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SAP Intelligent RPA for Developers

By : Vishwas Madhuvarshi, Vijaya Kumar Ganugula
Book Image

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

Chapter 27: SAP Intelligent RPA Store

SAP acquired Contextor in November 2018 and rebranded it to SAP Intelligent RPA soon after. At the time of acquisition, SAP also planned to automate half of the SAP ERP business processes. You can read more about this announcement here, https://news.sap.com/2018/11/sap-acquires-contextor-robotic-process-automation/.

To achieve this lofty goal, SAP took two parallel paths. One was educating SAP partners on using SAP Intelligent RPA effectively to automate business processes. The other was rolling out pre-built SAP Intelligent RPA packages to its partners at no charge.

Initially, SAP delivered these packages through the best practices route and, as shown in the following screenshot, you can still find Intelligent RPA packages listed under SAP Best Practices Explorer at https://rapid.sap.com/bp/.

Figure 27.1 – Intelligent RPA packages in SAP Best Practices Explorer

However, as the number of packages increased...