RPA and Technology

October 25, 2019

Robin – The Open Source RPA Language

So this has been making the news headlines in the RPA community a few months ago: https://robin-language.org/ Its a programming language purpose designed for RPA. Not much information is available online at the moment, and it doesn’t seem like many online articles have tried it out, so I’ve gone ahead and actually installed it, and used it to give you...

RPA

September 19, 2019

RPA Development Testing

Tips for Business Owners or RPA Project Leads Require Test Cases as a Deliverable Insist that whomever is helping you automate, provides a full set of test cases to you as a deliverable. A business process can change over time, or the application GUI/interfaces that you normally use can change as well. This will force rework on any automation that...

RPA

September 17, 2019

RPA vs. RDA

One of the choices that a business should make before starting their RPA journey is whether they want RPA vs. RDA. Robotic Desktop Automation (RDA) Another name for RDA is “attended automation”. This is what people call a “digital assistant”, where the bot lives on the same computer that the employee uses. As the employee uses their computer, they can...

RPA

January 26, 2019

Using AI as Decision Paths Inside your RPA Processes

Right now, I’d separate AI into two broad categories: Off the shelf (OTS), generic AI that doesn’t need any specialized knowledge to understand. The functions that this AI provides is something that a child could probably perform, such as categorizing/identifying things in images, reading (doing OCR), text sentiment analysis, etc. These types of AI services are provided by all of...

AI/RPA

January 2, 2019

Blue Prism Technical Architect Exam Notes ATA01

This exam is pretty easy if you’ve passed the Installation Engineer exam. There is around ~70% overlap in terms of the documentation that you need to read in order to prepare. It makes sense to schedule the two exams to be taken in close proximity. I found it significantly easier compared to the Installation Engineer exam, and the recommended reading...

Blue Prism/RPA

December 25, 2018

Blue Prism Installation Engineer Exam Notes AIE02

Here’s the notes that I made to prepare for this exam. Provisioning a DB Collation: Key is codepage 1252 and CI Latin1_General_CI_AS, SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS Recommended to install every single part on a different drive: OS, sql server, tempdb, data file, log file Enable Instant File Initialization. This feature typically benefits the speed at which transaction log files can be grown automatically...

Blue Prism/RPA

November 8, 2018

AI and RPA together

This a post to help sort out my thoughts on how to use AI and RPA together. Right now I see two main ways in which RPA and AI interact. Using AI based solutions as intermediate steps in an RPA process for non decision making reasons, for example using OCR to process an invoice Using AI to actually replace some...

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November 3, 2018

Getting Started with RPA

As of 2018, there are three players in the RPA software market that take up the most marketshare. In no particular order: Automation Anywhere Blue Prism UI Path All three of these products are positioned a bit differently in terms of target customer, pricing and feature set. If you are a consultant, you’d be better served knowing how to use...

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October 11, 2018

Blue Prism Developer Exam Notes AD01

Here are the notes that I created to study for the AD01 exam. No guarantees that any of these actually appear on the exam but hopefully someone will find these useful. • Detailed understanding of Blue Prism native functions and their correct application. • Date Functions: DateAdd() DateDiff() FormatDate() MakeDate() Now() Today() DateAdd(interval, number, date): interval 0 1 4 5...

Blue Prism/RPA

July 9, 2018

Starting DUP

I haven’t taken the time to follow up on new developments in weightlifting/training since starting 10+ years ago. I recently started looking into daily undulating periodization (DUP) and have decided to give it a go. Part of the beauty of the program is that you tailor it 100% to your needs, but I’ve gone on reddit and found a template...

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