UiPath – Definition, Features and Uses
UiPath
UiPath is one of the Robotics
Process Automation Tool. It is a progressive and leading automation Tool that
allows you to automate the various type of processes by designing visually with
the help of drag and drop functionality of activities, and the design looks
like a Flow chart. Using UiPath, users can automate business complex processes,
Repetitive tasks, Excel Automation, Extracting hundreds of pages of data, etc.
It was founded by the Romanian entrepreneur in the year 2015 to provide
software that can eliminate the tedious time consuming back office works. It
converts boring tasks into automated ones with the help of unique tools. It
enables your processes to be more effective and reliable.
Features of UiPath
Below are the features:
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UiPath has a drag and drops
functionalities to design the process. Users can easily understand the
functionalities, as it is user-friendly.
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UiPath has the Orchestrator, which acts,
like a Centralized repository and it handles all the robots.
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It provides highly secured login features
to Robots.
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UiPath has features like debugging the
code and check how the flow is going, Handling Exceptions accordingly.
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Using UiPath, Users can access the “n”
number of emails from Outlook for business purposes, extracting the data from
PDF, Excel, and other text format files, and you can trim the data, and get the
specific data from a file easily.
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It has a special data type called
Generic Variable, which is used to store any type of data including numbers,
dates, Text, and type of data.
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It is equipped with features like
tackling debugging and exception handling mechanisms. Also, it looks after the
activities of Artificial Intelligence like handling Outlook, Excel, PDF, etc.
Products of UiPath
We have three products available on the UIPath
platform. They are as follows.
UIPath Studio: A successful automation business requires
a tool that can have the capability to model your business process despite the
complexities and the scale of activities that your company is associated
with. UIPath Studio is a powerful, user-friendly
automation canvas available on UIPath.
UIPath Studio has a wide variety of features
that can easily integrate with any language and promotes ease of use, efficiency,
and scalability. UIPath Studio enables us in designing our automation process
in a visualized way.
UIPath Robot: The Job of a UIPath Robot is to start the
executing process, once you get completed with the UIPath Studio process.
The Robot will begin executing business activities with perfect accuracy. All a
robot needs is a perfectly predefined rule and set of accurate data.
UIPath Orchestrator: It is a
server-based application that helps us in managing the automation process such
as deploy, schedule, monitor, and manage robots processes. It acts as a central
platform in managing the overall performance of the automation.
The Orchestrator runs on a server to connect all
robots to this server and passes instructions on different events such as whether
to attend, unattended, or be idle for a particular event. Browser-based
orchestration enables the management of hundreds of robots through a single
click.
Types of UIpath projects
There are two types of standalone projects that
are available in the UIPath and they are process and library. Let's discuss
each of them in detail.
Process: A process forms an association between an
environment and a package. A package is a predefined pack of services developed
using the Jacada Integration and Automation (JIA) application. Every time
a package is inserted into an environment, it automatically gets distributed to
all the robot machines that are connected to the environment. The process
page will allow you to manage previously created associations, deploy an
uploaded package to the robot environment, and keeps all your processes up to
date. It facilitates us in easily distributing the packages on the robot
machines and creates a faster process from the jobs page.
Library: A library is a package that contains various
reusable components. Libraries are saved in the form of files and can be
installed when they are required to handle the excess workflows using the
package manager. In Orchester, this is termed as a centralized place to store
all the libraries, namely the library page. From this destination, the
libraries are available to access by the people who have permission or
accessibility to it. A process library is defined as a sequence of tasks
with a well-defined business function, which makes them suitable for
reusability and sharing. On the Libraries page, you have an option to
view and delete the libraries that had been used on the UIPath Studio, and also
the files that were uploaded manually.
Types of
Supported workflows in UIPath
In UIPath, Automation is associated with
multiple aspects and it enables you to automate the rule-based process. To
achieve effective automation, each work should be assigned to a specific thing
and can be performed effectively. Each activity in UIPath has to undergo small
activities like reading a file, clicking a button, writing a log panel,
etc.
Below mentioned are the essential workflows in
UIPath.
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Sequences: It best suits the linear process of moving from
one stage to another without causing
any disturbance to the workflow.
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Flowcharts: It is designed to suit organizations
whose automation requires some logical ability. It clears all the problems in a
diversified manner through multiple branching operations.
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State
machines: It is well
designed to suit the needs of organizations that have huge workflows and a
large number of transactions. State machine uses an infinite number of states
in their execution which is triggered by a condition (transition) or
task.
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Global
exception handler: It is suitable for
identifying the workflow behavior while encountering an execution error.
Conclusion: As automation reaching every corner of today's world, it has
become essential for organizations in choosing the right tool that best suits
their organizational needs. UIPath is having a wide variety of features that
are needed for the effective implementation of automation in an organization.
RPA is being used in various areas which include remote applications, scraping
techniques, data handling techniques, etc. UIPath eliminates the difficulties
in moving the manual processes to automation with its unique features.
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