IDC has published a new IDC Innovators report titled, IDC Innovators: Artificial Intelligence--Powered Automation Solution Providers in Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan), profiling four companies that provide artificial intelligence (AI)-powered automation solutions. The four companies are: Active.AI, Clobotics, Taiger, and X0PA. AI-powered automation solution or intelligent automation is much more than intelligent robotic process automation (RPA). It is a way to support, augment, and sometimes automate many aspects of a knowledge worker--s tasks to improve operational efficiency, increase robustness and flexibility, create space for the workforce to release their creative intelligence, and kick-start the man--machine collaborative learning cycle. The rise of intelligent automation has reduced the need for human oversight over many business processes, as more technology vendors work to re-engineer complex workflows and processes.