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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

Continuous integration versus continuous deployment

These two words tend to appear all over current literature about proper team practice and are often confused. This is even worse with the CI/CD moniker, which refers to ways to combine them, while they are two distinct and separate activities. Let’s try to understand this.

In any development project, whether it is based on classic pro-code, written and built by developers, or based on low-code, defined by users closer to the business, the work ends up being performed in several phases.

The first phase of the project relates to the actual development of the solution. This is done using authoring environments, such as BA Studio, and the various designers accessible from it. The users using such tools are quite diverse in profile. Some are business-focused and are usually professionals in the solution domain, contributing their expertise to the solution definition. Others are developers who support this work or IT team members...