RPA platform vendors suggest using two approaches for automation – Citizen Development and Low-code. With these approaches, business users who are not technical professionals are able to independently create relatively uncomplicated robots to address their own problems using simple tools.
EasyRPA for Developers
Background
Citizen Development is a model for engaging non-professional developers who create applications for other people; while they are often not employed by IT departments, but the platforms and tools they use are approved by the company IT department.
Low-code is an approach to creating, configuring, and modifying systems and applications that requires virtually no coding. Low-code platforms use visual interfaces with simple logic and drag-and-drop functionality instead of various programming languages.
Automation of processes by business users as developers allows them to jump off to a good start at the initial stage of implementation. However, this approach also has many disadvantages that become an obstacle to the automation scaling.
Good Start
Facing Reality
Business users and technical professionals play an equally active role in the implementation of automation.
Expert knowledge is used in specific areas and processes.
Reduced costs in the early stages due to the abandonment of «costly» developers.
The automation concept and approaches are popular with employees.
Creation and deployment of the first simplest robots is fast.
18-32% of automation cases are for business users only. Almost all of them do not lead to the desired result. Even simple tools still require significant training to get the most out of them.
Who is responsible for support: the business user who automated the process, or the technicians?
How to maintain and operate robots created without uniform standards?
Automation using AI and ML is almost impossible without the involvement of experts.
Challenge
Customers face technical and organizational difficulties in the RPA automation process. Our automation experience shows that there are two main issues among them.
Limitations in the development and modification of robots due to the emphasis on the use of UI components for business users.
Difficult troubleshooting and support due to limited functionality for code debugging, bug fixing and testing
Why EasyRPA
We advocate a different approach to business automation. We believe that robots should be programmed by professional developers according to streamlined rules so that the entire automation process is clear, unified and scalable.
Development on the EasyRPA platform is made using Java language, which provides ease of support and modification of robots compared to low-code platforms.
Unique Benefits for Developers
Uniform development standards for all robots in the company
Reusing common components in all business processes of the company can reduce the number of automation errors.
Seamless integration with your systems
The flexible platform is compatible with all types of systems: no need to develop drivers, plugins, or add-ins.
Maximum freedom in developing even very complex robots
Java-based platform comes with automation libraries and template processes; complete freedom to choose IDE and other CI/CD pipeline components.
Best development practices
Unit tests, source code management, code review and Test Driven Development (TDD).