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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)

Attended automation

These are the assistants that run on your computer and help you complete parts of the tasks that you are performing. For example, if you usually copy and paste data from one application to multiple applications, you can invoke an attended RPA to take over just these sets of activities. The control is then returned to you by RPA to carry out the next set of tasks. 

Attended automation solutions are installed on individual workstations. Sometimes, these desktops differ in terms of resolutions, display settings, and even graphics cards. This may lead to failure in terms of automation on a desktop, even though it was working well on another one.

This type of automation is popular with agents at call centers. With this, the long, repetitive processes that an agent does are replaced with single clicks! This greatly reduces the time it takes to train your representatives. Therefore, attended RPA can reduce the average handling times, improving your...