FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions

Below are some of the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) with respect to RPA.

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Robotic Process Automation is a digital workforce of software robots that enables you to emulate and integrate the actions of human behavior within digital systems by developing your own software bots to conduct a business process. To know more, please read - What is Robotic Process Automation?
For learning RPA, you should start with:
  1. Learn RPA tools like Automation Anywhere, UiPath, Blue Prism, etc.
  2. Have a good understanding of problem solving skills, SOLID principles, programming, scripting.
Now along with these above-mentioned skills, there are some skills that may help.
  • Knowledge of Excel and Macros.
  • Knowledge of writing basic python scripts.
  • Understanding how to use components like Auto ML, NLP, and AI.
  • Knowledge of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engines like ABBYY, Tesseract.
There is nothing such as the latest tool in RPA. Every RPA vendor tries to keep its tools aligned with the latest technology. Here are theTop 5 RPA tools in the market:
  1. Automation Anywhere
  2. UiPath
  3. Blue Prism
  4. Work Fusion
  5. Pega
For more details, you may refer to this post – Top 5 RPA tools of 2020.
RPA is a journey not just a project. Good preparation is always key to a successful journey. RPA Journey requires a great Business & IT collaboration must be in sync with the organization's Strategic Positioning, must have a joint plan of action to win cultural acceptance.   Read More on How to get started?
The scope for RPA is bright. Automation will be the primary driver as India’s economy doubles to $5 trillion by 2025, according to a new report from Ernst and Young India commissioned by Automation Anywhere. The future is already automating. You can see how the market is changing to Automation. RPA projects also have good scope too. You can start learning about RPA and grab the next available opportunity without giving it a second thought.
There are lots of benefits in using RPA, we have listed some of them:
  • RPA bots are Scalable and they Integrate across domains and platforms.
  • They reduce human errors, are compliant and consistent.
  • RPA can reduce operational costs by automating repetitive high-volume tasks.
There are around 30+ tools under RPA, from which Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, UiPath, Work Fusion, and Pega are most trending in the market. Coming to the Certification, getting a certification is not so critical, whereas completing your training from the Best provider would be the crucial task. So, the best RPA certification would be the one with respect to the RPA tool you are working on.
Definitely RPA has a lot of advantages but comes with few limitations as well.
  • RPA can only read electronic data i.e only digital documents.
  • RPA is not a Business Process Management solution and does not bring an end-to-end process view.

Career Opportunities in the field of RPA are:

  • RPA Professional
  • Bot Developer
  • RPA Software Engineer
  • Business Analyst
  • Control Room Administrator
  • Solution Architect
  • RPA Consultant
  • RPA Program Manager
  • Process Automation Specialist
Mainly, there are 3 types of automation in RPA:
  1. Attended Automation
  2. Unattended Automation
  3. Hybrid Automation
To know more about there in detail - Refer to this article.

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