{"id":46075,"date":"2021-04-06T02:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T06:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cybercon1.com\/?p=46075"},"modified":"2021-04-06T02:43:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T06:43:00","slug":"5-common-ways-companies-use-rpa-to-enhance-document-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/06\/5-common-ways-companies-use-rpa-to-enhance-document-processing\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Common Ways Companies Use RPA to Enhance Document Processing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmswire.com\/author\/joe-labbe\/\">Joe Labbe<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; With all the hype around <strong>robotic process automation<\/strong> (<strong>RPA<\/strong>), it can be helpful to remember that the vast majority of the data running through <strong>RPA<\/strong> automations originates or terminates with a document. In fact, I\u2019d estimate that about 80% of <strong>RPA<\/strong> automations fall into this category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.pixabay.com\/photo\/2016\/08\/23\/12\/37\/files-1614223__340.jpg?resize=653%2C521&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"653\" height=\"521\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because so many <strong>RPA<\/strong> automations involve documents, we\u2019re able to identify common document processing patterns and use cases. Here are the five most common ways companies are using <strong>RPA <\/strong>to enhance document processing:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Transactional data entry is the mother of all unattended bot automations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unattended bots do not run on a user\u2019s personal workstation. Rather, they run on one or more physical or virtual machines tasked with performing more batch-oriented and longer running transactions. Unattended bots are custom-made to process documents that flow into the enterprise on their own timetable, and where timely and hyper-accurate data entry into downstream line of business systems is critical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are talking about an organization\u2019s most important operational documents such as invoices, insurance claims, electronic medical records, shipping documents, etc. This is the data lifeblood that courses through the veins of every organization. No matter the document, the processing pattern is often the same:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Documents are acquired and ingested.<\/li><li>OCR and machine learning auto-categorize documents and extract transactional data.<\/li><li>Extracted data is validated against internal data sources.<\/li><li>Validated data is automatically entered into downstream line of business systems via the application\u2019s user interface (just like the user does it).<\/li><li>Real-time prompts are generated and presented to skilled knowledge workers to handle exceptions.<\/li><li>Transactions are recorded and logged for audit and compliance purposes.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cmswire.com\/information-management\/5-common-ways-companies-use-rpa-to-enhance-document-processing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Joe Labbe\u00a0&#8211; With all the hype around robotic process automation (RPA), it can be helpful to remember that the vast majority of the data running through RPA automations originates or terminates with a document. In fact, I\u2019d estimate that about <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/06\/5-common-ways-companies-use-rpa-to-enhance-document-processing\/\"><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":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[674,628],"tags":[675,629],"class_list":["post-46075","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":[{"id":46049,"url":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/24\/5-priorities-for-the-federal-rpa-community-of-practice-in-2021\/","url_meta":{"origin":46075,"position":0},"title":"5 priorities for the federal RPA Community of Practice in 2021","author":"Rick Backus","date":"March 24, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Agencies\u00a0plan to\u00a0generate demand and optimize processes for automation in 2021, among\u00a0three other priorities announced by\u00a0the federal Robotic Process Automation Community of Practice\u2019s executive sponsor on Tuesday. 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