Robotic Process Automation

Robotic Process Automation

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is the newest technological marvel used by the industries to automate different kinds of task. RPA use aritificial inteligence and machine learning capabilities to handle huge amount of data and to get it automated for various process. All RPA application have a structure or combination of a digital input of structured data and a process logic consist of roles, condition, loops etc. to act on the data received.

Why RPA

It is estimated that 60-70% of the industries are planning to invest in the deployment of RPA tools considering the way it revolutionize the different business processes, IT processes, workflow processes and many more. Implementation of RPA not only improve the financial status of each project enagagements but also reduce the risk of errors which used to occur while human interventions.

Vendors in RPA

The leading vendors in the RPA technology offers bunch of services to cover various activites and processes. The stakeholders will opt for respective vendors who perform in the specific processes such as capturing & prototyping, automation, orchestration & analytics.

As per the study and analysis these are top rated vendors in RPA

·      Blueprism

·      UiPath

·      Automation Anywhere

RPA Process Selection

There are various factors for selecting an RPA process. The business challenges can be varying from tasks involving huge number of human resources to task which involve repetitive actions. SME’s can assign the weightage to each process and can choose the apt process to get automate.

Here are some of criterias for selection of processes :

·      Rule-driven and Repetitive in nature

·      High error rates

·      Number of resources

Attended Vs UnAttended Bots

Software bots are automated programs and when it comes to RPA it operates in two different modes which are :

Attended Bots

Attended bots majorly deployed in the workflows which are evaluated as a complex and require human interventions

Unattended Bots

When it comes to simple , frequent and repetitive task which does not require much human intervention then Unattended bots are deployed.

Blue Prism

Blue Prism is on the leading vendor in RPA technology which is cost effective solution to leverage the automation of manual , rule based and repetitive back -office process. The tool provides flow chart model to use it as a plug and play mode without deep diving to any scripting challenges  

Core components of Blue Prism

Object Studio

Creates Visual Business Object( VBO) to interact with the application using different stages

Process Studio

Interacts with the VBO’s and flow of the process is defined here.

Application Modeller

Objects are tracked using application modeller and it uses different modes

Control Room

It is the command center where bots are deployed and monitored

Work Queue

A set of process which can be shared to different process

It can be configured in the workflow> workqueues under the system tab

Scheduler

It handles the execution count and the intervals at which bots should run.

Creation of Excel VBO for launching the template

·      In Object Studio we have to create a VBO – ‘AppLaunch’ which consist of set of actions such sequentially 

·      Then publish the VBO

·      Later we have to reuse the same VBO in the process studio which contains the flow

By applying this we can launch the application without any script and whenever launching the application is required and then we can reuse the VBO at any point of time.

Conclusion

The studies happening in the RPA sector reveals that Blueprism is evolving as a market leader and growing with integration of cloud services and cognitive capabilities. The organizations who are yet to adopt RPA, can procure the tool and achieve the best ROI by deploying the respective bots.