Automating Tasks Using IBM Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere (WB502G) Training

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