Are you ready for the Future of Robotization? - A repertoire of RPA’s insights!

Are you ready for the Future of Robotization?

– A repertoire of RPA’s insights!

Introduction:

Robotic Process Automation is the technology that allows anyone today to configure computer software, or a “robot” to emulate and integrate the actions of a human interacting within digital systems to execute a business process. RPA robots utilize the user interface to capture data and manipulate applications just like humans do. They interpret, trigger responses and communicate with other systems in order to perform on a vast variety of repetitive tasks. An RPA software robot never sleeps, makes zero mistakes and costs a lot less than an employee. RPA is the use of software with AI and ML capabilities to handle high-volume, repeatable tasks that previously required humans to perform. These tasks can include queries, calculations, and maintenance of records and transactions.

“In layman’s terms, RPA is the process by which a software bot uses a combination of automation, computer vision, and machine learning to automate repetitively, high-volume tasks that are rule-based and trigger-driven.”

RPA scenarios range from something as simple as generating an automatic response to an email to deploying thousands of bots, each programmed to automate jobs in an ERP system. The main goal of the RPA process to replace repetitive and boring clerical tasks performed by humans, with a virtual workforce. RPA does not require the development of code, nor does it require direct access to the code or database of the applications.

So, when we summarize all these terms together, then mimicking human actions to perform a sequence of steps, leading to meaningful activity, without any human intervention is also known as RPA

How it works?

Clearly, RPA is a technology. It is not a programming language or a tool. To implement this technology, we have a lot of tools. There is software available in the market which lets you configure automation workflows to automate your business operations. RPA is powerful because the flows can be very complex and handle small errors without the process of stopping. RPA allows us to pretend that a human worker is performing tasks on a computer. This could be a Windows program (like excel or access), an API or programming interface or even a webpage/web application.

Flows are created that map a human process like opening a website, searching for a person, finding their contact details and copying and pasting those into another system. RPA is powerful because the flows can be very complex and handle small errors without the process of stopping.

Currently, practitioners divide RPA technologies into three broad categories: probots, knowbots, and chatbots

• Probots are bots that follow simple, repeatable rules to process data
• Knowbots are bots that search the internet to gather and store user-specified information
• Chatbots are virtual agents who can respond to customer queries in real-time.

Prerequisites:

• Simple RPA: Automation of any routine tasks where there is no need for intelligence is termed as Simple RPA. For example, Data Entry jobs
• Cognitive RPA: Cognitive RPA involves human action/command for RPA processing. For example, using Google assistant

• Analyze and Identify: Step one of RPA life cycle is to analyze a business problem for RPA development. Processes which can be automated are identified, timelines for the development is decided, the approach is documented, and approval is obtained from stakeholders to start the development
• Implement: RPA developers work on the requirements in the development environment to automate the manual processes
• Testing: In this phase, bots are tested to evaluate the quality and to correct errors if any
• Go Live: After the bot is tested thoroughly, it would be deployed into the live-environment where users start using it. It enters the maintenance phase where support and change requests for the bot are entertained and defects are fixed with immediate effects
• Back Office Robots: These robots will run unattended. They are in batch mode. They run in virtual environments. Not supervised by anyone. These send heartbeats to the server, so that it knows instantly when a robot is down. Back office robots help in error reduction and are cost-effective
• Front Office Robots: These share the same workstation as an employee who has control over where and when it is used. These are stand-alone and they need human interference. The user triggers these robots and they run only under manual surveillance
• RPA 2.0: Robotic process automation 2.0, often referred to as "unassisted RPA" is the next generation of RPA related technologies

Advantages:

• Better accuracy and Enabling better customer service
• Creating cost savings for manual and repetitive tasks
• Improved compliance
• Super scalable, Increased speed and productivity
• Large numbers of the process can easily have automated
• Effective, seamless Build & Release Management
• Real time visibility into bug/defect discovery
• No Human Interference

Disadvantages:

• Elimination of jobs
• Costly

Applications:

• Banking, Financial Services and Insurance
• Legal, Ports and Utilities
• Medical and Healthcare
• Logistics, Mining and Hospitality
• HR, Media and Telecom
• SCM, Manufacturing & Retail
• Travel & Logistic
• Government and Infrastructure

Developer-Take-A-Ways!

• BluePrism, Automation Anywhere, UIPath, NICE, WorkFusion, EdgeVerve, Kryon, Pega Systems, Redwood, Contextor, Kofax, Softomotive, Epiance, Jacada, OpenConnect, Vennt, Conduent, Celaton, IPSoft, Thoughtonomy, TCS RPA Lab and Genpact Cora
• https://www.udemy.com/course/robotic-process-automation/
• C#, C++, Java, .NET, HTML, JavaScript, SQL or NoSQL, AI, Agile development methodology, and ML
• https://mindmajix.com/rpa-training

Conclusion:

It allows organizations to automate task just like a human being was doing them across applications and systems. The main goal of the RPA process to replace a repetitive and boring clerical task performed by humans, with a virtual workforce. RPA allows to integrate tools without proper API and avoids dead-ends in integrating legacy systems. There is a lot of prospective future to successfully endeavor the ocean RPA tools and mechanisms. It’s a great place to innovate and kickstart new technologies.

I’m going to share a bunch of tools for developers at the Developer Take-A-Ways Section of the story, but feel free to comment, share or send me any other interesting videos or links you might have found. ✌ It’s a massive opportunity to work on. I hope you found this article useful.

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