them.”

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