Why 50% of RPA Projects Fail: The Hidden Cost of UI Changes in Enterprise Automation

The $2.5 Billion Problem Hidden in Your Automation Strategy

Up to 50% of RPA projects fail [Ernst & Young report via ActiveBatch 2024]. For large enterprises, the average cost of a single hour of downtime now exceeds $300,000, with 41% of enterprises reporting hourly downtime costs between $1 million to over $5 million [ITIC 2024 Hourly Cost of Downtime Survey]. When enterprises analyze root causes, a pattern emerges: automation brittleness caused by UI changes.

SAP updates its interface monthly. Salesforce ships new UI features quarterly. Oracle, Workday, Microsoft—every vendor modernizes interfaces continuously. Each update represents a potential break point for traditional automation.

Your automation strategy is only as strong as its weakest UI dependency.

For CIOs and IT Directors, this isn't just a technical problem—it's a business continuity crisis. When procurement automation breaks, suppliers don't get paid. When demand forecasting automation fails, inventory decisions rely on stale data. When compliance automation stops, regulatory violations accumulate.

The question isn't whether UI changes will break your automation. It's whether your architecture can survive them.

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