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KDDI subsidiaries in America, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam certified as UiPath Gold Partners

Certification as a UiPath Gold Partner was granted to KDDI Corporation’s overseas subsidiaries KDDI America, KDDI Singapore and KDDI Thailand in January 2020, and to KDDI Vietnam in February 2020.

UiPath Inc. (HQ: USA, CEO: Daniel Dines) is a leader in the field of Robotic Process Automation (RPA), with sales to over 6,000 companies globally, including over 1,500 companies in Japan. In 2019, half of the top 50 companies in the Fortune Global 500 were UiPath customers.

The Gold Partner certification is granted by UiPath to authorized resellers who fulfill requirements showing that they possess a higher level of technological and support capability and extensive experience in selling and implementing UiPath solutions.

With KDDI’s existing UiPath Gold Partner certification in China, the KDDI group has Gold Partner certifications in 5 countries. These certifications signify that KDDI can provide a high level of technical support for UiPath solutions matched to customers’ business efficiency needs in an increased number of regions.

KDDI provides one-stop service, from RPA implementation to operation and maintenance, as it strongly supports customers’ global business and creates new value and experiences.

1. Territories in which KDDI provides UiPath implementation and operation solutions:

The Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Myanmar, Cambodia, India, the United Arab Emirates, Australia, the United States of America, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Turkey, Russia, and more.
*Additional territories to be added

2. About the UiPath RPA platform:

The UiPath platform makes it possible to quickly and easily automate tasks, improve productivity, customer experiences and job satisfaction, and otherwise promote digital transformation. For details please see our homepage at: https://global.kddi.com/products_services/detail2/uipath-with-kddi.html.

Contact form:
(https://global.kddi.com/contact/detail/id=18)

3. About UiPath:

UiPath is leading the “automation first” era – championing a robot for every person and enabling robots to learn new skills through AI and machine learning. Through free and open training, UiPath is led by a commitment to bring digital era skills to millions of people around the world, thereby improving business productivity and efficiency, employee engagement and customer experience.

The company’s hyperautomation platform combines the #1 Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution with a full suite of capabilities that enable every organization to scale digital business operations at unprecedented speed. The company has already automated millions of repetitive, mind-numbing tasks for businesses and government organizations all over the world including approximately 50% of the Fortune 500.

UiPath was recently recognized as the top company on Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the fastest public and private technology companies in North America, and #3 on the 2019 Forbes Cloud 100.

About KDDI

KDDI is telecommunication service provider in Japan, offering both mobile and fixed-line communications. With its well-established base of over 40 million customers, and through mobile services and shops offering its “au” brand, KDDI is expanding its services into the “Life Design” business, which includes e-commerce, fintech, nationwide electric power utility services, entertainment and education. With a 60-year history, KDDI is now focusing on creating smart infrastructure through IoT technologies and open innovation with partners and start-up companies in diverse industries. KDDI is accelerating the global growth of its telecommunications consumer business, with operations in Myanmar and Mongolia, and in the global ICT business with the “TELEHOUSE” brand. KDDI (TYO:9433) is listed on the Tokyo stock exchange. http://www.kddi.com/english/.

*This press release is an abridged translation of the press release announced in Japan.
https://news.kddi.com/kddi/business-topic/2020/03/4306.html

KDDI begins sales of ABBYY OCR software in Asia, North America, Europe and Australia regions

Using FlexiCapture(R) and the UiPath RPA platform together

As of Jan. 9, 2020, KDDI has become a recognized partner of ABBYY Japan (Headquarters: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture; President & CEO: Yo Ohara; hereafter “ABBYY”) and begun offering for sale “FlexiCapture(R)” and other OCR[1]-related ABBYY products in Asia, North America, Europe and Australia.

ABBYY is a global leading company in the field of OCR-related software. It has local offices in 11 countries and provides service in over 200. ABBYY’s product “FlexiCapture(R)” is an intelligent platform that can recognize with high accuracy the text on paper documents in a variety of formats and languages and extract specific data fields from it.

Furthermore, FlexiCapture can be used in combination with RPA[2] to automate an entire process, from scanning the text of paper documents to inputting that data to a database. Such automation can reduce manual workload for many tasks such as categorization of scanned data, confirmation of its contents, and input of the data. KDDI offers both FlexiCapture and the UiPath RPA platform[3] to boost customers’ efficiency effort, and together with solving automation challenges, supports customers in making their digital transformation (DX).

For more information about ABBYY FlexiCapture, please see: https://global.kddi.com/products_services/detail2/abbyy-flexicapture.html.

The KDDI corporate group promotes an “integration of telecommunications and life design” and endeavors to be “companies that contribute to the sustainable growth of society”, who provide strong support for customers’ global business deployments and create new value experiences.

Notes:
[1] “OCR” is an abbreviation of “Optical Character Recognition/Reader”. OCR is technology to load in handwritten or printed text from scans of paper documents, digital camera photos, etc. and convert it to data usable by computers.
[2] RPA is an abbreviation of “Robotic Process Automation”.
[3] May 23, 2018 press release:
KDDI overseas subsidiaries sign resale contract with UiPath SRL to market UiPath RPA Platform — Helping boost productivity for companies throughout Asia with full support from RPA implementation to operation https://news.kddi.com/kddi/corporate/english/newsrelease/2018/05/23/3171.html

About KDDI

KDDI is telecommunication service provider in Japan, offering both mobile and fixed-line communications. With its well-established base of over 40 million customers, and through mobile services and shops offering its “au” brand, KDDI is expanding its services into the “Life Design” business, which includes e-commerce, fintech, nationwide electric power utility services, entertainment and education. With a 60-year history, KDDI is now focusing on creating smart infrastructure through IoT technologies and open innovation with partners and start-up companies in diverse industries. KDDI is accelerating the global growth of its telecommunications consumer business, with operations in Myanmar and Mongolia, and in the global ICT business with the “TELEHOUSE” brand. KDDI (TYO:9433) is listed on the Tokyo stock exchange. http://www.kddi.com/english/.