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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)

Project overview

Organizations add customers all the time, and we can do this and update their information within the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. Customer information such as key contacts, email, phone, address, website, and social media information is looked up using websites such as Hoover, D&B, and so on and kept updated. Here is a high-level workflow for the project:

In this CRM project, we will extract the list of customers to be updated from the CRM application known as Apptivo. Automation will then open up Crunchbase, a third-party site that provides company information. It will search and capture the website and social media data for each customer. This data will then be used to search and update the customer record in Apptivo. 

Now, let's look at the project's components and walk through the creation of Automation.