While RPA can facilitate integration between applications and data sets it remains limited to using methods that actual users would employ through key strokes and mouse clicks. Enabling RPA to leverage the APIs of other systems would dramatically broaden the opportunities for further (hyper-) automation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
By Dwight Davis – As we\u2019ve discussed in earlier posts, robotic process automation (RPA<\/strong>) has made significant strides in recent years. By rapidly progressing beyond its initial focus on automating simple user interface (UI) tasks, RPA<\/strong> today has \u201ccome of age\u201d to become a multifaceted and highly scalable automation platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But what about Gartner\u2019s talk of moving beyond<\/em> RPA to achieve \u201chyperautomation?\u201d In practice, it turns out, RPA<\/strong> itself is rapidly becoming the universal automation platform that organizations require. It is doing this by encompassing and integrating the two main categories of automation: UI automation and application programming interface (API) automation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It makes sense to have a common platform that spans both UI and API <\/strong>automation given that thousands of workplace processes have elements of each. And RPA<\/strong>, coming from the UI side of the automation spectrum, has a critical characteristic that positions it as the best platform for delivering \u201cuniversal\u201d automation: RPA emulates how people perform tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Emulating human activities is more challenging \u2013 and ultimately more powerful \u2013 than simply automating computer-to-computer processes by connecting different systems via the API<\/strong>s they expose. Put another way, it\u2019s relatively simple to expand a UI-focused RPA<\/strong> platform by adding API <\/strong>capabilities to it, but not so simple to move in the other direction. Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While RPA can facilitate integration between applications and data sets it remains limited to using methods that actual users would employ through key strokes and mouse clicks. Enabling RPA to leverage the APIs of other systems would dramatically broaden the …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46314,"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":[721,628],"tags":[722,629],"class_list":["post-46313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-api","category-rpa","tag-api","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\/46313","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=46313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}