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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

By : Husan Mahey
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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

By: Husan Mahey

Overview of this book

With an increase in the number of organizations deploying RPA solutions, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is quickly becoming the most desired skill set for both developers starting their career and seasoned professionals. This book will show you how to use Automation Anywhere A2019, one of the leading platforms used widely for RPA. Starting with an introduction to RPA and Automation Anywhere, the book will guide you through the registration, installation, and configuration of the Bot agent and Control Room. With the help of easy-to-follow instructions, you’ll build your first bot and discover how you can automate tasks with Excel, Word, emails, XML, and PDF files. You’ll learn from practical examples based on real-world business scenarios, and gain insights into building more robust and resilient bots, executing external scripts such as VBScripts and Python, and adding error handling routines. By the end of this RPA book, you’ll have developed the skills required to install and configure an RPA platform confidently and have a solid understanding of how to build complex and robust, yet performant, bots.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Summary

You should now be comfortable with Automation Anywhere's user interface, having a clearer understanding of all the configurations needed to design and support your bot. You will understand why features such as security, reusability, and a simple interface make Automation Anywhere an award-winning RPA tool and one of the industry leaders. You should now have an overview of the Control Room interface and its features.

In the next chapter, we will look at the development interface. You will learn how to navigate the hundreds of actions available, as well as the different methods available to build a bot. Automation Anywhere provides a graphical interface to map out a process as well as a drag-and-drop-based option. These are the three methods for building and designing a bot: Flow, List, and Dual. You will also understand bot packages in more detail, as well as dependencies and properties.

All this will set you up to start building your first working bot using Automation...