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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

The previous section provided an overview of CI for IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a whole. However, in this section, we need to get more into the specifics of the various automations that can be built with Cloud Pak, namely applications, document processors, workflows (and case management), and decisions. Typically, when an organization undergoes a digital transformation, those automations are needed during different phases of the journey, and their life cycle is slightly different, both in terms of the people in charge and the frequency of updates. This is why the tools that are available in Cloud Pak for those automations are slightly different. Let’s go over them one by one.

Continuous integration for document processing

Document processing is typically one of the first steps in overall organization automation. Chapter 10, Extracting Meanings with Document Processing, described how to set up and define document processors. This definition...