Recently robotics process automation has been growing increasingly popular. The arrival of robotic process tools, such as Blue Prism, has opened up a world of opportunities. Processes that could not be automated previously may now be automated. These may include processes that involve legacy applications that no one dares to upgrade for fear that something may break. Or perhaps the application came from a shrink-wrapped box and it does not provide any means for developers to extend and integrate.
In the past, the only way to get the job done was for a human to perform mundane data entry, point-and-click operations. Now platforms like Blue Prism are able to simulate exactly what humans do without the need for costly system enhancements and change requests. You just need to train the robot to mimic what the human does and the process gets automated!
The best part is, you don't have to be overly technical to build a process from the ground up. The book was written to build a single process up from scratch. While building the process, the reader is taken step by step through all the basic functions of Blue Prism, from creating a process, to building up an object and using frequently used applications such as Excel and Outlook.