Overview

This self-paced course with hands-on exercises introduces solution architects to IBM Robotic Process Automation 20.12.5. You learn the skills that are needed to implement task automation by developing bots. Through hands-on exercises, you become familiar with IBM RPA environment, including RPA Studio and RPA Portal. You become comfortable with flow control, conditional logic, text processing, mathematical calculation, and file management commands.

This course is a subset of the 5-day course: Automating Tasks with IBM Robotic Process Automation 20.12.5  (Course code: WB505/ZB505). Developers who need in-depth training with Robotic Process Automation should take WB505.

Audience

This course is designed for solution architects.

Prerequisites

Objective

• Describe the benefits of implementing robotic process automation
• Author and test bots in RPA Studio
• Use commands for file management, conditional logic, flow control, and subroutines in a bot script
• Publish scripts to RPA Server
• Interact with browsers
• Automate email handling
• Describe how to implement digital assistants
• Explain how to use OCR

Exercises

• Exercise 1: Creating a simple bot
• Exercise 2: Automating file management

Course Outline

• Course introduction
• Introducing IBM Robotic Process Automation
• Exercise 1. Creating a simple bot
• Getting started with RPA Studio
• Exercise 2. Automating file management
• Key features of IBM Robotic Process Automation
• Course summary