Overview

This course introduces developers 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. You learn how to automate browser interaction, capture and process information from spreadsheets, and process email. You publish your bots to the server and learn how to manage bot execution through scheduling, launchers, API calls, and orchestration processes. You are also introduced to BPMN workflows and chatbot development.

Audience

Developers

Prerequisites

• Knowledge of data structures
• Basic knowledge of SQL syntax
• Basic knowledge of web services

Objective

• Describe the benefits of implementing robotic process automation
• Author and test bots in RPA Studio
• Implement web automation
• Use bots to read, respond to, and manage emails
• Implement error handling
• Publish scripts for production and configure target servers in RPA Portal
• Implement unattended bot execution through scheduling and orchestration workflow processes
• Set up launchers in RPA Portal to support attended bot execution
  Use the RPA Studio record and computer vision to capture interaction with stand-alone applications
• Use document scraping and OCR to extract data from PDF and image files
• Outline how to use workflows
• Explain how to develop digital assistants
• Implement machine learning to classify texts
• Incorporate business rules in scripts
• Implement version control, script modularity and reuse

Course Outline

Unit 1. Introducing IBM Robotic Process Automation 
Exercise 1. Creating a simple bot 
Unit 2. Getting started with RPA Studio 
Exercise 2. Automating file management 
Unit 3. Implementing web automation 
Exercise 3. Implementing web automation 
Unit 4. Handling errors 
Exercise 4. Handling errors 
Unit 5. Working with email 
Exercise 5. Working with email 
Unit 6. Working with published scripts 
Exercise 6. Publishing and running scripts 
Unit 7. Orchestrating bots 
Exercise 7. Orchestrating bots 
Unit 8. Creating workflows 
Unit 9. Working with RPA Studio recorder and computer vision 
Exercise 8. Working with the RPA Studio recorder and computer vision 
Unit 10. Document scraping 
Exercise 9. Creating a document scraping bot 
Unit 11. Extracting data with OCR 
Exercise 10. Automating OCR data extraction from image files 
Unit 12. Working with chatbots 
Unit 13. Machine learning and text classification 
Exercise 11. Working with text classification 
Unit 14. Working with business rules 
Exercise 12. Working with business rules 
Unit 15. Reusing and administering bots 
Exercise 13. Reusing and administering bots