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What you should know
Business users spend far too much time on
mundane, repetitive, error-prone tasks. Why
not save robotic tasks for robots and liberate
human brainpower?

Robotic process automation (RPA)

uses software robots that mimic UI-based
human actions to automate everyday tasks.

01.
Know what to automate
Look at tasks that are: Activities typically include:
• Mundane
Logging in and Moving files
• Repetitive
out of apps and folders
• Error-prone
• Time-consuming Cutting and Preparing and
• Standard and pasting data manipulating data
rules-based
Filling out Merging data from
And use: forms multiple sources

• Structured data
Opening email
• Legacy apps and attachments

02.
Know why you need an RPA solution

You want to automate tasks You don’t have a way You want to
with minimal changes to to easily automate and automate quickly
existing systems and apps integrate legacy apps

03.
Understand the benefits
It makes sense to let robots And free up human
perform your mundane tasks employees to do
because they: higher-value work

Reduce Costs

Work quickly and

around the clock

Work accurately

04.
Know how to plan a
successful RPA Project

Streamline Collaborate Measure Launch

Allow RPA to streamline Create a joint team of Set realistic ROI Launch a small proof
the process—look for business process and IT expectations, but choose of concept (POC)
opportunities to reduce and automation experts to a process with rapid ROI
standardize steps design the automation

05.
Choose the right solution

When considering an RPA solution, look for these capabilities:

Easy-to-use Resilient Centralized robot Scalable Enterprise-level

design studio robots orchestration robots security
Record screen Automatically detect Combine UI and API Scale up or down as Run processes with
actions and design UI changes to keep automation steps and workloads change secure robots and
automation flows in processing flowing coordinate the work of watch their actions
one interface multiple robots in real time

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