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Intelligent Automation with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation

You're reading from   Intelligent Automation with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation A practical guide to automating enterprise business workflows to deliver intelligent solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801814775
Length 450 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Suzette Samoojh Suzette Samoojh
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Guilhem Molines Guilhem Molines
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Stephen Kinder Stephen Kinder
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Allen Chan Allen Chan
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Business Automation and Cloud Pak Overview
2. Chapter 1: What Is Cloud Pak for Business Automation? FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: RPA, Workflow, Decisions, and Business Applications 4. Chapter 3: Process Discovery and Process Mining 5. Chapter 4: Content Management and Document Processing 6. Part 2: Use Cases and Best Practices
7. Chapter 5: Task Automation with RPA 8. Chapter 6: Chatbot with RPA 9. Chapter 7: Workflow for Process Automation 10. Chapter 8: Automating Decisions to Speed Up Your Processes 11. Chapter 9: Manage Documents with Content Management 12. Chapter 10: Extract Meanings with Document Processing 13. Chapter 11: Engaging Business Users with Business Applications 14. Chapter 12: Workforce Insights 15. Part 3: Deployment Considerations
16. Chapter 13: On-Premises and On-Cloud Deployments 17. Chapter 14: Deployment Topologies, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery 18. Chapter 15: Automating Your Operations and Other Considerations 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Reading from Microsoft Excel

We are ready to start understanding how to create a new robot to read data from an Excel spreadsheet. IBM RPA provides a rich integrated development environment (IDE) for developing and debugging robots. Let’s get going!

IBM RPA Studio

The IBM RPA IDE is used to author, develop, and debug robots. The IDE shown in the following screenshot is displaying the designer view of the robot that we’ll develop step by step over the next few subchapters. The Designer view tab shows a detailed English description of the specific logic used to implement the script, with the highlighted command being Open Excel File. To the left of the Designer tab is a context-sensitive textual editor, for those advanced programmers who are comfortable with programming languages:

Figure 5.2 – IBM RPA SaaS

Traditional file controls such as Open, New, Save, and Save As are provided to save robot scripts in progress and open files from...

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