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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)

Downloading and installing UiPath Studio

To learn UiPath, you need the software. Fortunately, UiPath has provided multiple options to learn and use the platform. You may get a free trial for 60 days, which is the fully working Enterprise Edition, or you may opt for the Community Edition, which is free for learning purposes. Commercial use, however, is not allowed.

For commercial use, you need to buy licences from UiPath. To buy licences, please contact [email protected]. You can also contact me if you face any difficulty in obtaining commercial licences.

UiPath Community Edition is free to use in academia, nonprofits, and small businesses with an annual turnover of less than $1 million or 250 workstations. (This may change over time, so please check license agreements at the time of downloading).

The UiPath Community Edition has the following features:

  • Auto update
  • No server integration...