{"id":34396,"date":"2020-06-29T03:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cybercon1.com\/?p=34396"},"modified":"2020-06-29T03:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T07:25:00","slug":"robotic-process-automation-rpa-for-beginners-8-key-concepts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/29\/robotic-process-automation-rpa-for-beginners-8-key-concepts\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotic Process Automation (RPA) for beginners: 8 key concepts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you have mundane (or not so), repetitive tasks in your organization with steps that are definitive and rules-based?  Then you just might be a candidate for <strong>RPA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/enterprisersproject.com\/user\/stephanie-overby\">Stephanie Overby<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> &#8211; This year, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/enterprisersproject.com\/article\/2019\/5\/rpa-robotic-process-automation-how-explain\">Robotic Process Automation (<strong>RPA<\/strong>)<\/a>\u00a0market is predicted to hit $2.5 billion, having grown at a compound annual growth rate of between 70 and 80 percent over two years, according to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.everestgrp.com\/2019-10-enterprise-adoption-of-rpa-doubles-in-2018-will-reach-2-5-b-by-2020-press-release-51589.html\" target=\"_blank\">a report<\/a>\u00a0produced by the Everest Group. There could be some 2.5 million robotic desktop automation (RDA) bots running on desktops and between 700,000 and 800,000 <strong>RPA <\/strong>robots on cloud and on-premise servers, Everest\u2019s data says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.pixabay.com\/photo\/2017\/08\/30\/17\/26\/success-2697951__340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"872\" height=\"373\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>[ What&#8217;s the difference between RPA and AI? Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/enterprisersproject.com\/article\/2019\/8\/rpa-robotic-process-automation-vs-ai-explained?intcmp=70160000000h0axaaq\">Robotic Process Automation (RPA) vs. AI, explained<\/a>.&nbsp;]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although <strong>RPA <\/strong>usage is expanding across industries, geographies, and organizational sizes, many <strong>RPA<\/strong> buyers are still in the earliest stages of research or adoption. For those just starting with <strong>RPA<\/strong>, there are a number of key concepts that are helpful to understand. Let\u2019s delve into eight:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we explained in our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/enterprisersproject.com\/article\/2019\/5\/rpa-robotic-process-automation-how-explain\">RPA in plain English primer<\/a>, \u201c<strong>RPA <\/strong>automates everyday processes that once required human action \u2013 often a great deal of it performed in rote, time-consuming fashion.\u201d The software, often referred to as a bot, replicates how the human would interact with an application or system and then automates that task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAn <strong>RPA<\/strong> bot typically performs the automated tasks the same way a human would \u2013 i.e., logging into systems with an ID, entering data, gathering output or results, performing rule-based tasks, and so on,\u201d explains Siddhartha Sharad, director at consultancy\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.paceharmon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pace Harmon<\/a>.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?rct=j&amp;sa=t&amp;url=https:\/\/enterprisersproject.com\/article\/2020\/6\/rpa-robotic-process-automation-beginners&amp;ct=ga&amp;cd=CAEYACoTNTYwNjAxODgyNjgyNzE1Njc2NDIaODc5MTAwZmJiYzcxYjA2NDpjb206ZW46VVM&amp;usg=AFQjCNHSvE4I36A8mrwMG28da-TrrZ6Ppw\">Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have mundane (or not so), repetitive tasks in your organization with steps that are definitive and rules-based? Then you just might be a candidate for RPA. By\u00a0Stephanie Overby\u00a0 &#8211; This year, the\u00a0Robotic Process Automation (RPA)\u00a0market is predicted to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/29\/robotic-process-automation-rpa-for-beginners-8-key-concepts\/\"><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":[628],"tags":[629],"class_list":["post-34396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rpa","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\/34396","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=34396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}