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Learning Robotic Process Automation

By : Alok Mani Tripathi
Book Image

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)

Deploying and Maintaining the Bot

On completion of an automation project design, we make use of the Orchestrator to manage our bots. Before that, we publish our workflow first using the publish utility. Once we publish the project, the package is uploaded to the server. Then we use Orchestrator to manage any number of bots for any number of tasks. The Orchestrator Server also provides the facility for scheduling bots and specifying the time intervals that they work in according to the user's needs.

To understand more, let's see an overview of the topics to be covered in this chapter:

  • Publishing using publish utility
  • Overview of Orchestration Server
  • Using Orchestration Server to control bots
  • Using Orchestration Server to deploy bots
  • License management
  • Publishing and managing updates