Monitored theme · Automation
Intelligent Automation: RPA and Generative AI
Monitored since March 2017 · 118 temporal technology analyses
TAIME Score over the years
Yearly average of the TAIME Score across published temporal technology analyses. Only years with data for this theme are shown.
Latest TAIME Score
66/100
in the October 2026 analysis
| Year | TAIME Score | Analyses |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 65 | 2 |
| 2018 | 72 | 10 |
| 2019 | 72 | 12 |
| 2020 | 73 | 24 |
| 2021 | 73 | 24 |
| 2022 | 70 | 25 |
| 2023 | 70 | 13 |
| 2024 | 75 | 3 |
| 2026 | 79 | 8 |
From the latest analysis · October 2026
RPA Incumbents Fuse Conversational AI With Deterministic Execution, Making Governed Orchestration the New Automation Battleground
Automation vendors are no longer competing on how many tasks a bot can record. They are competing on whether a customer's spoken request can be understood, checked against policy and completed across enterprise systems in one flow.
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