Automating Tasks Using IBM Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere - ZB502G

Description

This course is intended to teach the skills that are needed to work with the IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client and Control Room to develop and manage bots. The course covers the development of both Meta bots and Task bots but focuses mostly on Task bot development.

The course uses an interactive learning environment, with hands-on exercises to reinforce concepts and check understanding. Lab exercises throughout the course provide hands-on experience with developing robotic tasks.

The course introduces robotic process automation, typical use cases, challenges, good practices and high-level architecture of the IBM Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere product. The emphasis of the course is in hands-on coding in the development environment (i.e. Workbench).

Development is performed using the most common bot commands. Bots are built to accomplish everyday business challenges including extracting data from various sources, writing data to various sources, conditional processing, and looping. The course also covers the use of various Recorders to record user interactions.

At the completion of the course, the student is encouraged to take a Badge test to earn the Automating Tasks Using IBM Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere V11 badge.

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Introducing robotic process automation and bots
Introducing IBM Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere
Exercise: Exploring the Control Room
Introducing the Enterprise Client
Exercise:Creating a basic bot
Working with variables, loops, and strings
Exercise:Writing data from a text file to an Excel spreadsheet
Working with the Smart Recorder and the Object Cloning command
Exercise:Automating data entry to a business application and a database
Working with emails, conditional logic, and triggers
Exercise:Creating a bot to sum check declines, query a database, and send an email
Working with email and PDFs
Exercise:Creating a bot to evaluate data from a PDF and send an email
Creating interactive bots
Exercise:Creating an interactive bot to check values in disparate systems
Introducing MetaBots
Exercise:Creating a login MetaBot
Working with web services
Exceptions and error handling
Exercise:Working with web services and error handling
Hardening bots against exceptions
Exercise:Hardening the Account Opening bot
Bot management and reporting
Exercise:Managing bots
Administering bots through the Control Room
Exercise:Administering bots in the Control Room
Course summary

Aim

After completing this course, you should be able to:

Describe the IBM Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere Control Room and Enterprise Client
Understand challenges and risks when implementing robotic process automation
Describe common use cases for robotic process automation
Explain robotic process automation and when to use it
Describe the main components of the product
Perform basic Bot management and administration
Understand the difference between attended and unattended bot runners and when to use each.
Understand the benefits of using Bot Insights
Understand the high-level architecture and topology
Understand workload management and when to use queues, work items, and device pools

You will also learn how to develop bots to accomplish common business scenarios including:

Capturing user interactions using appropriate Recorders
Running bots from the Workbench and the Control Room
Using and assigning user and system-defined variables
Creating a Meta bot to handle an application login
Integrating with common desktop applications
Writing data from a text file to an Excel spreadsheet
Copying spreadsheet data to a Windows application
Reading and writing from a DB2 database
Hardening bots against common exceptions
Debugging bots using the debugging feature
Applying good practices for coding bots
Handling corrupt data or an incorrect file
Extracting data from web pages
Performing basic string operations
Sending and receiving emails
Downloading email attachments
Extracting data from Adobe PDFs
Implementing conditional logic
Adding interactive components
Calling REST web services
Basic arithmetic operations
Defining bot triggers
Iterative looping
Error handling

Participant requirements

Practical knowledge of data structures
Understanding of SQL syntax
Basic understanding of web services
Experience with modern programming techniques

Participant

This course is intended for developers who use IBM Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere.