BPM, ODM & RPA Integration Patterns
What is RPA?
What Can RPA Do?
What kind of work can be automated?
Benefits of RPA
What is RPA?
- Robotic process automation is an emerging form of business process automation technology based on the notion of software robots or artificial intelligence workers.
What Can RPA Do?
- Since RPA is software-based, it can be used to perform various tasks like maintenance of records, queries, calculations, and transactions. There are wide range of applications that can be operated by RPA. For example, Citrix, .NET, HTML, and Java are all technologies commonly supported by RPA.
- Compatible systems include Mainframe Terminals, SAP, Oracle and many more.
What kind of work can be automated?
- Any processes that are highly repetitive, Rule based and use structured data can be automated.
Benefits of RPA
Better Quality Services: Better accuracy and better customer service.
Increased Speed: Processes can be completed at unprecedented speeds.
Increased Agility: Reduced overhead and more flexible business resources.
Reduced Costs: Manual or repetitive tasks are carried out by RPA software with reduced cost
Employee Experience: Increased staff productivity and reduced attrition.
Compliance: Business processes can be set to operate in contrast with the regulations and standards of the organization.
IBM RPA with Automation Anywhere V10
Swivel Chair –Human Creates Sales Order using SAP
A swivel-chair task automation -no programming in BPM!
Although SAP has API this is a tactical option available to automate the task today by a bot, with a strategic option to replace this task with an API
Bot completes a task using the BPM UI
Swivel Chair –Bot Creates Sales Order using SAP
IBM RPA with Datacap
- Intelligent ingestion process
- Catch possible errors before they get to the bots
- Overcomes obstacles raised when unstructured data is sequestered in complex documents
- Reduce business and system exceptions
Documents come from many sources
Example –Automate Sales Order
