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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

Summary

To summarize, an SA is one of the most important roles in an RPA project. We saw how an SA can be helpful for not only bringing integrity to the team but also bridging technical and functional gaps in the team. Other than their primary role and responsibility, they have to take on extra responsibility to make sure that the end goal is achieved. Only results matter—keeping that attitude, the SA helps the developer overcome technical impediments and at the same time helps the team as a guardian angel, influencer, and enforcer of best practices. They also keep the team moving forward in the right direction by guiding them and keeping them focused. They are the owners of the solution so as to make sure that it gets implemented to its utmost extent. They help in filling other people’s shoes, such as being a consultant, developer, and delivery facilitator. This gives us a clear picture of what it takes to be an SA. An SA has to possess many skills so that they can be used as a trump card whenever needed.

Having an SA on the team gives peace of mind and helps make sure that the project goes smoothly. This is why SA selection should be exhaustive.

In the next chapter, we will talk about a case study of a banking organization, which will be our reference point and help build a story for future scenarios. This will also help to visualize an end-to-end RPA engagement unclear for understanding the length and breadth of an RPA project.