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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

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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
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Part 2: Use Cases and Best Practices
15
Part 3: Deployment Considerations

Deployment Topologies, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery

In today’s modern and cloud-native software world, you would think that it would be easy to simply click and deploy software. Amazon Web Services (AWS) made the public cloud ubiquitous. AWS made it easy for developers and enterprises to deploy their software and services pretty much anywhere in the world. The advent of microservices is supposed to make software easier to develop, deploy, and run. Also, Kubernetes and containers made delivering code and software even easier.

The old days of worrying about architecture and non-functional requirements such as High Availability (HA), multi-tenancy, and even Disaster Recovery (DR) are things of the past. However, this is not the complete truth: the new era of cloud computing, cloud-native, and cloud-ready software brings different and new challenges to these old-age concerns.

In this chapter, we will look at the following topics in the context of Cloud Pak for...