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Democratizing RPA with Power Automate Desktop

By : Peter Krause
Book Image

Democratizing RPA with Power Automate Desktop

By: Peter Krause

Overview of this book

Whether you want to organize simple files or perform more complex consolidations between different Office programs and remote-control applications that don't allow outside access, Power Automate Desktop helps meet these challenges. This book shows you how to leverage this workflow automation platform by explaining the underlying RPA concepts in a step-by-step way. You’ll start with simple flows that can be easily recorded and further processed using the built-in recorder. Later, you’ll learn how to use the more advanced actions to automate folder and file management and enable Office programs to interact with each other. You’ll also get to grips with integrating desktop flows into other cloud environments and further enhance their value using AI. As you progress, you’ll understand how flows can run unattended and how they are managed in the Power Platform, as well as key concepts such as creating, modifying, debugging, and error-handling UI flows. Finally, the book will guide you to use Process Automation Designer (PAD) in conjunction with your frequently used desktop systems to automate routine tasks. By the end of this book, you’ll have become a Power Automate Desktop expert, automating both professional and personal tasks.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Working with SAP

SAP is both the company and the enterprise management software. At least by name, this software product should be known to everyone, since it is very widespread around the world, especially since the company represents the world’s fourth largest company in the field of software and programming. For a very long time, SAP ERP was the standard software in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) area, which, in turn, was based on SAP R/3, which was first introduced in 1992. The latest version of SAP ERP is version 6.0, which was introduced back in 2006 and has been maintained with service packs and small enhancements since then. It is now considered legacy technology and the new version is SAP S/4HANA (High-performance ANalytical Appliance).

A while ago, however, SAP announced that SAP ERP will continue to be supported until 2027 or 2030 (with extended support; see the Further reading section for details), and certainly for good reason. This migration and switch...