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What is RPA and How it works?

In this tutorial, I will explain What is RPA, why RPA used, and how does the Robotic Process Automation work in a real scenario with examples.

What is RPA and How it works?

“Robotic Process Automation is a simple computer coded software that automates manual activities by performing repetitive rules-based tasks.” Only substantially better: an RPA software robot never sleeps, makes zero mistakes and costs a lot less than an employee.

Using Robotic Process Automation tools, one can configure a robot to perform certain repetitive task like:

• • Capture & Manipulate data
  • Trigger certain pre-defined actions

The whole objective of using Robotic Process Automation is to reduce the time taken by the manual employee on repetitive tasks. Now, let’s understand it with a couple of simple RPA example.

Web Site Scraping: If you want to gather some information eg Share prices from stock trading sites, prices of items from an e-commerce site, it will be a good use case to implement RPA.

HR Salary Processing: Can process the salary details of each employee based on timesheet data, leave taken, CTC, etc.

RPA Use Cases in Multiple Domains

• Banking
  • Customer account management.
  • Data validation.
  • Claim processing.
  • Loan processing.

• Healthcare
  • Patient data processing.
  • Reports.
  • Medical bill processing.
  • Claim settlement.

• Hospitality
  • Guest data processing.
  • Payment processing.
  • Analysis of competitive price.

• Insurance
  • Review claim applications.
  • Claim review.
  • Claim analysis.

• Government Sector
  • Data entry work.
  • Report automation.
  • Verification of data.

• E-commerce
  • Order processing.
  • Scaping of product data.
  • Update data on the website.
  • Comparison of product pricing.

• Software
  • Functional, load and performance testing.

• Manufacturing
  • ERP automation
  • Logistics data automation
  • Data monitoring.

• HR Process
  • Automate payroll
  • Reports

• Telecom
  • Collect client phone data
  • Competitor price scrapping

RPA Tools

Find the below list of popular RPA tools:-

• UiPath

• Automation Anywhere

• Blue prism

Now let’s see a small comparison of these tools (blue prism vs path vs automation anywhere) and then in another post.

Conclusion

I hope you liked this article about What is RPA – An Overview. I would like to have feedback from my blog readers. Your valuable feedback, question, or comments about this article are always welcome.

What is RPA and How it works?
Ravi Kumar