Unifying Automation Silos: How Orkes Powers Gartner's Emerging BOAT Category

This whitepaper introduces Orkes Conductor as a foundational platform in the emerging Business Orchestration and Automation Technology (BOAT) category, as defined by Gartner. It presents Orkes as a unifying force across automation silos by integrating five pillars of hyperautomation— BPA, RPA, LCAP, iPaaS, and IDP —into a cohesive, developer-friendly, open-source-based platform. Through its open architecture and extensibility, Orkes removes vendor lock-in, promotes scalable orchestration, and fosters collaboration between developers and business teams. The paper explores how Orkes enables intelligent, agentic workflows using AI while maintaining human-in-the-loop governance, thus setting the stage for enterprise-wide hyperautomation maturity.

Key Takeaways:

Unified Automation: Orkes combines BPA, RPA, LCAP, iPaaS, and IDP into a single orchestration platform for end-to-end process automation.

Open and Extensible: Built on Netflix Conductor, it offers no vendor lock-in and supports custom tasks, plugins, and integrations.

Developer + Business Friendly: Supports low-code visual tools for business users and full-code APIs for developers—ideal for fusion teams.

AI-Ready and Scalable: Enables agentic workflows with integrated LLMs and scales to handle millions of workflow executions.

Proven Impact: Real-world use cases show faster automation delivery, reduced costs, and improved reliability across industries.

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