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Process Automation Overview

The Process Automation module is the heart of RPA Manager. After a citizen technologist evaluates processes and approves them for automation in the Process Evaluation module, you, as a project manager, create a project here for each suitable process by starting the automation from the My RPA module. A project defines the framework conditions for the execution of a process and is managed by a team.

Processes go through several phases in sequence.

  1. In the design phase, a citizen designer creates a model of the process using BPMN.

  2. During the build phase, in RPA Builder, a RPA developer fills the model with concrete instructions for the bot.

  3. In the test phase, a quality assurance team checks if the automated process delivers the required results.

  4. Then you transfer the process to the production phase, where it is carried out fully automatically.

The process team can revise the process continuously.

Getting Started

  1. List all applications required for the automation of a process in the Process Applications view of the Process Automation module.

  2. Start the automation of a process in the My Backlog view of the My RPA module.

  3. Create a project containing the settings and data of the process to be automated in the Process Management view of the Process Automation module.

  4. In the design phase, record a process with RPA Recorder or model the process using BPMN.

  5. In the build phase, use RPA Builder to edit or create a machine-readable program from the model.

  6. In the test phase, run an automated process in a test environment.

  7. In the production phase, deploy the automated process to a bot. Choose one or both of the following options:

    • Create a run configuration to execute the automated process by scheduling it in RPA Manager.

    • Create and publish an invocable configuration to Anypoint Exchange or Salesforce and use it with MuleSoft Composer or Salesforce Flow.

Definitions

BPMN

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a standard specification for diagrams to depict business processes. Such diagrams can be created directly by the process owner and easily translated into a machine-executable program.