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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

By : Husan Mahey
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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

By: Husan Mahey

Overview of this book

With an increase in the number of organizations deploying RPA solutions, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is quickly becoming the most desired skill set for both developers starting their career and seasoned professionals. This book will show you how to use Automation Anywhere A2019, one of the leading platforms used widely for RPA. Starting with an introduction to RPA and Automation Anywhere, the book will guide you through the registration, installation, and configuration of the Bot agent and Control Room. With the help of easy-to-follow instructions, you’ll build your first bot and discover how you can automate tasks with Excel, Word, emails, XML, and PDF files. You’ll learn from practical examples based on real-world business scenarios, and gain insights into building more robust and resilient bots, executing external scripts such as VBScripts and Python, and adding error handling routines. By the end of this RPA book, you’ll have developed the skills required to install and configure an RPA platform confidently and have a solid understanding of how to build complex and robust, yet performant, bots.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Chapter 1: About Automation Anywhere

Robot Process Automation (RPA) has attracted significant investment from many corporate organizations in recent years. This has opened up many opportunities for using RPA, whether you are an experienced developer wanting to gain additional valuable skills or you're thinking about starting your career as an RPA developer. Not only will you learn what commands and functionality Automation Anywhere (AA) has to offer; you will also gain practical experience of how to use them. You will put everything you learn into practice with plenty of walk-throughs.

In this chapter, we will summarize what Robot Process Automation is. You will learn about what AA is, what it does, and get some initial insights into their RPA tool. There are a number of versions available from AA, you will gain an understanding of the differences between them. This book is based on the latest Community Edition A2019. Besides being the latest version, there are several other...