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After doing a handful of robotic process automation (RPA) projects, I wanted to share some lessons that I learned with people who are passionate about the future of RPA and to those who are considering to build their very first RPA bot!
In a typical RPA project, we prioritize processes that are rule-based and repetitive in nature for an RPA robot to execute. Most of the time, data entry and validation work are on top of this RPA prioritization list.
Imagine yourself or your colleagues spending 8 hours a day looking at an Excel file, and your job is to eyeball the Excel file to find if there are any incorrect information not accepted by your system. After you finished eyeballing the Excel file, you take a break and now it’s time for you to enter the data into the system. What makes you feel terrible is that you have to enter the data row by row, and there are more than thousands of transactions staring at you from the Excel file. After typing on your keyboard for a few hours, you become exhausted and starts to make mistakes. You began to think if you are meant for this job for the rest of your life.
RPA bots can help people do repetitive and demotivating tasks faster. Most importantly, RPA bots make fewer or zero mistakes. RPA bots are also gaining popularity among the C-suites because it helps organizations to improve…
