Yesterday, the top RPA company UiPath announced it has acquired Cloud Elements, an API integration platform. With this acquisition, UiPath continues to lead innovation in the automation market, this time believed to be the first provider to offer enterprise-grade user interface (UI) and API-based automation capabilities in a single platform. The amount of the deal hasn’t been disclosed yet.
Founded in October 2012, Cloud Elements is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, serves customers worldwide, and has a wide customer base, including leading companies like SAP, Capital One, DocuSign, iCIMS, FIS, Axway, PaySimple, TeamPay, Dun & Bradstreet, and Xerox.
To maximize benefits from automation, companies often require a unified and versatile UI and API-based automation approach. UiPath offers industry-leading UI automation capabilities as well as API-based native integrations with various cloud and on-premises applications including ERP and CRM. This acquisition accelerates UiPath’s ability to offer comprehensive API-based automation to its customers.
Comments
“Automating the enterprise requires connecting the enterprise. Combining our API integration and management capabilities with UiPath’s powerful offering strengthens the glue of enterprise connectivity and expands the reach and efficiency of automation projects for enterprises across the globe.”
Mark Geene, Co-Founder and CEO, Cloud Elements
“The acquisition of Cloud Elements is just one example of how we are building a flexible and scalable enterprise-ready platform that helps customers become fully automated enterprises.”
Daniel Dines, Co-Founder and CEO, UiPath