{"id":31932,"date":"2019-10-14T04:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T08:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cybercon1.com\/?p=31932"},"modified":"2019-10-14T04:28:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T08:28:00","slug":"rpa-basics-what-it-is-benefits-downsides-use-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/14\/rpa-basics-what-it-is-benefits-downsides-use-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"RPA basics: What it is, benefits, downsides, use cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/contributor\/Diann-Daniel\">Diann Daniel &#8211; <\/a> BOSTON &#8212; <strong>Robotic process automation<\/strong> is among the most talked-about technologies today. Not understanding what it means in 2019 may feel akin to not knowing what&nbsp;<em>Games of Thrones<\/em>&nbsp;is about or who Taylor Swift is. In truth, you&#8217;re not alone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cyberconservices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/robot-4363354__340.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31933\" width=\"176\" height=\"90\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Here at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/blog\/CW-Developer-Network\/IFS-World-2019-keynote-notes-quotes-anecdotes\">IFS World Conference<\/a>, Bob De Caux, VP of AI and RPA at IFS, clears up the confusion around robotic process automation and explains RPA basics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How would you define robotic process automation?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bob De Caux: <strong>Robotic process automation<\/strong> is [metaphorically] a software robot sitting in front of your computer, seeing everything a human would and interacting with the screen in the way that a human would. It&#8217;s not intelligent &#8212; you tell it what to do, and it performs those [rules-based, repetitive] tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What are some examples of robotic process automation?<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?rct=j&amp;sa=t&amp;url=https:\/\/searcherp.techtarget.com\/feature\/RPA-basics-What-it-is-benefits-downsides-use-cases&amp;ct=ga&amp;cd=CAEYACoUMTcxODIzNDM5MzcxNTM5OTU4MDMyGjg3OTEwMGZiYmM3MWIwNjQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&amp;usg=AFQjCNFsssXNEEHHYzXe3ZY7boN6dINdzQ\">Read On: <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Diann Daniel &#8211; BOSTON &#8212; Robotic process automation is among the most talked-about technologies today. Not understanding what it means in 2019 may feel akin to not knowing what&nbsp;Games of Thrones&nbsp;is about or who Taylor Swift is. In truth, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/14\/rpa-basics-what-it-is-benefits-downsides-use-cases\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[674,628],"tags":[675,629],"class_list":["post-31932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotic-process-automation-processs-automation","category-rpa","tag-robotic-process-automation","tag-rpa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}