Implementing Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with Automation Anywhere

• An understanding of general automation concepts
• A basic understanding of programming concepts

Audience

• Persons in charge of streamlining or optimizing business processes
• Managers with technical skills
• Developers and engineers

Automation Anywhere is an RPA (Robotic Process Automation) tool for creating a virtual workforce of software bots that optimizes and lowers the costs of end-to-end business processes in an enterprise.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how RPA works, as they step through the deployment of an Automation Anywhere sample system. Case studies will be examined and comparisons made between Automation Anywhere and other RPA systems to allow participants to evaluate their choice of tool relative to the organizational problem they wish to solve with RPA.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand how RPA works and where Automation Anywhere fits into the Business Process Automation big picture.
• Use Automation Anywhere to create software bots that handle tasks such as Excel computations, email responses, and database manipulations.
• Analyze existing business processes and develop an RPA plan for enhancing the efficiency of a workflow.
• Lower operating costs and reduce errors through automation.
• Diagnose and debug problems during the development and deployment of Automation Anywhere software bots.
• Communicate effectively with management and staff about the role and expectation of software bots within the organization.

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Introduction

• RPA's role in Business Process Automation

Overview of Automation Anywhere vs other RPA tools and technologies

• OpenSpan
• UIPath
• Blue Prism

Business use cases for RPA

• Case study and discussion
• How humans should interact with software bots and vice versa

Designing a Robotic Process Automation plan

• Understanding and documenting tasks and workflows
• Estimating the ROI for deploying RPA

Installing and configuring Automation Anywhere

• Setting up the database
• Configuring with Control Room

Overview of Automation Anywhere architecture and interface

• Understanding the Dashboard, Control Room, Task Editor, etc.

Creating a software bot

• A simple screen recording software bot
• A simple web recording software bot

Using the software bot to automate Excel processes

• Reading, writing, and processing tasks

Connecting to a database with the software bot

• Accessing and manipulating data

Using a software bot to automate email tasks

• Reading, writing and sending emails

Extending a software bot's capabilities

• Writing complex instructions and conditions
• Accessing a file system and logging tasks
• Image recognition

Integrating software bots with other applications and services

• Soap web services
• Rest web services

Troubleshooting

• Handling exceptions during execution

Securing Automation Anywhere

• PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)

Deploying Automation Anywhere software bots

• Limiting the scale of the initial rollout

Monitoring the performance of a "virtual workforce"

• Identifying and resolving incorrect behavior

Scaling the software bot workforce

• Software, hardware and human factors in extending the reach of the robotic workforce

Closing remarks