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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)
Employee Emergency Notifications

You may have come across many situations where your organization needs to reach out to employees urgently. 

At the time of writing, the world is going through the Covid-19 pandemic. A virus is one such scenario where an emergency notification needs to be sent to employees. Other such scenarios include hurricanes, floods, wildfires, active shooters, and more. 

With Robotic Process Automation (RPA), you can look up your HR system, identify the employees by specific criteria (for example, office, region, and so on), and send mass messages. Since RPA looks up the HR system as it sends messages, it will have up-to-date information regarding the employees that need to be notified. 

In this chapter, we will be simplifying this by looking up a list of employees and sending them a mass text (SMS) message. We will cover the following...