Definition
- All the actions that the user would perform on his computer using his keyboard and mouse are automatically reproduced by the software
- The automation of repetitive processes is performed accurately, quickly and without fatigue by the robot software
- The robot can interact with all the systems used by an employee inside and outside the company (eg ERP, Word, Excel, pdf, websites, etc.) in order to complete his work
Its main use is the automation of repetitive processes in order to free up human resources to perform other complex processes that require human intervention (judgment, reasoning, etc.)
What it is and what it is not
Programmable software
Industrial-manufacturing robot
Software that replaces repetitive processes based on strict rules
Artificial intelligence system
Set of macros running in any environment and in any application
Physical document processing machine
RPA bot tasks
- .Openning e-mails and attachments
- .Logging into applications and data extraction
- .Moving files and folders
- .Extracting and inserting data in databases
- .Filling out forms and entering data into systems
- .Scraping data from the web
- .Connecting and communicating with APIs
- .Performing calculations
- .Extracting info from digital documents
- .Making decisions based on a set of predefined rules