UiPath and Microsoft to bring new cloud automation solutions

Microsoft has extended its collaboration with automation software company UiPath to bring new automation experiences and integrations in the cloud. 

Microsoft Azure is the preferred cloud platform for UiPath, while UiPath is an enterprise automation partner at Microsoft. The latest agreement sees the pair working on more automation solutions powered by Microsoft Azure to market by using UiPath automation capabilities within Microsoft Office.  

UiPath has more than 80 integrations within its business automation platform across Office 365 and Teams in modern work, Power Platform and Dynamics 365 in business applications and cognitive services and SQL Azure in the Azure Data and AI solution areas. As part of the partnership, Microsoft is helping UiPath and joint customers expand upon these market-leading integrations in the Microsoft platform and offerings, the company said.  

UiPath co-founder and co-CEO Daniel Dines, said that are companies are “helping customers realize and achieve the business value of automation at scale”. 

The duo also plans to integrate UiPath cloud products and services with a range of Microsoft commercial cloud services, publish UiPath products on the Azure Marketplace, and jointly market industry-specific solutions, among other activities. 

UiPath will be available for purchase directly in the Azure Marketplace and via private offers and will integrate with Microsoft Power Platform by early 2023, the company said in a statement. 

The announcement came as UiPath also released new features to support pp development and expand automation use cases. These include updates to UiPath Studio Web, a browser-based automation development tool, aimed at bringing automation creation to cross-platform users and distribute automation at scale across an organisation. 

UiPath said tha it’s also leveraged its acquisition of Re:infer, a natural language processing (NLP) company focused on unstructured documents and communications, in August this year, to add communications mining to the platform so users can analyse emails, documents, chat logs and social messages for business data and new opportunities for automation.