These days business processes are becoming more and more complex which require higher degree of accuracy, needs to be completed in less time with minimum cost.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) uses a computer (which acts as robot) to run an application in the same way a person will work with that software. RPA automates repetitive tasks that are performed by humans manually.
RPA can help users to enhance processes, remove the repetitive work, reduce cost, increase compliance, provide better customer experience and so on.
UiPath is an RPA tool which helps in automating business processes.
Products in UiPath
UiPath Studio: It is an advanced tool that enables you to design automation processes in a visual manner, through diagrams. This is powerful and user-friendly automation canvas are available on this. UiPath Studio has a lot of features which can be integrated with many languages.
UiPath Robot: It executes the processes built in UiPath Studio, as a human would. Robots can work unattended (run without human supervision in any environment, be it virtual or not) or as assistants (a human triggers the process). It execute the process with perfect accuracy, provided we have the set of perfect rules and accurate data.
UiPath Orchestrator: It is a web application that enables you to deploy, schedule, monitor and manage Robots and processes, while business exception handling is available through centralized work queues.It acts as a central platform in managing the overall performance of the automation process.
Types of UiPath Projects
There are two types of UiPath projects: Process and Library.
Process: This is a blank project which is used to design a new automation process. We can create all types of workflows in process: flowchart, sequence, state machine and global exception handler. When a new process is created in Studio, a folder with the project name is created at the default location: C:\Users\<username>\Documents\UiPath.
Library: It creates reusable components and publish them together as a library. Libraries can be added as dependencies to automation processes. They are saved in the form of files and can be installed when they are required to handle the excess workflows using the package manager.
Types of Workflows that can be created in UiPath
Sequence: We can create linear processes that moves from one stage to another without causing any disturbance to the flow.
Flowcharts: These workflows are created when the process requires some logic or require branching.
State Machines: We use state machines when our workflow is huge and requires a large number of transactions. State Machine uses infinite number of states in its execution which are triggered by a condition or transition or task.
Global Exception Handler: It is suitable for identifying the workflow behavior when it encounters an execution error.
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