RPA Solution Architect's Handbook

Become a proficient RPA Solution Architect with expert advice for design considerations in your automation initiatives and drive the digital transformation by increasing efficiency and ROI for your organization Key Features * A practical guide for RPA professionals to transition their journey to becoming RPA Solution Architects * Deep dive into architectural design and analysis of enterprise-wide systems to build the best RPA experience * Lead the RPA automation journey and drive the digital transformation in your organization Book Description RPA Solution Architects play an important role in the automation journey and initiatives within the organization. They have multiple responsibilities to ensure RPA implementation and their solutions would serve the purpose of automation when deployed in the production environment. This book will be a practical guide for RPA developers and analysts to transition on their journey to becoming RPA Solution Architects. You'll begin the book by understanding the different roles, responsibilities, and interactions between cross-functional teams. We will take you through the pillars of a good design: stability, maintainability, scalability, and resilience, and help you understand how to develop a process design document, solution design document, SIT/UAT scripts, and wireframes. You'll learn how to design reusable components for faster, cheaper, and better RPA implementation, and design and develop best practices involved in module decoupling, handling garbage collection, and exception handling. We will conclude with privacy, security, reporting automated processes, analytics, and taking preventive actions to keep the bots healthy. By the end of this book, you will feel confident in practicing the skills and traits mentioned in this book to advance your career as an RPA Solution Architect. What you will learn * How to request for bot machines, VDIs, share drives, procurement timelines, cost, and support * Understand stability, maintainability, scalability, and resilience for good design * Implement scheduling, control switching, and Human in the loop (HITL) of the Bot operating model * Understand PDD, SDD, non-functional requirements, and how to write the SIT/UAT scripts * How to demo the solution, receive feedback, and triage additional requirements based on complexity, time, and cost * Best practices for decoupling, handling garbage collection, and exception handling Who This Book Is For If you're an RPA Developer, RPA Sr. Developer, or RPA Analyst, and want to become an RPA solution Architect, then this book is for you. If you are an RPA Solution Architect and have just started taking responsibility for this role, this book will help gain more hands-on knowledge to advance your understanding. Basic familiarity with RPA documentation like SDD, and PDD along with hands-on experience with either one or more RPA tools will help but is not mandatory.