Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere: Techniques to fuel business productivity and intelligent automation using RPA

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Paperback Nov 2020 554 pages 1st Edition

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Build RPA robots using the latest features of cloud-based Automation Anywhere A2019
Explore real-world scenarios with AA A2019 to understand the wide range of capabilities available for your RPA projects
Build complete software robots to automate business processes with the help of step-by-step walkthroughs

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With an increase in the number of organizations deploying RPA solutions, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is quickly becoming the most desired skill set for both developers starting their career and seasoned professionals. This book will show you how to use Automation Anywhere A2019, one of the leading platforms used widely for RPA. Starting with an introduction to RPA and Automation Anywhere, the book will guide you through the registration, installation, and configuration of the Bot agent and Control Room. With the help of easy-to-follow instructions, you’ll build your first bot and discover how you can automate tasks with Excel, Word, emails, XML, and PDF files. You’ll learn from practical examples based on real-world business scenarios, and gain insights into building more robust and resilient bots, executing external scripts such as VBScripts and Python, and adding error handling routines. By the end of this RPA book, you’ll have developed the skills required to install and configure an RPA platform confidently and have a solid understanding of how to build complex and robust, yet performant, bots.

Who is this book for?

This Automation Anywhere RPA book is for automation engineers, RPA professionals, and automation consultants who are looking to explore the capabilities of Automation Anywhere for building intelligent automation strategy for enterprises. A solid understanding of programming concepts and exposure to the Automation Anywhere platform is necessary to get started with this book.

What you will learn

Explore effective techniques for installing and configuring an Automation Anywhere A2019 platform
Build software robots to automate tasks and simplify complex business processes
Design resilient bots that are modular and reusable
Understand how to add error handling functionality and discover troubleshooting techniques
Design bots to automate tasks in Excel, Word, emails, XML, and PDF files
Implement effective automation strategies using RPA best practices

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Newmark Jan 24, 2021

This is a great book if you are getting started with Automation Anywhere.It provides a step by step instructions to create your initial RPA automation with Pdfs, emails, word documents etc. It is a manual Automation Anywhere should have come with.

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C. Staples Dec 23, 2020

Review of book "Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere", published by Packt Publishing in 2020.In general, the "Automation Anywhere" framework uses what are essentially pre-packaged code widgets which are grouped in assemblages called "bots". An author selects and positions desired widgets in a sequence, modifying portions of them as necessary, and saves them. Once saved, these bots can be rerun or modified as necessary to tweak their behavior. This book serves as an introduction to the framework and its capabilities.Chapters 1-4 deal with general background, overview, and installation.Fairly quick read, but important especially if you have no familiarity with the material. An important note: Creating these bots starts with the design process. In this tool, that translates to entering comments (defining tasks) into the bot code FIRST and then creating code to accomplish the task.In Chapter 5, the "First Bot" is built. Technically it's the second bot - the first being a Hello World type bot in Chapter 4 - but let's not quibble. Building this bot exercises some foundational functionality like file input / output, calculations, and looping. The steps provided are very exact and work perfectly, though it's important to keep an eye on details. (On at least one occasion, an edit appeared to have an unexpected side effect. This also could have been a miss on my part.)The previous bot creation process is expanded in Chapter 6, which walks the user through exercises designed to use variables in the available data types: String, Number, Boolean etc. Some of these types are roughly analogous to those in various programming languages and some are essentially specific to this framework.Chapter 7 provides a first look at interacting with a "live" application, capturing web output and simulating keystroke input. Chapters 8 and 9 introduce string manipulation, lists and more advanced program flow, while Chapter 10 returns to file processing in a more intriguing topic - XML parsing and updating.At this point, we are firmly into more advanced areas, and the subsequent chapters 11-15 deal with use cases similar to "real world" app usage and interaction: working with artifacts from Microsoft applications Word and Excel, email handling, PDF format, and rudimentary database access.The balance of the book deals with debugging and features for more complicated program flow, such as sub-tasks, usage of additional bots within a single project design, and leveraging scripts from external tools such as Python or Visual Basic.Overall, the book style is sufficient though a bit plain and formulaic - the various exercises read much like tech support work flow documentation. That makes them specific and clear, but repetitive. A good selection of the various code widgets are exercised but the reader will note that MANY more are not - there simply are too many to explore in any detail (dozens of basic types each with multiple options). Also, there is no discussion about using outputs from these bots in concert with other test or reporting frameworks, which some organizations might require.However, insofar as granting users some initial exposure and familiarity, this book accomplishes that goal successfully.*Disclaimer: Review of a complimentary copy of the book

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