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SAP Intelligent RPA for Developers

By : Vishwas Madhuvarshi, Vijaya Kumar Ganugula
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SAP Intelligent RPA for Developers

By: Vishwas Madhuvarshi, Vijaya Kumar Ganugula

Overview of this book

SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (RPA) enables businesses to automate repetitive work and integrate automation capabilities across SAP and non-SAP systems. This book provides end-to-end coverage of business process automation using SAP Intelligent RPA and shows how to build multiple SAP Intelligent RPA projects from start to finish. Some of these projects may build upon the work done in previous chapters to showcase the Agile development process in SAP Intelligent RPA. As you progress, you'll cover the SAP Intelligent RPA factory, Desktop Studio, Cloud Studio, and the Bot store. You'll also learn about the building blocks of the SAP Intelligent RPA solution and creating bots from initial application declaration to workflow design and deployment, along with making bots run in attended and unattended modes. You'll also learn about SAP Process Automation, the new SAP service that is going to replace the SAP Intelligent RPA service soon. Finally, we will discuss the migration path for your SAP Intelligent RPA projects to SAP Process Automation and showcase that the RPA development remains similar in both services. By the end of this RPA book, you’ll be able to create and manage complex bots that are capable of interacting with SAP and non-SAP systems.
Table of Contents (39 chapters)
Free Chapter
2
Part 1: Introduction to SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation
9
Part 2: Installing and Setting Up SAP Intelligent RPA
12
Part 3: Developing Bots with Desktop Studio
21
Part 4: Generating and Updating the JavaScript Code
26
Part 5: Building and Running Projects
30
Part 6: Orchestrating Workflows with Cloud Studio
34
Part 7: SAP Intelligent RPA Store, Roadmap, and SAP BTP Automation Services

A brief history of SAP Intelligent RPA

SAP acquired Contextor SAS – a Europe-based firm specializing in delivering RPA solutions – in November 2018 and renamed it SAP Intelligent RPA soon after. However, Contextor had been delivering RPA solutions in Europe since 2003 and involved in research and development specific to RPA since 2000.

Why is this important?

It is necessary to understand that SAP Intelligent RPA is based on an RPA platform with a deep foundation and solution maturity spanning nearly 2 decades. Any RPA solution can offer the expected functionalities, but solution maturity takes time, and SAP Intelligent RPA has gone through that process.

The solution that SAP launched in 2018 as SAP Intelligent RPA is now renamed SAP Intelligent RPA 1.0, and a new version, SAP Intelligent RPA 2.0, has been launched recently. SAP started offering pre-built bots for Intelligent RPA as SAP Best Practice content in 2019 and changed the delivery model through the...