RoboSource Blog
Who is RoboSource? I thought your name was EduSource!
We are RoboSource – two brands, one mission, one company. And yes, until 2021, we went by EduSource. Our story starts in 2012, with two former college roommates and a big dream. "What if," they pondered, "we outsourced software work to local university students rather...
What is RPA?
What is RPA? When I first heard about Robotic Process Automation (or RPA), my thoughts went to the robotic arms in an auto factory, or some sci-fi movie where the robots outsmart the people and take over the world. In reality TechTarget.com defines RPA as “the use of...
How to Thrive in a COVID Environment
Our Director of Sales Brett Ridoux speaks about helping your business thrive, rather than just survive, in this COVID environment. If you want to chat with Brett about how to get more information out of your company's data, drop him an email at...
Case Study: Parsing Data for a Local Nonprofit
The Problem: An Indianapolis-based nonprofit that regulates student athletes receives student transcripts from high schools around the country. The transcripts contain the required information, but in thousands of different formats. As a result, employees had to enter...
Case Study: Customized Management System
The Problem: The service operations division of an American Fortune 500 manufacturing company has service facilities all over the world. These facilities did not have a mechanism for documenting and tracking whether the physical appearance and processes in each...
Case Study: Data Cleansing Through Machine Learning
RoboSource Speciality: Data Cleansing Via Machine Learning The Problem Our client is a nonprofit that since 1997 has developed STEM curricula for use in US schools from pre-K through high school across all 50 states. This company's data system had 5.5 million...
Case Study: Interpreting Medical Data
RoboSource Specialty: Data Analytics The RoboSource team can craft all kinds of custom software, but one of our sweet spots is big data cleanup and data analytics. We use that when interpreting medical data. If you aren't getting the information you need out of your...
What We Learned in 2018: Stand Strong on Principles
To wrap up 2018, RoboSource founder and president Jason Beutler sat down (briefly ... you'll see!) to talk to me about what he learned this year: Kendra: So ... not to give you a crazy-loaded question, but what's your biggest take-away from 2018? Jason:...
Objectives / Key Results: Our New Journey
Objectives & Key Results What led us to Objectives / Key Results (OKRs)? RoboSource has long emphasized goal setting. Each employee sets a quarterly goal, and we keep track them of their completion on an office wall. We celebrate when people meet them, and try...
Meet a New RoboSource Employee: Brett Ridoux
In late October, Brett Ridoux fell in our laps. Seriously. We were connected by mutual friends, and decided to talk to him to be nice. After all, we weren’t in the market for a Director of Sales. But once we talked to Brett, we immediately knew that adding him to our...