Direct Line to automate its two millionth transaction on Friday

Robot typing

Direct Line now automates 70,000 transactions a week and anticipates hitting the two million milestone by the end of the week, a conference heard.

Direct Line has been using robotic process automation, through which robots take over simple tasks, since 2015.

Christian Davis, Direct Line business services director, said: “We’ve got a capacity

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