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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 create POs to procure items from suppliers. Usually, there are lots of POs generated depending on the size of the organization. 

For this project, we are assuming that we are working with a high volume of POs. The list of POs gets updates frequently in an Excel spreadsheet – say, hundreds of new purchase requests every hour. The automation reads the POs from the spreadsheet and loads them into an UiPath Orchestrator queue. 

Once transactions are available, the automation reads those transactions and writes them to the PO application. The PO application auto-generates a PO number, which is updated in the spreadsheet for the corresponding PO by the bot. 

The automation continues to pick and process the transactions from the queue until there are no further transactions to process. Here is the project workflow:

That was an overview of what the automation will do. As we mentioned in the introduction, we will be...