What is Robotic Process Automation(RPA)?
- RPA is a business automation technology that helps in automating the humdrum repetitive tasks (data entry, banking) without human intervention.
- RPA was coined with the vision of empowering business users to create software bots (robots) that could interact with the system just like humans.
- It evolved from the three key predecessors: Screen scraping, workflow automation, and artificial intelligence.
- RPA bots are powerful to mimic several human actions such as log into applications, copy and paste data, move files and folders, fill in forms, scrape browsers and extract structured & semi-structured data from documents.
- It is highly dependent on Screen scraping & Workflow automation that manages workflows using drag & drop features in a visual way, which is entirely independent of coding knowledge.
- RPA is basically a combination of Artificial Intelligence and automation.
- RPA is platform independent.