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Robotic Process Automation Projects

By : Nandan Mullakara, Arun Kumar Asokan
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Robotic Process Automation Projects

By: Nandan Mullakara, Arun Kumar Asokan

Overview of this book

Robotic Process automation helps businesses to automate monotonous tasks that can be performed by machines. This project-based guide will help you progress through easy to more advanced RPA projects. You’ll learn the principles of RPA and how to architect solutions to meet the demands of business automation, along with exploring the most popular RPA tools - UiPath and Automation Anywhere. In the first part, you’ll learn how to use UiPath by building a simple helpdesk ticket system. You’ll then automate CRM systems by integrating Excel data with UiPath. After this, the book will guide you through building an AI-based social media moderator using Google Cloud Vision API. In the second part, you’ll learn about Automation Anywhere's latest Cloud RPA platform (A2019) by creating projects such as an automated ERP administration system, an AI bot for order and invoice processing, and an automated emergency notification system for employees. Later, you’ll get hands-on with advanced RPA tasks such as invoking APIs, before covering complex concepts such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning in automation to take your understanding of RPA to the next level. By the end of the book, you’ll have a solid foundation in RPA with experience in building real-world projects.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Purchase Order Processing with UiPath ReFramework

In this chapter, we will create our automation using the UiPath Robotic Enterprise Framework (or ReFramework for short). ReFramework is a template for building robust UiPath automations quickly. It can be used as the starting point for all your UiPath projects. 

The templates take care of most of your core needs in any automation – reading and storing data in a configuration file, robust exception handling, and event logging. We will dive into the details of the framework as we work through the project. 

In this project, we will use the UiPath Robotic Enterprise Framework (ReFramework) to process purchase orders (POs). We will read the POs from a spreadsheet, input them into a PO application, and write the generated PO number back into the spreadsheet. 

As we configure these tasks, we will cover...