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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

Automation solutions, like any other IT system, can become quite complex over time and require the involvement of a team of professionals, composed of business-focused people and IT developers. Splitting the work and organizing their collaboration requires tooling that will support the practice. To this effect, it is important to split the work into small, manageable chunks that are built incrementally and delivered to the team frequently. In this context, CI is key to ensuring the various components contributed by team members are interacting well together, and CD installs those components into runtime environments where they can be exercised.

This chapter has shown that IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation comes pre-configured with such automatic and transparent tooling for an easy, out-of-the-box experience, but can also be customized to support more complex topologies. The versioning capability of automation services also allows for building loosely coupled yet controlled...