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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

Faster, better, and cheaper development

RPA development is a fast-paced field. A typical time scope for RPA projects may be between 6 and 12 weeks. However, certain factors, such as new requirements, design flaws, or miscommunication, will keep pushing the deadline. Speed is crucial in this era of innovation because it shapes the cost of implementing the solution as well as reliance on outside resources in its deployment process.

Reusable components are one such major technique for reducing the time taken by RPA projects. Apart from reducing costs and the efforts required in remediation due to revisions, they can additionally allow for faster sign-offs for approval. They help to protect against errors arising from typos by comparing an input list with those already coded within a framework tool. In order to efficiently meet deadlines, most companies opt for RPA bots that allow them to perform tasks at scale rather than manually pecking away at repetitive jobs, such as approvals...