Getting Started with Robotic Process Automation

Hello there! In this book, we will be guiding you through a few real-world Robotic Process Automation (RPA) projects. Thanks for joining us. By the time you complete this book, you will be equipped with knowledge, techniques, and the mindset to work on simple to medium complexity RPA projects with UiPath and Automation Anywhere with minimum guidance. 

RPA is an exciting new technology that is being seen as the first step to using new and advancing technologies to automate enterprise processes. We will learn how RPA brings a level of advancement to automation that is much more evolved than the earlier automation process through its use of scripts, macros, and so on.

RPA is advancing rapidly and is part of a bigger movement to low code and no-code tools. Compared to traditional coding, these tools are easier to use and faster to deploy. Organizations are now using these rapid development tools with emerging technologies such as process mining, artificial intelligence (AI), and analytics to enable end-to-end process automation. We'll take an in-depth look at the future of RPA in the Appendix – Looking Forward and Next Steps.

In this first chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• A quick introduction to RPA, its benefits, and the types of RPA
• Overview of top RPA platforms – UiPath and Automation Anywhere 
• Installing and setting up UiPath and Automation Anywhere