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Automate it! - Recipes to upskill your business

By : Chetan Giridhar
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Automate it! - Recipes to upskill your business

By: Chetan Giridhar

Overview of this book

<p>This book gives you a great selection of recipes to automate your business processes with Python, and provides a platform for you to understand how Python is useful to make time consuming and repetitive business tasks more efficient. Python is a mature high level language, has object-oriented programming features, powers various apps, has a huge set of modules, and great community support. Python is extremely easy to use, can help you get complex tasks done efficiently and is an apt choice for our needs.</p> <p>With a classic problem-solution based approach and real-world examples, you will delve into things that automate your business processes. You will begin by learning about the Python modules to work with Web, Worksheets, Presentations and PDFs. You’ll leverage Python recipes to automate processes in HR, Finance and making them efficient and reliable. For instance, company payroll — an integral process in HR will be automated with Python recipes.</p> <p>A few chapters of this book will also help you gain knowledge on working with bots and computer vision. You will learn how to build bots for automating business use cases by integrating artificial intelligence. You’ll also understand how Python is helpful in face detection and building a scanner of your own. You will see how to effectively and easily use Python code to manage SMS and voice notifications, opening a world of possibilities using cloud telephony to solve your business needs. Moving forward, you will learn to work with APIs, Webhooks and Emails to automate Marketing and Customer Support processes. Finally, using the various Python libraries, this book will arm you with knowledge to customize data solutions and generate reports to meet your business needs.</p> <p>This book will help you up-skill and make your business processes efficient with the various Python recipes covered in this book.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Automate it!
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

About the Reviewer

Maurice HT Ling has been programming in Python since 2003. Having completed his PhD in Bioinformatics and BSc (Hons) in Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Melbourne, he is an honorary fellow in the University of Melbourne, Australia. Maurice is the chief editor of Computational and Mathematical Biology, and coeditor of the Python Papers. Recently, Maurice cofounded the first synthetic biology startup in Singapore, AdvanceSyn Pte. Ltd, as a director (technology). He is also the principal partner of Colossus Technologies LLP, Singapore. His research interests lie in life--biological life, artificial life, and artificial intelligence--using computer science and statistics as the tools to understand life and its numerous aspects. In his free time, Maurice likes to read, enjoy a cup of coffee, write his personal journal, or philosophize on the various aspects of life. His website and LinkedIn profile are http://maurice.vodien.com  and http://www.linkedin.com/in/mauriceling, respectively. Last but not least, Maurice has started and maintains a few open source projects (https://github.com/mauriceling), notably:

  • Digital Organism Simulation Environment (DOSE)

  • Collection of Python Algorithms and Data Structures (COPADS)

  • Technical (Analysis) and Applied Statistics System (TAPPS)