Kochi Mulesoft Meetup # 13 - MuleSoft RPA Automation as APIs

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Kochi MuleSoft Meetup Group
MuleSoft RPA Automation as APIs
24th September 2022

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Organizers
⮚ Kochi MuleSoft Meetup Leader | 8+ Years of Experience in Integrations and API
Technologies.
⮚ Certified MuleSoft Developer, Integration Architect and platform Architect
⮚ Kochi Mulesoft Meetup Leader |Technical Instructor | Integration Lead
⮚ 10+ years of Integration Experience. Certified Mulesoft Developer, Integration
Architect & Platform Architect
⮚ Kochi Mulesoft Meetup Leader | 6+ Years of Experience in Integrations and
API Technologies.
⮚ Certified MuleSoft Developer, Integration Architect and platform Architect.
Sandeep Krishnan
Sumit Ahuja
Supriya Pawar

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Speaker
⮚ Integration architect with over 14+ years of experience
⮚ Working with Devoteam Netherlands. My area of expertise is within
Enterprise Application Integration, built over many years of successful
implementations on large scale enterprises to enable digital transformation
and meet their integration requirements
Siddamma Tigadi
Integration Architect
Devoteam

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Agenda
● Understanding RPA - Robotic Process Automation
● MuleSoft RPA Lifecycle phases
● MuleSoft RPA components
● How do you figure out what to automate ?
● RPA simple use case illustration
● RPA bot process as a REST API asset in exchange
● RPA Demo
● Q & A
● Quiz !
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Understanding RPA - Robotic Process Automation
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Automation software to end repetitive tasks and make digital transformation a
reality.
Just like people, software robots can do things like understand what’s on a
screen, complete the right keystrokes, navigate systems, identify and extract
data, and perform a wide range of defined actions.
These bots will not need a coffee break

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Common Use Cases
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1. Data Extraction/Entry
2. Payroll processing
3. Price Comparison
4. Processing Refunds
5. Common repetitive tasks
• Moving folders and files
• Email interactions
• Preparing manipulating merging data
• Logging in/out from apps
• Filling out forms etc.

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Accounting
Team
Searches
invoices in emails
Downloads
invoices
Manually selects
invoice data
Copies &
pastes data
Logs into legacy
invoice system
Manually enters
invoice data
Completes invoice
processing
An Example - Invoice Processing Workflow
Manual, repetitive works lead to human errors and resource waste
Manual process without automation

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MuleSoft RPA Lifecycle phases
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MuleSoft RPA components
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Evaluate Phase
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Design Phase
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Design – Key Symbols and elements
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Steps to Create an Automation from Start to Finish
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Step 1: Prerequisites
Step 2: Evaluate a Process for Automation
Step 3: Create the Automation Project
Step 4: Design the BPMN Diagram for the Automation
Step 5: Build the Automation from the BPMN Diagram
Step 6: Test the Automation
Step 7: Deploy the Automation
Step 8: Manage and Monitor the Automation

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Simple RPA Hello automation Asset as API
Illustration
Anypoint Exchange RPA
process as a REST API
asset
Client invocation
Mule RPA bot
API Call
Customer

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Demo

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MuleSoft RPA Automation
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MuleSoft RPA
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Anypoint Exchange Asset
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MuleSoft RPA Automation as APIs
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RPA Benefits
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Value
Improved
employee
satisfaction
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Reliability
Accuracy
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Reduce Cost
Saving
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Accelerate
Speed
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Complaince
Governance

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Key Notes
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• Improved employee satisfaction
• Productivity
• Reliability
• Consistency + Accuracy
• Governance
• Compliance eliminating all human error
Benefits
• MuleSoft RPA can be integrated with Mule Composer. AI can be infused into RPA to build intelligent systems
that can self serve and realization of end to end automation
What next

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Thank you

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References:
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https://docs.mulesoft.com/rpa-home/
https://docs.mulesoft.com/rpa-manager/
https://docs.mulesoft.com/rpa-bot/latest/
https://docs.mulesoft.com/rpa-builder/latest/
https://docs.mulesoft.com/rpa-recorder/latest/
https://training.mulesoft.com/course/getting-started-rpa
https://www.mulesoft.com/platform/rpa
https://docs.mulesoft.com/rpa-home/automation-tutorial-introduction
https://docs.mulesoft.com/rpa-home/publish-process-automation-exchange

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Q & A Session

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Question 1:
Q: What are the main components of Mule RPA
Answer :
1. RPA Manager , RPA builder , RPA recorder
2. RPA bot and RPA process
3. RPA builder only

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Question 2:
Q: Mule RPA process can be published to Anypoint excahnge
as a REST API asset . Is the statement true or false
Answer :
1. True
2. False

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Question 3:
Q: Which are the stages in a RPA lifecycle ?
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1. Evaluate , Design , Build , Test, Deploy, Monitor
2. Evaluate , Design , Build
3. Build , Test, Deploy, Monitor