Session: Open-source RPA: Leveraging Python and Robot Framework ecosystems for business process automation
Robotic process automation (RPA) is a technology used to build bots and digital workers to automate repetitive routine tasks and business processes.
RPA became one of the hottest technologies in the enterprise space because it can unlock tremendous amounts of value that’s sitting inside every company’s operations and administration. We have seen multiple billion-dollar companies being created in this space, and now it’s spreading beyond the enterprise to mid-market.
With all the growth happening in RPA, there are many misconceptions, bold claims, and fluffy marketing around it. Instead of being an AI-powered magic wand for inexperienced automators, RPA is a set of developer tools and technologies that enable secure and reliable execution of bots across a mixed set of environments and tasks. It is, in fact, the perfect target for good old open-source disruption.
This talk will explain the basics of RPA (hint: it’s not real robots but software) and make a case for open-source in this industry. We will also dive into the technology behind RPA, explore why Python is the perfect platform for building it, and highlight some of the technical challenges that we have had to overcome to build the largest open-source ecosystem in RPA.
