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Intelligent Automation with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation

By : Allen Chan, Kevin Trinh, Guilhem Molines, Suzette Samoojh, Stephen Kinder
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Book Image

Intelligent Automation with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation

3 (1)
By: Allen Chan, Kevin Trinh, Guilhem Molines, Suzette Samoojh, Stephen Kinder

Overview of this book

COVID-19 has made many businesses change how they work, change how they engage their customers, and even change their products. Several of these businesses have also recognized the need to make these changes within days as opposed to months or weeks. This has resulted in an unprecedented pace of digital transformation; and success, in many cases, depends on how quickly an organization can react to real-time decisions. This book begins by introducing you to IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation, providing a hands-on approach to project implementation. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll learn to take on business problems and identify the relevant technology and starting point. Next, you’ll find out how to engage both the business and IT community to better understand business problems, as well as explore practical ways to start implementing your first automation project. In addition, the book will show you how to create task automation, interactive chatbots, workflow automation, and document processing. Finally, you’ll discover deployment best practices that’ll help you support highly available and resilient solutions. By the end of this book, you’ll have a firm grasp on the types of business problems that can be solved with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Business Automation and Cloud Pak Overview
6
Part 2: Use Cases and Best Practices
15
Part 3: Deployment Considerations

Summary

As could be seen in the previous sections, IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation offers a variety of possible integration environments. It can be set up and operated in on-premises environments (both onto distributed systems and mainframes), as well as in the cloud environments of the main vendors (with the list of supported vendors increasing over time), or even as Managed Service for carefree usage.

We also covered the criteria that should be weighted when selecting a deployment option and the large choice of possibilities makes it easier for a customer to find the solution (or solutions) that matches their business needs, including hybrid solutions and gradual moves from one possibility to another.

The next chapter will get into more detail, especially for the on-premises platform, about how to actually configure the Cloud Pak, what the possible topologies are, and how they can be built with high resiliency and capability to recover in case of disaster in the data...