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Robotic Process Automation Projects

By : Nandan Mullakara, Arun Kumar Asokan
Book Image

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)

Testing the automation

Now, it's time to test the Employee Notification project.

Before we run the automation, we need to ensure that we have the Excel sheet containing the list of employees in the specified location. The receiver phone numbers must be the ones on your Twilio Verified Caller IDs list, as we discussed in the Project groundwork section. 

Go ahead and run the Parent bot. If all goes well, you should receive text messages at the numbers you had on the sheet. You will also see success messages in the log file. 

If you run into any errors or the bot couldn't send text messages to any of the numbers, they will be logged in the log file. You may have to troubleshoot and debug any errors you come across.