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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

Finding RPA opportunities

To run an organization, you need the two most important things—people and processes. Without these, no organization can function properly. A process is made by the people, for the people, and from the people. This makes them best buddies. But sometimes, processes do get boring. No one wants to work on a boring process, but just because we think a process is unexciting does not mean we simply replace it with an exciting or fun process. We look for other ways to get the work done and not have to deal with boredom. There is a solution to this pandemic-like problem—it is called automation. Automation helps you get away from a boring process and move the people who were working on or managing that process repeatedly to more exciting work.

Now, the question is, how can we identify what is boring? The process is not going to tell us anything. It is the people who work on those processes that will. This gives us a starting point, which is to do some...