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

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801814775

Length 450 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

IBM Automation

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (5):

Suzette Samoojh

Guilhem Molines

Stephen Kinder

Allen Chan

Kevin Trinh

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

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

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