Creating first bot using Automation Anywhere

RPA(Robotic Process Automation):

RPA is nothing but the process of automating business operations with the help of robots to reduce human intervention.

Now let us understand each letter in RPA:

R — Robotic : The entities that mimic human actions are called as robots.

P — Process : Process is a sequence of steps that lead to a meaningful activity.

A — Automation : is any process that is done by a robot without human intervention.

Final definition of RPA: Mimicking human actions to perform a sequence of steps leading to a meaningful activity without any human intervention.

In today’s market there are some RPA tools such as Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, UIPAth, WorkFusion, Pega Systems etc. among these, there are 3 leading tools (trio) such as UIPath, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere.

Creating the first bot using Automation Anywhere:

So now our aim is to build our first bot using Automation Anywhere tool.

Let’s start creating our first bot — Hello World.

Follow the below detailed steps to create your bot easily.

Step 1: Install Automation anywhere and sign up with your credentials.

Step 2: Open Automation anywhere and you should see similar to the below picture.

Step 3: Now click on New icon which is on top left corner.

Step 4: When you click on new button , another window will pop up. Click on workbench.

Step 5: As you click Workbench a new window will open where we are going to create our bot.

Step 6: Now double click or drag and drop the Message box to workbench which in commands section on left side of our screen

Step 7: After dragging and dropping the message box, type your bot name. In our case, we are doing Hello World bot. So type Hello World in the box shown.

Step 8 : Now click on save button.

Step 9: After that save your bot (ctrl+s) and click on Run button.

Step 10: So after running you are able to find the similar image. Click on OK.

Step 11: Finally we have made our first bot successfully using Automation Anywhere tool.