A bot where it must,
integration where it should.
RPA Consulting across UiPath, Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere
MDI assesses the RPA landscape and delivers across UiPath, Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere for industrial back-office and operations — the screen re-keying, the month-end grind, the legacy system with no API. We help you choose the right platform, work with the estate you already run, and stay honest about where a proper integration is the sounder call than a bot. First working flow live in about six weeks.
RPA Decision
Bot vs integration · per process
The landscape
A bot breaks when a screen moves.
Where an API exists, integration is the sounder path — so we use it wherever we can.
Who this is for
RPA built around the person who owns the process
RPA consulting for manufacturing, FMCG and supply chain teams — bots across UiPath, Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere and, where it is the sounder call, a proper integration, mapped to the manual work each leader is trying to remove.
Operations Director
The problem
Your people spend hours re-keying orders, dockets and confirmations between a legacy screen and the ERP because nothing connects the two — and the errors from manual keying land downstream.
What we build
Bots in UiPath, Blue Prism or Automation Anywhere for the genuine no-API screens, each built defensively and monitored — not left to fail silently — with a proper integration where the source supports one.
Screen re-keying taken off your team, not off the top of the IT queue
Finance / Shared-Services Lead
The problem
Month-end back-office work — downloading statements, pulling reports, reconciling by hand — eats the first week of every cycle, and it never reaches the top of the IT backlog because it only hurts for a few days.
What we build
Bots on your chosen RPA platform that run the repetitive close steps on a monitored machine, with an audit trail and a named owner alerted when a run fails.
The month-end grind runs on its own, with a trail you can produce on request
IT Head
The problem
Shadow scripts and unmanaged bots hold processes together on personal laptops — no inventory, no monitoring, no audit trail — and you find out one exists only when it breaks or the person who built it is on leave.
What we build
Every bot — UiPath, Blue Prism or Automation Anywhere — stood up on managed machines with monitored credentials, a run-and-connection inventory, and run history your team can see.
Every bot visible, governed and owned — not hidden on a desktop
Process Owner
The problem
You were told the legacy system has no API, so a bot is the only way — but you have watched RPA bots break the moment a screen changed and quietly stop without anyone noticing.
What we build
An honest read on each process: a defensively-built bot only where there is genuinely no API, and a proper Azure Data Factory integration where the source supports it, so the durable work does not sit on a fragile bot.
Automation that fits the process — a bot where it must, integration where it should
The Problem
Where manual re-keying survives in industrial operations
These four patterns show up in most operations we walk into. Some are a genuine case for RPA. Some are a case for integration dressed up as an RPA request. Telling the two apart is the first thing we do.
A person re-keys the same figure between two screens all day.
The order lands in the portal, someone reads it off one screen and types it into the ERP on another. No API between the two, so it has been a manual job for years. This is the honest case for RPA — a bot in UiPath, Blue Prism or Automation Anywhere drives the screen the way the person does, and the re-keying stops.
Month-end back-office grind eats the first week of every cycle.
Statements downloaded one at a time, reports pulled from three systems, figures pasted into a workbook and reconciled by hand. Most of it is repetitive screen work that nobody has had the time to automate because it only hurts for five days a month — so it never reaches the top of the IT queue.
You bought an RPA platform and are not sure it was the right one.
A UiPath, Blue Prism or Automation Anywhere licence is already on the books, a handful of bots are running, and nobody is certain the platform fits the processes you actually have. We assess the estate honestly — which bots earn their keep, which should have been integrations, and whether the tool you chose is the one to keep building on.
The legacy system has no API — so integration was ruled out.
An old ERP client, a bank portal, a customs site, a supplier system with no feed. The right answer here may well be a bot on the screen. But often the same vendor has an API you were never told about, or a file export that a proper integration can read — and that route does not break when a screen changes. We check before we automate.
What we build
Five ways we take on the manual work — a bot only where it belongs
Not an RPA platform rollout. Specific automations, each scoped to a named process — and where a process should never have been a bot, we say so and integrate instead.
Assess the landscape — UiPath, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere
Replaces
The platform decision made under pressure, before anyone had sorted which processes are genuine bot candidates and which systems sit behind them.
- A vendor-aware read across UiPath, Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere, matched to the processes and systems you actually run
- We help you choose on fit and total cost, not on which badge a consultancy happens to hold
- On a Microsoft estate, Power Automate RPA is usually the pragmatic choice — covered under our Power Platform Consulting
- You leave with a platform recommendation you can defend, not a licence someone talked you into
The platform fits the processes and the systems behind them — chosen on evidence, not on a sales pitch.
Screen automation for no-API systems — the honest RPA case
Replaces
The person re-keying orders, invoices or statements between a legacy screen and the ERP because there is no integration between them.
- Bots in UiPath, Blue Prism or Automation Anywhere that open the application, key the values, read the result and confirm it landed — for the systems that genuinely have no API
- Built defensively — waiting on screen elements rather than fixed delays, checking state before each step, so a slow load does not corrupt a run
- Attended or unattended, run on a monitored machine, not a macro on someone personal desktop
- A named owner is alerted when a run fails — the bot does not fail silently and leave a gap nobody notices
The screen re-keying stops. The touchless steps run on a monitored machine, not a person’s afternoon.
Deliver on the estate you already run
Replaces
The existing UiPath, Blue Prism or Automation Anywhere estate that has grown fragile, with bots nobody is sure still earn their keep.
- Where you have already invested in a platform, we deliver on it and work with the skills your team has
- A portfolio read on the running bots — which are steady, which are fragile, which should have been integrations
- Fragile bots rebuilt defensively or retired in favour of a proper integration where the source supports it
- We assess and deliver as vendor-aware practitioners — no claim to a certified partnership we do not hold
The estate you own gets steadier and better governed, without a rip-and-replace you did not ask for.
Integration instead of a bot — where it is the sounder call
Replaces
The RPA request for a process whose source system has an API all along — a bot that would break the first time a screen moved.
- We check every candidate for an API, an OData feed or a file export before we reach for screen automation
- Where one exists, we move the process onto a proper integration on Azure Data Factory or a native connector into a governed Microsoft Fabric model
- The integration route survives screen changes, vendor updates and volume that a UI bot cannot
- Full detail on this path lives on our data integration work — RPA and integration are the same decision, made per process
The processes that should never have been bots become durable integrations, not maintenance debt.
Govern the bots — visible, owned, monitored
Replaces
The shadow bots and unmonitored desktop scripts that hold a process together until the person who built them is on leave.
- Every bot and connection stood up on managed machines with monitored credentials — visible to IT, not an admin login on a personal desktop
- Run history, ownership and an inventory of what exists, so no automation is a black box on one machine
- Where bots write or move data, they land into a governed Microsoft Fabric model so automation and reporting read the same numbers
- Ungoverned bots on unmonitored desktops become a compliance and security problem inside a year — we stand the governance up as part of the build
Automation becomes owned and auditable, not a hidden dependency on one person’s laptop.
How we work
From candidate list to first working flow in about six weeks
We start by sorting the work — genuine bot candidate or better solved by integration — before we build anything. The first flow goes live fast, on a fixed scope, not after a discovery deck.
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Discover — sort the candidates, bot versus integration
One to two weeks. We sit with the people doing the manual work and map the most repetitive, error-prone processes. Then we sort each one honestly: genuine RPA candidate (no API, screen re-keying) or better solved by a proper integration. You get a ranked list and the reasoning, before any build.
02
Build the first flow — live in about six weeks
We build the top candidate — a bot on your chosen platform, UiPath, Blue Prism or Automation Anywhere, or an integration if that is the sounder call — test it with the people who own the process, and hand it over with documentation and a named owner. First working output in about six weeks, not a roadmap.
03
Scale and govern — a portfolio, not a pile of bots
We stand the bots up on monitored machines with an inventory and named owners, run an enablement session for your team, and work through the prioritised backlog. Your team learns to build the next one. By the end, the estate is owned, not sprawling — on whichever platform you run.
Technology stack
RPA Platforms
Microsoft Estate
Integration
Data & Governance
Source Systems
Output
Why MyData Insights
Why choose MDI for RPA consulting
Vendor-aware, not vendor-tied
We work across UiPath, Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere and help you choose on fit and cost — not on a certified badge we would be trying to sell you. We assess the landscape and deliver the right approach for the processes you have.
Honest about where RPA fits
We sort every candidate into bot versus integration before we build. A bot goes on the screen only when a system genuinely has no API — where an API exists, we say so and integrate instead.
We deliver on the estate you run
Already invested in UiPath, Blue Prism or Automation Anywhere? We deliver on that platform and work with the skills your team has — no rip-and-replace you did not ask for.
Bots built defensively
Bots wait on screen elements rather than fixed delays, check state before each step, and alert a named owner on failure — so a slow load or a moved field does not corrupt a run in silence.
Integration when it is the sounder call
Where a process should never have been a bot, we move it onto Azure Data Factory or a native connector into a governed Microsoft Fabric model — durable work, not maintenance debt.
Handover, not dependency
We document each build and train a named internal owner to run and extend it — the goal is your team building and maintaining the next one, not a permanent retainer.
Common questions
What buyers ask us
Which RPA platforms do you work with?
We work across the major RPA platforms — UiPath, Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere — and we help you choose the right one for the processes you actually have rather than pushing a single tool. Where you already run one of them, we deliver on that estate and work with what your team knows. On a Microsoft estate, Power Automate RPA is usually the pragmatic choice, and that sits under our Power Platform Consulting. We are vendor-aware rather than tied to one badge: the point is to match the platform to the process and the systems behind it, not to sell you a licence.
When is RPA the right tool, and when is it the wrong one?
RPA earns its place when a system genuinely has no API and a person is re-keying between screens — a legacy portal, an old ERP client, a supplier site with no feed. A bot in UiPath, Blue Prism or Automation Anywhere drives that screen the way the person does. It is the wrong tool when the source system has an API. If the data can move through a proper integration on Azure Data Factory or a REST connector, that route does not break when someone moves a button on the screen. We start every engagement by sorting your candidates into those two piles, because putting a bot on a process that should have been integrated is the most common way RPA programmes rot.
We already run UiPath, Blue Prism or Automation Anywhere. Can you work with our existing estate?
Yes. Where you have already invested in UiPath, Blue Prism or Automation Anywhere, we deliver on that platform and work with the estate and the skills your team already has — we do not arrive telling you to rip it out. What we bring is an honest read on the portfolio: which bots are earning their keep, which are fragile because they automate a screen that had an API behind it all along, and which processes would be steadier as a proper integration. We assess the landscape and deliver on your platform; we do not claim to be a certified partner of any single vendor, because vendor-neutral advice is worth more to you than a badge.
Our RPA bots keep breaking. Why does that happen and how do you prevent it?
UI automation breaks because it depends on the screen staying still — a layout change, a new field, a slower load and the bot is clicking the wrong place. This is true of any RPA platform, UiPath, Blue Prism or Automation Anywhere alike, and most fragile bots are fragile because they were built to automate a screen that had a perfectly good API behind it. We prevent it two ways: first, by only using screen automation where there is genuinely no API, so the surface area for breakage is small; second, by building the bots defensively — waiting on elements rather than fixed delays, checking the screen state before each step, and alerting a named owner when a run fails rather than failing silently. Where a system has an API, we move the process onto a proper integration so there is nothing to break.
How does RPA fit with a governed data and integration estate?
RPA should be one governed tool in the estate, not a pile of bots running on unmonitored desktops. Whether you run UiPath, Blue Prism or Automation Anywhere, we stand the bots up on managed machines with monitored credentials, an inventory of what exists, and run history your IT team can see — not an admin login on someone personal laptop. Where a bot captures or moves data, it should land into a governed Microsoft Fabric model, so the automation and the reporting read the same numbers. Ungoverned bots become a compliance and security problem inside a year; we stand the governance up as part of the build.
How much does an RPA engagement cost and how fast do we see the first result?
We work in fixed-scope phases, not open-ended time and materials. The fee is quoted after a short discovery, once we have seen the actual processes, the systems behind them, which platform you run or should run, and which candidates are genuine bots versus integration jobs — because that mix is what sets the effort. What we commit to upfront is the cadence: first working flow live in about six weeks, not a slide deck. Book the free Automation Opportunity Review and you leave with a sorted list of candidates and the shape of the first build.
Engagement
Free Automation Opportunity Review
Thirty minutes with Amit on your most manual, error-prone processes — the re-keying between screens, the month-end downloads, the legacy system with no API. We tell you which ones are genuine RPA candidates, which platform fits — UiPath, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere or Power Automate on a Microsoft estate — and which are better solved by a proper integration. No slides, no obligation.
What you get
- A map of your most manual, error-prone processes
- Which are genuine RPA candidates, and which are better solved by integration
- A platform read across UiPath, Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere for the work you have
- A governance and ownership read on any bots already running
- A 6-week plan to your first working flow
Ready to move
Start with the process, not the platform
First call is 30 minutes with Amit. Walk us through three or four processes that are currently done by hand. We tell you which ones an RPA bot can take on, which platform fits, which are better solved by a proper integration, and what the build looks like. No slides. No pitch deck. No obligation to proceed.