Robotic Process Automation Using Uipath Studiox: A Citizen Developer's Guide to Hyperautomation

ISBN-13: 9781484267936 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 628 str.

Adeel Javed; Anum Sundrani; Nadia Malik

Spis treści

Part I: Introduction 

Chapter 1. Robotic Process Automation Overview

• Overview
• Benefits
• Market trends
• Major vendors
• Real-life use cases
• Attended/unattended

Chapter 2. UiPath StudioX Overview

• Download
• Install
• Interface Overview

Part II: Activities – Your Building Blocks

Goal of this section is to list down each activity under these tiles in UiPath StudioX, provide a brief description of what that activity does, screenshots of different configurations, quick examples. Essentially make this as the ultimate reference material.

Chapter 3. Common Activities

Chapter 4. UI Automation

Chapter 5. Outlook Automation

Chapter 6. Word Automation

Chapter 7. Excel Automation

Chapter 8. CSV Automation

Chapter 9. File Automation

Part III: Building Prototypes

Goal of this section is to build couple of real-life prototypes that uses knowledge acquired in prior sections. We have already developed two sample target applications, one browser-based, the other windows-based.

Chapter 10. Real-life prototype 1 (Inventory Management)

• Outlook Automation
• CSV Automation
• UI Automation (Browser)
• File Automation

Chapter 11. Real-life prototype 2 (Order Management)

• UI Automation (App)
• Excel Automation
• Word Automation
• File Automation

Chapter 12. Real-life prototype 3 (Excel Management)

• Excel Automation

Part IV: Scaling Up

Goal of this section/chapter is to help people think about next steps. Most organizations have difficulty scaling up the concepts of citizen development.

Chapter 13. Scaling RPA – high-level ideas

O autorze

Adeel Javed is an intelligent automation architect, an author, and a speaker. He helps organizations automate work using low-code, business process management (BPM), robotic process automation (RPA), analytics, integrations and ML. He loves exploring new technologies and writing about them. He published his first book, "Building Arduino Projects for the Internet of Things", with Apress back in 2015. He shares his thoughts on various technology trends on his personal blog (adeeljaved.com).

Anum Sundrani is a business systems analyst and technology enthusiast who specializes in Business Process Management and Robotic Process Automation. Anum is a Certified Appian Analyst, Tableau Author, Six Sigma Green Belt and Scrum Master, alongside her several trainings in the areas of RPA development and the automation delivery lifecycle. She has an inquisitive eye for simplifying complex business processes and has focused on implementing automation solutions for business users since 2017.

Nadia Malik is a Presales Engineer with a background in software development. She has started her journey as a Software Engineer at IBM developing Cloud storage applications and then joining the UiPath rocket-ship in June of 2018 helping customers design, implement, and provide training in robotics process automation. Today she continues to evangelize RPA and mentor young women in STEM.  

Sidney Madison Prescott is a senior technology leader, keynote speaker, and robotics evangelist specializing in the creation of Robotic Process Automation Centers of Excellence for Fortune 500 companies. Sidney currently heads up the Global Intelligent Automation initiative at music streaming powerhouse Spotify. In addition to her enterprise technology expertise, Sidney is an executive board member for three global non-profit organizations, where she contributes valuable automation insights to enhance overall program objectives. To round out her career accolades, Sidney was also named a global recipient of the 2020 Top 50 Technology Visionaries award.

Blurb

Learn about Robotic Processing Automation (RPA) and how to build bots using UiPath. This book uses hands-on examples to explain the basics of UiPath and then walks you through real-world prototypes for testing your knowledge.

Organizations around the world are implementing RPA in some capacity, and there is a shortage of RPA developers in the market. Analysts predict that the RPA market size will be worth $4 Billion by 2025. With UiPath as one of the three major players in the RPA market, professionals and students can use this book to get ahead of the curve.

This book helps you kick-start your automation journey with a special focus on one of the most popular RPA tools: UiPath. Robotic Process Automation using UiPath explains in detail the various features and functionalities of the RPA platform including development, debugging, and error handling.

You will:

• Create robots from scratch, using one of the market leaders in RPA
• Develop automation apps and deploy them to all the computers in your department
• Build, test and perform enterprise automation tasks with UiPath
• Understand the key building blocks and components of UiPath 
• Apply UiPath programming techniques to deploy robot configurations
• Review email Automation
• Automate Excel and PDF interactions