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RPA Solution Architect's Handbook

By : Sachin Sahgal
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RPA Solution Architect's Handbook

By: Sachin Sahgal

Overview of this book

RPA solution architects play an important role in the automation journey and initiatives within the organization. However, the implementation process is quite complex and daunting at times. RPA Solution Architect’s Handbook is a playbook for solution architects looking to build well-designed and scalable RPA solutions. You’ll begin by understanding the different roles, responsibilities, and interactions between cross-functional teams. Then, you’ll learn about the pillars of a good design: stability, maintainability, scalability, and resilience, helping you develop a process design document, solution design document, SIT/UAT scripts, and wireframes. You’ll also learn how to design reusable components for faster, cheaper, and better RPA implementation, and design and develop best practices for module decoupling, handling garbage collection, and exception handling. At the end of the book, you’ll explore the concepts of privacy, security, reporting automated processes, analytics, and taking preventive action to keep the bots healthy. By the end of this book, you’ll be well equipped to undertake a complete RPA process from design to implementation efficiently.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Part 1:Role of a Solution Architect
5
Part 2:Being Techno/Functional
11
Part 3: Tool Agnostic Approach
17
Part 4:Best Practices
22
Epilogue

An SA as an influencer

What is an influencer? Why would an SA want to be an influencer? An influencer is an individual who can persuade another human being to do something. This can be very powerful. If you possess this kind of power, you can influence decisions, and that too, at your will. Well, you may think that this is too much of a sci-fi, Jedi-type mind trick. But the main focus is to build a rapport with your client so that they let you help them to make decisions. They might even lean toward you for some of those decisions, and this is called the power of influence.

Being an SA, you are still a third-party vendor resource, but as you gain trust, you get to participate in those “special meetings,” which leads to you being more valuable. If you are valuable to the client, then you definitely are the apple of your employer’s eye. I think you get the idea; now, let’s see how an SA can work toward achieving this goal. Let’s be clear –...