Assigning people the tedious task of manually reviewing and manipulating documents is a sure-fire way to miss errors and introduce inaccuracies as blurry-eyed employees move between programs and cut-and-paste data. Although this is standard practice at many companies, it's a problem that Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technology is now able to solve. RPA can mimic a human's ability to gather data and put data into Excel spreadsheets. It can access disparate systems (ERP, sales, tax, etc.), review tens of thousands of documents in an hour or two (instead of several days), do so without error, and put the data in a standardized format. But RPA's advantages go far beyond imitating keystrokes and avoiding errors; RPA's speed, accuracy and formatting abilities make it an essential foundational technology for a more automated, intelligent enterprise.