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Robotic process automation(RPA) is an emerging form of business process automation technology based on the notion of software robots or artificial intelligence(AI) workers.In traditional workflow automation tools, a software developer produces a list of actions to automate a task and interface to the back-end system using internal application programming interfaces (APIs) or dedicated scripting language. In contrast, RPA systems develop the action list by watching the user perform that task in the application's graphical user interface (GUI), and then perform the automation by repeating those tasks directly in the GUI. This can lower the barrier to use of automation in products that might not otherwise feature APIs for this purpose

SAP GUI

SAPGUI is the GUI client in SAP ERP's 3-tier architecture of database, application server and client. It is software that runs on a Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh or Unix desktop, and allows a user to access SAP functionality in SAP applications such as SAP ERP and SAP Business Information Warehouse (now called SAP Business Intelligence). It is the platform used for remote access to the SAP central server in a company network.

Microsoft Excel

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VB Script

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Lifecycle of RPA

Lifecycle of RPA-:A typical life cycle of RPA has 4 phases. Analysis, Bot Development, Testing, and Support and Maintenance

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft. As a database server, it is a software product with the primary function of storing and retrieving data as requested by other software applications—which may run either on the same computer or on another computer across a network (including the Internet).

Saturday, 26 January 2019

What is RPA-Life cycle and team structure

January 26, 2019    No comments

What is RPA-Life cycle and team structure


a.)  Analysis Life cycle in RPA begins with analysis phase. Business team and RPA strategist/Architect work together to identify a business process for RPA development. Most of the development follows an agile methodology that to is customized (some modifications) agile. The core intent of this analysis is to identify processes which are feasable for automation, as awell as can save manual effort and bring RoI.
Once after finalizing the process, planning of work that includes resources and time identification is being formulated with the help of an RPA lead.
A formal approach is being documented and after approval from all stakeholders development is started.
b.)  Bot Development-: RPA developer (Team) starts working on requirement in their environment possibly a separate dev environment. Most of the development is wizard driven, with limited or no coding/scripting effort required.
However there are cases where RPA tools have limitation and coding needs to be done.
c.)  Testing -: There are two approaches on which testing is being carried out-
1- Separate testing team
2- Testing done by RPA dev team only
Some of the organisation believes that Unlike SDLC-software development life cycle in RPA testing is not that extremely critical part in most of the organization, therefore, script correctness is verified by the development team usually, with a peer review and once it is done same is ready for deployment.
While other few have a dedicated testing team which perform a dedicated QA like normal SDLC flow.
We recommend to have a dedicated testing team which perform QA of developed bot.
d.)  Deployment and Maintenance-
After the Dev and testing closure, a bot is ready for deployment and enters maintenance phase.Whenever a change comes in a process script/bot is updated or in a case, any issue is being caught in a bot same is being re-deployed by following the dev-test process again.


                           

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