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Open Source RPA Platforms

Post updated May 26th 2020 One big factor in choosing an RPA product is cost, so here is an overview of all of the Open Source RPA software that I can find on Google. Summary of Findings I’m putting the summary up top in case you don’t want to read further. As of now, I wouldn’t recommend any of the...

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AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty Study Notes

Just notes that I’m using to study for this exam. The main source is Linux Academy. Distributions PDF continuous (normal distribution) PMF (mass) discrete Poisson – series of events where the average number of successes or failure are known. Possion = discrete Binomial multiple 0/1 trials Bernoulli = special case of binomial where we have ONE trial Time Series Know...

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Designing Blue Prism Processes for Human in the Loop

Blue Prism is well known as an enterprise grade, unattended Digital Workforce Platform.  Given Blue Prism’s strength in unattended RPA, there’s a misconception that Blue Prism cannot do attended RPA as well.  In fact, Blue Prism is perfectly capable of supporting Human in the Loop automation. It just requires Solution Designers to consciously design user interaction into their Blue Prism...

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RPA Processes – Pets vs. Cattle

In DevOps, it’s common to think of your IT infrastructure as either Pets or as Cattle. RPA Process Selection and Design should be thought of in terms of Pets and Cattle as well. What are Pet Servers? Pet servers are often: Highly specialized and few in number Indispensable and cannot tolerate downtime Setup and changed manually by hand Scaled vertically...

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Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect Certification Renewal

My GCP Certification has one month left for renewal, so I’m going to put my notes here. My primary source of study is Linux Academy, where I have a yearly subscription. The Coursera Course is also free to audit. Edit: 21 February , 2020 – Passed IAM Account Types Cloud Identity Domain – group of all google accounts in an...

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Azure Functions, Serverless DB & VSCode

I’ve been doing pro-bono work with HandsOn Hong Kong (HOHK) for a while and I was asked to help them integrate their website to Social Career. Social Career is launching a new volunteer opportunity aggregator, Volunteer Movement https://volunteermovement.hk/ on Jan 31st 2020, to help promote volunteerism to the people of Hong Kong. HOHK, being one of the largest volunteering platforms...

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RPA for Startups?

I’ve now worked at Blue Prism for ~1.5 years, taking part in one of the fastest growing trends in technology and business transformation: Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Thinking back on my career for 2020, I’ve developed a clear idea of how I would have used RPA to automate operations at a startup that I co-founded in 2015, and how other...

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Effective RPA Development Team Composition

What do the most effective RPA development teams look like? As an RPA consultant, I’m exposed to tons of RPA teams and projects and the best teams do have something in common. The ones that do the best are primarily 70-80% non-technical, with the remaining members having some technical (programming or software development) background. If the development team is primarily...

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RPA Market Research Reports

[Updated Feb, 2020] If you’re wanting to read about the different RPA products and where they stand, you can take a look at various RPA market research reports. There’s four big marketing research reports that are commonly cited in the industry by RPA vendors for sales and marketing reasons: Forrester Research Everest Group Gartner Horses for Sources You’d normally have...

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Towards Intelligent Automation

Intelligent Automation is currently one the hottest topics in Robotic Process Automation’s (RPA), but there’s little to no information on how to implement it in a practical manner. If you’re a part of an RPA team, you’re likely wondering how you can get started with integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) into your RPA platform. Having worked in...

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