From the course: RPA: Automation Anywhere

What can you automate?

- [Narrator] Welcome to this video on What Can You Automate! In this video we will discuss how Robotic Process Automation or RPA can automate rule-based tasks, tasks involving higher volume of execution, and repeatable tasks. So let's begin. If you examine, there might be so many tasks you do over and over such as posting on social media, email marketing, client follow ups, and booking client appointments. These repetitive tasks can be automated and save you a lot of time, energy, and money. How will you do that? Well, by using software robots or bots. Bots can automate any process from end to end, changing the way you operate. With the help of RPA, you can automate any rule-based process that is not dependent on human judgment. For instance, you can automate data retrieval processes that involve extracting data from PDFs, scanned documents, and other formats. You can also automate procure-to-pay processes that involve extracting invoice and payment data for multiple system like enterprise resource planning or ERP. Customer relationship management or CRM. Banks, vendors, and logistics companies. RPA can also be used to generate mass email processes that rely on data from multiple systems and do not require any human intelligence. Next, RPA can be used for processes involving large volume of execution. In fact, higher the volume more the reason for automation. For instance, you can automate payroll management processes that involve repetitive processing of payroll. Taking into consideration numerous regulations and company rules. In addition, RPA can automate unstructured processes too, because a bot learns on its own. Moreover, it also provides real-time operational intelligence for the entire business. RPA can also execute automated processes based in triggers. So the next time you receive an email or a certain event occurs in the system, RPA will get into action. You can use RPA to streamline numerous time consuming tasks, involving business processes, IT processes, web data extraction, data transfer, ERP, CRM, general ledgers, help desks, and claims applications. For instance, common business processes such as inventory management, customer onboarding, and extracting data from PDFs can be automated. IT processes like software installations and file and disk management can be automated too. Automation can also help in extracting data from the web for tasks like market research and performing brand actions. On applying automation, ERP events like end-of-day processing can trigger other workflows and tasks. In this way, RPA automates a variety of industrial processes. From IT to market analysis, and inventory management.

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