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Learning Robotic Process Automation

By : Alok Mani Tripathi
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Learning Robotic Process Automation

By: Alok Mani Tripathi

Overview of this book

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) enables automating business processes using software robots. Software robots interpret, trigger responses, and communicate with other systems just like humans do. Robotic processes and intelligent automation tools can help businesses improve the effectiveness of services faster and at a lower cost than current methods. This book is the perfect start to your automation journey, with a special focus on one of the most popular RPA tools: UiPath. Learning Robotic Process Automation takes you on a journey from understanding the basics of RPA to advanced implementation techniques. You will become familiar with the UiPath interface and learn about its workflow. Once you are familiar with the environment, we will get hands-on with automating applications such as Excel, SAP, Windows and web applications, screen and web scraping, working with user events, and we'll cover exceptions and debugging. By the end of the book, you'll not only be able to build your first software robot, but you'll also wire it up to perform various automation tasks with the help of best practices for robot deployment.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned about the role of plugins and how they can increase the scope for automation. Over time, many new plugins will be introduced, the inclusion of those plugins and extensions will be on a similar line; however, the internal workings of those plugins may vary. You have also learned that the Terminal plugin is different from the PDF plugin. In this chapter, Java, Chrome, Firefox, and Silverlight extensions were also covered. You also learned about Mail, Web, and SAP integrations. Credential management was a nice addition to this chapter.

In the next chapter, we will focus on assistant bots and event triggers.