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RPA (Robotic Process Automation) is a big category of tools that can be summarised as ‘automating boring stuff’. You often see it used for repetitive data entr
by sleet 6y ago
RPA (Robotic Process Automation) is a big category of tools that can be summarised as ‘automating boring stuff’. You often see it used for repetitive data entry, e.g.
1. Load excel sheet from X:\...
2. Login to Y
3. For each row navigate to ... then enter data
4. Submit, if there’s a validation error add it to and excel workbook
5. Email exception report to ...
- halo 6y agoWhat software is generally used for this? Is there anything available for the average person that doesn’t require spending a small fortune?
- janstice 6y agoUipath and automation anywhere seem to be big players with community/free starter editions. PWC (who are spearheading the RPA at $work) seem to have decreed that all their staff are going to use uipath worldwide. There are a handful of open source RPA tools, but I don’t think there’s a breakthrough project yet.
- mahalol 6y agoAzure LogicApps are good for these kind of silly integrations, if it has a connector for it then it's a piece of cake. They have a pretty limited use case though.