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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

Continuous deployment

As was briefly mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, CD is the process by which the automation artifacts that have been built are transported and installed in a runtime environment, in which they can be executed and, consequently, they can perform their role.

IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation makes deployment easy, yet customizable. When Cloud Pak is installed, a default runtime environment is created and configured to be accessible and registered in the various authoring tools and embedded integration pipelines. This environment is called the default runtime, or embedded runtime.

This default environment is used for validating changes that are made to the source automation artifacts when they are developed, by offering a place for immediate execution. For example, when building an automation application, you can press the Run button to execute it right away. This is the same for a workflow, where the Playback button gives access to the same functionality...