How to Get Started with Automation and UiPath

Everything in your enterprise that is currently manual, repetitive, and boring will be replaced by software robots. The biggest opportunity this decade is to free up your staff from these highly tedious, error-prone, and repetitive tasks to do something that will add value to your organization. The potential for automation technologies only continues to increase every day and even the tasks that were thought to be too complex to automate can now be automated with only a modest amount of effort. You can reap the benefits of automation within weeks or months and continue to spearhead it in many areas to keep the ROI growing.

Your automation journey usually starts with identifying one or more of such processes. Whether it happens organically, or you go looking for one, here are some of the things to keep in mind at the outset.

If you are still looking for some ideas, here are some common processes with high ROI for automation.

Once you identify one or more processes to automate, you will need to decide on your technology strategy and approach. This is where the fun begins. There are several approaches, depending on your situation, that may work. The table outlines typical choices and their tradeoffs.

Keeping a long view of the automation, we recommend choosing a platform approach and therefore a technology like UiPath as the best recipe for success. The platform approach enables quick and easy implementation of initial processes while giving you the ability to scale automation across the enterprise easily and efficiently in the medium to long term. It addresses larger issues around standardization, governance, compliance, and auditability up-front, while allowing you to quickly realize ROI from your initial processes. Automation of these processes drives visibility, experience, and insights that are critical build to traction for a larger automation program.

With UiPath, you can kickstart your automation journey very easily with a small upfront investment. You can choose a relatively simple and high-impact process to address business challenges immediately, or you can choose a more complex process, to prove out the technology. Either way, the technology is several layers deep to help you solve your automation challenges small and large.

There are a few different software robots you can implement they are: attended robots, unattended robots, or AI bots. With attended robots, you can help users automate their routine tasks like data entry, collating information from various applications (web or desktop). With unattended robots, you can automate tasks and processes 24/7 so enterprise is always productive. These unattended bots can work on many different things and continue to churn out tedious tasks while your staff is free to do things that need the creativity and intelligence of humans. Artificial Intelligence Robots (AI Bots) can enhance the spectrum of tasks that can be automated quite significantly. These bots can digitize and understand unstructured data, make good decisions, and know when to involve humans in the loop for error handling and complex decisions that are beyond bots’ abilities.

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