POC

You may wonder why we are covering a POC at this stage and whether this should be covered by the SA during the solution stage. Well, you are right – this POC is not for the components, new technology, or any open source library but more for the application and other components that are involved in the process. Doing a quick POC will give you the confidence that there will be no roadblocks or impediments as the development advances. This needs to be taken care of at this stage to avoid any issues later, as then you will have neither the liberty to change your course of action nor the time to go back to the whiteboard to redesign the process.

Let’s understand this using a scenario.

You are working on an RPA project that involves three applications – one is a home-grown application developed on dotnet, the second application is a third-party application that is accessible only through a VPN, and the third application is based on a desktop thick client.

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