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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

Reliability metrics

Reliability metrics are a set of quantitative measures used to evaluate the reliability of a system. Reliability refers to the ability of a system to function without failure over a given period of time. Several reliability metrics are used in the field of engineering, and three of the most commonly used metrics are MTTF, MTBF, and MTTR.

Mean Time to Failure (MTTF)

MTTF is a measure of the average amount of time for which a system or component will operate before it fails. It is calculated by dividing the total operational time of the system or component by the number of failures. For example, if a system has been operating for 10,000 hours and has experienced 5 failures, then the MTTF would be 2,000 hours (10,000/5). This metric is used to assess the reliability of a system and to predict the expected lifespan of a component or system.

Mean Time between Failures (MTBF)

MTBF is a measure of the average amount of time between failures of a system or component...