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Home Health Care: Untrodden path for automation
Home health care is all about providing quality care to patients at their doorsteps. Home health care is completely a unique umbrella that includes health services provided by skilled (physical therapy, nursing care, doctor visits) and unskilled (companion and personal care activities) caregivers. Clients or patients can approach or request all their requirements to client…
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Machine Learning Explained
Machine Learning Explained Hello everyone, my name is Nisarg Kadam, I am Senior Consultant at WonderBotz, UiPath MVP 2021 and a YouTuber. Whenever we read “Machine Learning” in any article or in any subject we immediately click on it out of curiosity. Curiosity of how machine learns? and what it can do when it learns?…
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Challenges faced while implementing Excel + Web Automation POC Use Case
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What not to do in RPA?
RPA has gained an edge over the other technologies in the recent past.Implementing an RPA solution may sound ideal, but always think before you ink! There are various roadblocks which have to be cleared before we decide to implement RPA. Let us walk through them now. Automating applications which are not completely perfected. The IT…
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Deciphering the Decipher – A Step towards Next Gen Document Automation
Recently, I got a chance to interact with Josh Noble (Practice Director, US Life Sciences & Defense at Blue Prism) and we had an interesting discussion around Blue Prism and how it has taken/plan to take RPA to a whole new level with addition of latest components. During the discussion , we also had a…
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Containerizing Blue Prism: The Demo Part 2
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. -John Quincy Adams This is the second Demo of the series "Containerizing Blue Prism" using docker and probably the last one before we deep dive to understand how to set up the same. If you are still with me in this…
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Containerizing Blue Prism: The Demo Part 1
“So many people live their lives not knowing the real and exact reasons why they live. They follow anything for something and they do something for anything. When you live life with a blurry vision, you live a blurry life. Vision is life, and a life without vision is a dead life” ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah…
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Containerizing Blue Prism: The Introduction
Most of our users may be aware of Containers and their benefits. Docker is one such set of the platform as a service (PaaS) products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. Containers provide a lot of benefits over conventional VMs. So, why not use containers to set up the backbone of RPA solutions. With this…
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Know All About Blue Prism Certifications – Developer Track -AD01/APD01/ASD01
Blue Prism provides numerous certification paths for all roles inside a CoE (Center of Excellence). In this post, we will concentrate on the Developer and Solution Designer track of Blue Prism Certifications. Few Generic Points You can download the FREE trail/learning edition of Blue prism from the Digital Exchange website.Blue Prism Exams can only be…
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Free Enterprise Trial – Important Points
Blueprism has recently launched its new trial and learning edition licenses to become familiar with the BluePrism product and features. Free Enterprise Trial comes with 2 Deployment Options – Cloud and On-Premises: both deployment options are free for up to 30 days and include one digital worker, up to 15 processes and come with free…
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Upgrading Blue Prism to v6.6
Upgrading anything requires a lot of planning, checkpoints and execution. If executed well, all is fine, But if for some reasons it fails, you may need to have a proper fall back plan so that the system can be restored back to its previous state. Some key Features of Blue Prism 6.6 Data Gateway enhancements…
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Interesting Reads for RPA Enthusiasts
What to expect from RPA and AI in 2018 by Pascal Bornet RPA Developer Skills by Pavel Gimelberg Challenges when applying RPA by Bernd Ruecker 6 Checks to perform before releasing Bots by Ralph Aboujaoude Diaz RPA as Gateway to Intelligent Automation by Lee Coulter Task vs Process Automation, Two forms of Software Robotics by Deepak Sharma Scaling Intelligent Automation by Tom…
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Reading a hand-written Bank Slip Without using any OCR or Cognitive Service
When I first thought about this Project, I did not even know the hurdles that is gonna come. But, eventually I found the way-around. Thanks to all those who shared their knowledge generously, so that a new can learn easily. Time to give back to the community. To cut short I put limited details. The…
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Taming Unstructured Data – The key to Revenues from Data Monetization- By Divya Rao
Author: Divya Rao, Sr Manager - Partner Success at INTELLIBOT.IO - Robotic Process Automation Organization: Intellibot.io Data is increasingly becoming an abundant commodity in today’s digital world. Organisations possessing rich amounts of data are a common sight today however it is the ability to monetize data effectively that is the key to gain a competitive advantage…
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Key Capabilities of Kofax RPA
Kofax RPA is a market-leading, AI-powered platform that automates business processes using smart software robots that run seven days a week, 24 hours a day. With Kofax RPA,enterprises, BPO providers and shared service organizations around the world can achieve exceptional benefits in operational quality, speed and cost. Kofax RPA lets you quickly build, deploy and…
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Rebranding-How Kapow became KOFAX RPA
One of the most important components of market awareness is to ensure that your product name is relevant to the market and supports and gains strength from your company’s brand. The Kofax brand is globally recognizable, has equity in the software market and a supportive customer base. When introducing our RPA solution to the market…
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Unicornization of Robotic Process Automation (RPA)- By Rohit Garg
For the last two years, I have been speaking at conferences about Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and the interest levels continue to grow - the RPA market is gaining attention from professionals and investors alike. What do we know about the evolution of RPA? Despite humble beginnings, how did RPA become such a spectacular global…
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Way Forward for RPA Players -BluePrism
All Major RPA tools vendor are currently in a race to outsmart and outweigh each other by wrestling over innovation and user experience to gain market share. In the last 2 years, the world have seen many new players emerge in market as challengers. Some have moved up the market to be leaders and some…
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RPA Use Case Ideas practice-1: Stock Picker
Project 1: Problem Statement: Need to extract the latest news and latest stock price for listed stocks. Beginner Level Steps: 1- Have an excel Sheet with the some stock names in It. 2- Go to Google finance page (https://www.google.com/finance) and search the Stock name in it. 3- Pick the Stock name by clicking on exact…
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Garbage Collection – Memory Management in Blue Prism -by Abhinav Kumar
Garbage Collection The concept of "garbage collection” is that the operating system will periodically (during “’free time”) reclaim memory which has been designated as available to be recovered – that is, memory which is no longer being used to store information required by running applications. Garbage collection is essentially the opposite of manual memory management, which…
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Interview Questions (Basics): Blue Prism : Development Best Practices
Q: What are the development best practices you should follow? A: There could be many development best practices and those can vary from organization to organization. However, here are few which are recommended by Blue Prism and can be applicable to every tool (Screenshots may vary from tool to tool ) Object Level: There must…
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Dynamic Input Dialogue in Blue Prism- Attended Automation-3 (VBO Download Link Below)
In our previous topics, we learnt about how to emulate the message box property using Blue prism which would enable to send popup messages to the user on run time resources . It pauses the execution until someone manually clicks on the OK Button. You can read the post here. http://rpatools.com/message-box-and-request-credentials-using-blue-prism/ We also saw how…
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Generating Intelligent Automation value through Innovation- By Deepak Sharma
Summary This article presents an Intelligent automation framework that defines four automation categories based on Organizational Innovativeness derived as a function of the core automation focus of an organization i.e. task, process, knowledge, or customer. The automation categories are discussed for their characteristics, value proposition and implementation examples with some insightful recommendations suggested towards the end. Special thanks…
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Input Dialogue(Run time User Input) in Blue Prism- Attended Automation-2
In our previous topic, we learnt about how to emulate the message box property using Blue prism which would enable to send popup messages to the user on run time resources . It pauses the execution until someone manually clicks on the OK Button. You can read the post here. http://rpatools.com/message-box-and-request-credentials-using-blue-prism/ In this…
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Message Box and Request Credentials Using Blue Prism (Attended Automation)
Attended Automation using Blue Prism: We all are aware that Blue prism is designed to run only for unattended automation. However, for some reason having attended automation using blue prism is required in some cases. Using the inbuilt features, you can have provide startup parameters during the start of a process only.However, if you want…
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Dynamic Process Execution – Blue Prism
Process Execution Methods: We know any Blue Prism process can be triggered in a variety of ways including: 1- Scheduler : This is the most common way of triggering a process in any automation tool. It uses the scheduler to create a schedule (somewhat similar to crontab or any other scheduler) to trigger a process…
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How to Correct Overlapping display issue in Blue Prism
We have observed in some Blue Prism installations on some system, the text are overlapped or the text descriptions for some features are partially or full hidden from view. In these circumstances the functionality is impaired and it causes a lot of irritation and discomfort in development. This is particularly noticeable in the below scenarios:…
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Don’t forget RPA NFR’s ( Technical Requirements) – By Sandeep Dhanda
Requirement elicitation plays an important role for any project. Functional requirement is important but technical requirement / NFR’s are also of equal importance. You can consider functional requirement sits in the middle and technical requirement defines the breath and depth of the solution. In any RPA solutioning along with business process , process potential…
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Automation Anywhere- Best Coding Practices – By Sandeep Dhanda
Some of identified best coding practices in automation anywhere. Variables: Use of meaning full and proper naming convention for task and variables.No hard coded data within Variables. Task: Follow maximum 300-500 lines of code in one task. Comments: Use meaning full comment for better maintainability. Security: Uses of credential vault and encryption of sensitive data. Exception Handling: Use of error…
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How to calculate effort estimation in RPA project? – By Sandeep Dhanda
It is very essential to calculate RPA estimation for: Doing cost benefit analysis to determine go ahead with automation. Determining project cost/schedule and track progress based upon it Discovery Phase: During the phase only high level requirements are known and it is very hard to provide accurate estimation. It can based upon: Expert Judgement or similar…
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How to decide RPA Project worth to Invest(Cost Benefit Analysis)? – By Sandeep Dhanda
In RPA project discovery phase, It is essential to calculate cost benefit analysis and payback period to determine it is worth to invest in project. Cost contains: Payroll/Enablement cost for development of RPA Project. Infrastructure Cost(VDI/Desktop for hosting solution and RPA Tool license cost) Operation Support Cost (Once project is live and supported by production…
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Automation Anywhere Enterprise 11.X top 10 enhance features -By Sandeep Dhanda
Automation Anywhere Enterprise 11 also includes new features and enhancements: Workload Management – To support industrial-scale automation, Enterprise 11 includes Workload Management (WLM). Much more than a queue management system, WLM has been designed from the ground up to meet enterprise-class service level agreement (SLA) demands by allowing enterprises to manually prioritize high-value tasks and…
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10 Key Challenges in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) – By Sandeep Dhanda
Fear of job loss: Some business people are not supportive of automation and think it could eat their job. It is challenge to get their support during implementation and UAT of process automation. Skilled resource availability: Due to RPA various tool availability in market, quick upgrades in tools and tool preference in organization to organization are…
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Technical Queries:Blue Prism (BP): How to Open individual excel files from folder?
Recently I saw a question online from a person whose question stated: "I have a folder which contains individual excel files. I need to open one by one excel file and read the data from them to work queue. Please suggest me solution." I know there can be many solutions to this question, I am…
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Organization Insights: Automation Anywhere
Automation Anywhere was originally founded as Tethys Solutions, LLC in San Jose, California by Ankur Kothari, Mihir Shukla, Neeti Mehta, and Rushabh Parmani in 2003. The company re-branded itself as Automation Anywhere, Inc. in 2010. Currently valued at ~US $ 2.6 Billion with global employee strength of ~1200. It has received a total funding of - US $550 Million…
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Introducing Blue Prism-Robotic Process Automation
Post by : Akshay Thakur Even in our digital era, many business processes are still carried out by people. Yet these processes commonly rely on one or more applications, with human beings providing the driving intelligence. For example, think about a back office that handles customer orders. Each order might require getting a customer’s name,…
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Robotic Process Automation (RPA)-An era Of Operational Excellence
Post by : Akshay Thakur Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is the technology tool aimed at automating the mundane high-volume, repetitive, and rules-based business activities for both front office and back office that required a great deal of time and manual effort. Through the use of RPA tools, a business can leverage the software “robot” or…
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RPA Implementation and Complexities
Post by : Akshay Thakur RPA Implementation and Complexities Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is an automation of back and front office processes that are largely rules based, structured, and repetitive. The automation takes place when software “robots” (not physical robots) carry out processes or tasks normally completed by humans. The software vendors of RPA have…
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The BusOps-IT RPA Methodology
Post by : Deepak Sharma In this part 1 of 2-part article, I’m introducing a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) implementation methodology that builds upon the Design-centric RPA approach white paper I published last year. The essence of this methodology is “Collaboration between business and IT to deliver RPA implementation” and hence the name “The BusOps-IT RPA Methodology”.…
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A Technology Innovation Map for RPA
Post by : Deepak Sharma What is RPA? From the RPA Primer published by "Institute of Robotic Process Automation" (IRPA) in 2015– “Robotic process automation (RPA) is the application of technology that allows employees in a company to configure computer software or a “robot” to capture and interpret existing applications for processing a transaction,…
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RPA vs Test Automation Tools
Post by : Deepak Sharma Christian raised an interesting discussion topic on RPA group forum - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8446902/8446902-6227072135182065668 Chrisitan wrote - Yesterday we had an interesting discussion either a Test Automation Framework is similar to a RPA Software or not. Some of the Test Automation Frameworks can also create bots to run the tests. What do you…
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RPA Solution Architecture
Post by : Deepak Sharma I recently wrote a primer about RPA discussing what RPA is, where you can apply it and how you can go about implementing RPA [1]. As I continue to develop my understanding on RPA tools and their solution offering, for individuals like me learning about RPA and for business associates…
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RPA – Your Digital Assitant is here!
Post by : Deepak Sharma I’ve been working in Software Test Automation for more than a decade now. I’ve spent majority of my automation consultancy time working on large enterprise softwares such as SAP, Siebel, PLM, etc. developing and implementing test automation solutions for complex business processes. I recently came to know about the Robotic…
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Recorder based RPA- Hype vs Reality
Post by : Deepak Sharma The (Empty) Promise- Recorder based RPA tool vendors are selling big dreams to their customers. The promise that subject matter experts in business operations working in front and back offices across different departments such as finance, HR, supply chain, etc. can record software robots within a matters of hours sitting…
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