Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Use Cases:

• Organization –
• Employee On-Boarding
• Invoice Auto Scan, Data Correction & Bug-Free Processing
• Auto Emails/Reminder at Set Time
• Health Care – Appointments thru Phone Bot, Patient’s Data Entry, Claims to Process, Billing, etc.
• Retail: Receiving Orders, Sending Notifications, Shipping Products, Tracking Shipments, etc.
• Banking: Uses RPA for more efficiency in work, for accuracy in data, and for the security of data.
• Credit Card Fraud Detection System – This will auto lock your card in case your card is accesses from unknown location defined by you, unusual amount of Transaction, wrong PIN entered thrice etc.
• Loan Initiation - Scan Given Information, Input Data, Validating Key Information and Process Further
• Running Defined Business Rules Based on Input
• Insurance: Insurance companies use RPA for managing the work processes, entering customer’s data, and for applications.
• Manufacturing: For the manufacturing industry, RPA tools help in Supply Chain procedures. It helps with the billing of Materials, Administration, Customer services & support, Reporting, Data migration, etc.
• Others
• Email Processing – E.g. Send Email With Subject ‘iPhone’. RPA System will read this Subject, Search all about ‘iPhone’ and sends details you as another Email.

Advantages:

• Reduced Cost
• High Operational Efficiency
• High Speed
• Zero or Reduced Error
• High Consistency
• Reduced Risk

Types of Robotic Process Automation

1. Attended automation: These tools will require human intervention while performing automation processes.
2. Unattended automation: These tools are intelligent and have decision-making capabilities.
3. Hybrid RPA: These tools will have combined capabilities of both attended and unattended automation tools.

Top Tools Used: https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/robotic-process-automation-tools/

1. Blueprism
2. UI Path
3. Automation Anywhere
4. Pega

Few More:

1. Inflectra Rapise
2. Nice Systems
3. Kofax
4. Kryon
5. Softomotive
6. Visual Cron

Features	Blue Prism	Uipath	Automation Anywhere	Pega
Best suited for Industry type	Core RPA Capabilities	Core RPA Capabilities	Core RPA Capabilities	BPM
Is recorder available?	No.	Yes	Yes	---
Platform independence	Supports any platform.	Yes. Supports Citrix.	Yes. On-premise and in the cloud.	Desktop Servers
User-friendliness	Yes. Developers	Yes. Even for non-developers	Yes. For anyone.	Yes. It supports low-code development.
Cost	$ 15k -18k Annual	Free	Contact them for pricing details.	Start from $ 200/month
Scalability	--	Can handle any process, in any number irrespective of its complexity	Yes. Scalable.	Scalable to Enterprise level.
Architecture	Client Server Architecture	Web Based Architecture	Client Server Architecture	It runs on desktop/server. No database required.
OS Support	Windows Mac Web-based	Windows Mac Web-based	Windows Mac Web-based	Windows Linux Mac Web-based
Security	Security provided for network and software credentials	Provides security by managing credentials, providing encryption and access controls based on the role.	Provides Bank-grade security. Provides security through authentication, encryption, and credentials.

Hope this helps!!

Arun Manglick