By Kevin Casey – It’s relatively easy to get started with robotic process automation (RPA), except when it isn’t.

Various RPA software tools promise to help you launch a bot quickly, sometimes with little to no coding skill needed to get it up and running. While these platforms shoulder some of the heavy lifting when it comes to the “how” of RPA, you and your team will still need to figure out the “what, where, when, and why.”

That can feel a bit mystifying at the outset. Where do you begin? How do you identify and implement the first phases of an initiative that can become both sustainable and scalable? How do you measure success or failure? We asked several RPA leaders those very questions. Here are four tangible steps to consider when getting started with RPA. Read On: