Getting Started with RPA 19.1

AssistEdge Robotic Process Automation is an end-to-end service for building and implementing RPA. RPA includes several components that helps you through your automation journey.

 

  • Admin Portal: It is a web portal that enables the administrator to configure various aspects of AssistEdge such as create and update users, assign role to the user, control and update system settings and so no. Workflow Service is the service layer that helps the components to access the stored data. It enables them to perform different processes such as user management,automation process management and so on.
  • Automation Studio - Automation Studio is the core part of AssistEdge RPA that empowers business users and developers to configure automation processes. The Automation Studio encompass configuration capabilities for number of technology applications.
  • Reporting(Kibana): It is used for reporting of the data that is stored in Elasticsearch. It helps to search, view, analyze and project the data in an easy to understand format such as charts, tables and maps.
  • Control Tower: It is a web-based administrative and monitoring system to set-up and manage the robots running on remote machines.
  • EPAAssistEdge Enterprise Personal Assistant is the role-based attended automation solution that is triggered by individual employees and managed centrally by CoE/Core team. Users can also provide manual inputs during the automation. 
  • Decision Workbench - Decision Workbench enables process SMEs to support digital workers in variety of scenarios such as business decision making, business data review, and exception handling.

 

Naming Conventions

Acronym

Expansion

AE

AssistEdge

RPA

Robotic Process Automation

CT

Control Tower

TxnStore

Transaction Store (Elasticsearch)

Dbowner

Database Owner

OS

Operating System

PbE

Programming by Example

DLL

Dynamic Link Library

IIS

Internet Information Services

LG

Load Generator

Studio

Automation Studio

AERPA

AE Attended RPA

DBA

Database Administrator

HA

High Availability

DB

Database

LB

Load Balancer

NodeJS

Node is a server side JavaScript compiler which enables the developers to build high scalable, real time applications. It can handle tens of thousands of simultaneous connections on one physical machine

Physical cores

CPU cores

Staging Environment

Staging is a nearly exact replica of production environment where you test the application

MQ

Message Queuing

ACE

AssistEdge Community Edition

FOSS

Free and Open Source Software

NIA Vision

Machine learning based capability to detect objects in a digital document, based on training

OCR

Optical Character Recognition

APIs

Application Program Interface