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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, this chapter focuses on providing a case study for future chapters so that we can build a complete picture of scenarios and correlate them. It also helps in understanding the concepts and the flow of an RPA project. We also saw the engagement details that act as building blocks of our thought process while designing and developing the process. This helps in understanding the objective and the goals from the client’s perspective. Engagement details help us to visualize the team structure that we can expect from the client, as well as our internal team. It helps in building a holistic view of the types of resources and what kind of help we can expect from them.

Next, we observed how opportunities are identified and the key areas that can be considered when identifying opportunities. We also looked at the different kinds of team structures and formalized a team based on the requirements given by the client for this case study.

Finally, we saw how a...