WESTLAKE, Ohio–Hyand, a provider of content services, has announced the acquisition of Another Monday, a German-based robotic process automation (RPA) software developer. The addition of a feature-rich, end-to-end RPA software solution that is highly configurable extends Hyland’s process automation capabilities and strengthens its content services product portfolio, the company said.
Hyland said Another Monday was positioned as a Visionary by Gartner in the Magic Quadrant for Robotic Process Automation Software 2019. Its four complementary software products will enable Hyland’s customers to augment existing process automation solutions with innovative RPA functionality, Hyland added.
“Adding RPA to Hyland’s content services platform extends and augments our low-code process automation offerings, enabling a next level of digital transformation to all of our customers,” said Bill Priemer, president and CEO of Hyland. “We look forward to getting to know our Another Monday colleagues, welcoming our new customers and partners to the Hyland community and incorporating this powerful technology into our existing solutions.”
“The RPA market is an exciting and challenging space with rapid growth and a vast number of possible applications that organizations can easily combine and integrate for better and more flexible business processes support,” said Hans Martens, CEO of Another Monday. “We see Hyland as the best fit to embed our RPA technology into their powerful automation platform, to truly implement easy, end-to-end automation for everyone.”
According to the company, now, more than ever, organizations globally face an imperative to leverage automation tools to address business challenges as part of accelerated digital transformation initiatives. The addition of RPA technology is an integral component of Hyland’s intelligent automation strategy and a natural fit for its customer base — with broad, dynamic use cases across the industries and regions Hyland serves.
Hyland said it will continue to support Another Monday’s current solutions and customers as it integrates the technology into existing platform offerings.
New User Experience
Separately, Hyland said it has released OnBase Foundation Enhancement Pack 4 (EP4) and Content Composer Foundation EP2, "delivering on its ongoing strategy to provide the most modern, feature-rich and secure content services platform." The latest set of releases improve user experience, empower mobile and remote workforces and help customers unlock additional value from the platform, the company said.
“Driven largely by input from customers, these releases build on our commitment to enhancing the user experience and helping organizations further their digital transformation journeys by supporting current business needs for increased agility and remote work,” said John Phelan, Hyland's chief product officer. “The latest enhancements expand our intelligent data capture capabilities, streamline customer communications management and strengthen solution configurability.”
Notable OnBase Foundation EP4 enhancements include:
- Improved user experience: Hyland’s enhancements across its OnBase platform extend the ability to interact with documents, make annotations and view notes. New configuration capabilities enable administrators to more easily build, configure and adapt solutions. Updates to the agenda management suite support the increased importance of virtual meetings with secure authentication and new external comment functionality. New languages were added within several product features to better serve Hyland’s global customers.
- Updated mobile capabilities: Hyland’s next-generation OnBase Mobile offering empowers remote and traveling workforces with support for both Android and iOS. The modernized mobile experience provides improved access to customers and equips organizations to effectively scale mobile access across a workforce.
- Improved upgrade process: Hyland continues to transform the upgrade process to provide the most efficient and automated experiences. A new utility in OnBase Foundation EP4 allows customers to upgrade their OnBase database in seconds.
- Enhanced APIs: Furthering Hyland’s commitment to an open architecture, enhancements to document management APIs make it easier to integrate solutions with core and extended applications.
Upgrades to Content Composer Foundation EP2 include:
- Single-sign-on (SSO) for both cloud and on-premises deployments allows a more streamlined user experience as well as a tighter integration with Hyland and other third-party solutions.