What is Robotic process automation?
Robotic process automation (RPA) is the process of automating business operations with the help of robots to decrease the human interference.
Robotic are operations that imitate human actions are called Robots.
Process a set of steps that conduct meaningful activity.
Automation is a process without human intervention.
Components of Robotic process automation
Recorder: It adds an ability to automate web, desktop, and mainframe applications in a natural macro-like way without any programming, coding, or scripting.
Development Studio: The Development Studio helps to design or develop intelligent process automation workflows. It allows you to get full control over the automation.
Plugin/ Extension: Plugins handle different types of tasks, such as extracting the data from invoices, manipulating the dates of different databases, or transcribing speech, etc.
Bot Runner: Used to execute the developed software bots
Control Center: Web-based platform used to control the software bots created by the Bot Creator.
Evolution of Robotic process automation
Robotic process automation Life Cycle
Type of Robotic process automation
| Attended RPA | Unattended RPA |
| Handles Individual employee’s Task | Handles back-office process at scale |
| Partially documented process | Fully documented process |
| Less than 100% Automated | 100% Automated |
| Human Initiated | No Human Intervention |
| AKA Robot Desktop Automation | AKA Robot Process Automation |
Need of Robotic process automation
Best Practices
Test Automation Vs Robotic process automation
| Test Automation | Robotic Process Automation |
| Should be applied to a product | Can be applied to products and other business processes |
| Must be implemented across different environments (QA, Prod, UAT) | Only needs a single production environment |
| Limited to a set of users | Could be used by all individuals across the team |
Benefits of Robotic process automation
- Accuracy: Less prone to errors and Typos
- Enhance Productivity: Process are faster as compared to Manual processes
- Compliance: Follow rules to provide Audit free trials
- Consistency: Tasks are performed in same manner every time
- No coding required: No Coding required to configure Bots
- Reliability: Bot work efficiently 24*7 without interruption
- Non-Invasive Technology: No disruption to legacy system
- Save Cost: Reduce overall processing cost
Challenges in Robotic process automation
- Challenge in automating processes – end to end
- Shortage of Skilled resources
- Lack of RPA aligned team structure
- Incomplete Business continuity plans
Future of Robotic process automation
- Robotic process automation is expected to contribute to market growth of Big Data and Internet of Things
- Robotic process automation Collaborates with AI to solve complex decision-making problems
- Robotic process automation-bots reads the email body, send it to NLP and then executes the specific process extracted by NLP
- Robotic process automation believed to collaborate with other technologies like cyber surety to increase customer experience
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