Why fragmented tech stalls agentic automation (and what you can do about it)

You’ve invested in digital tools. So why are your teams still stuck in manual workflows? One big reason: too many disconnected tools slowing everything down.

Tool sprawl causes serious friction. It drags out automation delivery, delays business value, and drives up costs with redundant and clunky systems. It also adds technical debt—making it harder to scale automation with the governance and consistency you need.

For chief information officers (CIOs) and digital leaders, this post unpacks how agentic automation—and a new unified developer experience in UiPath Studio Web—can help you reduce tool sprawl and unlock real results.

New here? Agentic automation is an advanced strategy in intelligent enterprise automation that integrates traditional RPA, artificial intelligence, and human decision-making capabilities, fostering an ecosystem where people, robots, and AI agents work synergistically to optimize operational processes, driving efficiency and productivity. Not familiar with agentic automation? Start here.

Tool sprawl isn’t just frustrating—it’s a blocker to next-gen automation

Fragmentation happens when different teams adopt separate tools for similar jobs. Each one solves part of the puzzle, but nothing fits together cleanly. Fragmentation:

• Slows things down

• Increases costs

• Makes governance difficult

But as automation gets smarter—moving from task automation to AI-driven agents—those problems don’t just persist. They get bigger.

Agentic automation adds new layers of complexity. More integration points. Tighter collaboration between business and tech, and a greater need for governance.

Disconnected tools can’t keep up. You can’t scale agentic automation on a fragmented foundation. Start by unifying the development experience.

That’s exactly what the unified developer experience in UiPath Studio Web is built for.

Introducing the unified developer experience

Available within Studio Web, the new unified developer experience streamlines the entire automation lifecycle—so your teams can adopt and scale agentic automation faster, with less friction and a lot more impact.

Whether building a simple RPA workflow or sophisticated AI agent-driven solutions, your teams have one browser-based environment to:

• Design, build, test, and deploy automations with consistency and speed

• Bring RPA, APIs, and AI agents together—no context switching required

• Collaborate seamlessly across developers, business users, and IT

• Stay in control with guardrails that flex to fit every role

A strategic advantage for digital leaders

For CIOs, chief operating officers (COOs), and digital leaders, a unified developer experience isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s a game changer. It’s how you deliver automation faster, see business value sooner, and cut costs along the way.

Instead of juggling disconnected tools, you get one streamlined environment. That means less technical debt, fewer headaches from tool sprawl, and a lot more agility. And governance and security baked in.

Best of all, it helps your business and automation teams work better together, so you get smoother collaboration and happier employees.

This isn’t just about making development easier. It’s about helping your teams make a bigger impact with less effort.

What this means for your business

Adding tools won’t help if they don’t work together. Fragmentation isn’t just inconvenient—it’s a barrier to scale, innovation, and automation that actually delivers.

Agentic automation changes what's possible. But only if you support it with the right foundation.

With Studio Web, you can break free from fragmented tooling and unlock automation that’s smart, scalable, and enterprise ready.

What's next? If you're already a UiPath customer, your developers can try out the unified developer experience for themselves within UiPath Studio Web.

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