Dive into the world of automation

Spending countless hours with the change in the business process was time-consuming. The company had to hire new employees or train the existing ones to map the IT system. Before RPA (Robotic Process Automation), this manual, rule-base work was quite tedious and the output used to end up taking weeks and weeks.

With today's technology (RPA), the company can now build virtual workers who mimic like human workers and significantly take lesser time (in seconds) to complete the task.

So, lets quickly immerse ourselves into Automation.

What is Robotic Process Automation?

The definition of RPA goes like this way: The process of automating the tasks with the help of some tools to deploy the bots which will reduce the involvement of humans. Here, the three important terms namely Robotic, Process, Automation can be explained as:-

• Robotic - Entities that mimic human actions to perform the task.
• Process - Sequence of steps that leads to a meaningful activity.
• Automation - Task is done by the robots without any human intervention.

Some crucial reasons why RPA is advantageous.

1. Humans on an average work for 8 hours while robots work for 24/7
2. Saves cost for manual and repetitive tasks
3. Humans could end up making few errors, whereas robots are 100% error-free
4. Robots can handle multiple tasks simultaneously
5. Allows processes to be completed within a blink of an eye.

RPA (Robotic Process Automation) is an application of technology, directed by business logic and structured inputs, aimed at automating the business processes and so RPA takes the help of tools to make the bots. Following are some leading tools of RPA:

1. Automation Anywhere
2. UiPath
3. Blue Prism

So, in this blog, we will concentrate on Automation Anywhere.

What is Automation Anywhere?

Automation Anywhere is the world's most important digital workforce platform that provides Robotic Process Automation for every rule-based and repetitive task. AA provides services to healthcare, banking, finance, IT, logistics, analytics and networking.

Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client is the only RPA platform in the industry today that has been proven to scale rapidly and securely to 1000 bots.

Architecture Of AA

Automation Anywhere is based on the client-server architecture and it features two GUIs namely

1. Web control room: A central repository, dedicated to manage the users, processes and their      scheduling.
2. Enterprise Client: It is dedicated to users, and there are two types of enterprise clients: bot creator, bot runner.

Following are the components of Web Control Room:

• Dashboard: Gives information regarding tasks.
• Repository Manager:  Manages the automation such as scheduling, deploying or running tasks.
• Operation room:  Gives the history of the control room and tasks in progress.
• User management: Users can be activated, deactivated or even deleted, if required. 
• Audit trail: Displays recent activities of users and administrators.
• Task Management Schedules: Schedules the tasks.
• Security: Manages roles (create new roles and manage the existing ones)
• Client: Details regarding users of client component, including client type, client machine name and user name.

Enterprise client:

Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client is the package of the multiple applications which enables the creation of automated tasks with ease. With over 500+ actions in its bucket, it stays at the top to meet our needs. Following is the snapshot of the commands which it provides.

 

Types Of Automation Anywhere Bots:

There are three types of bots namely: Task Bot, Meta Bot, IQ Bot

• Task Bot: Tasks bots automate rule-based, repetitive tasks. This leads to error reduction and cost savings.
• Meta Bot: They are the blueprints of the Automation Anywhere. In case, the application updates, we need to make minimal updates to the bots.
• IQ Bot: This bot is an advanced one. It works with the unstructured data, thus improving the performance.

So, now let's deal with some examples of automation:

EXCEL AUTOMATION:

This is the automation process for transferring the contents from notepad to excel.

This is the automation process for transferring the contents from one excel spreadsheet to other.

Why Automation Anywhere?

• No programming knowledge is required.
• Eliminates the human errors.
• Its non-invasive.
• Helps one to automate data transfers.

Disadvantage

• Automation Anywhere can't be applied on handwritten data.

Lets binge ourselves completely into automation.

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