Back here at Google Next 2019.
Here in the booth again bringing you some great technologies.
James, good to have you here.
Glad to be here.
Great.
So first time pretty new with the company, correct?
Yes, only been here a little while.
And where you from?
So I'm from a large background of mostly Enterprise Technologies, working with some SharePoint,
working with some power BI, working with pretty much anything that will make lives easier.
Take more time from doing these tedious task to helping people to things a little bit faster.
And where are you based?
I'm based in Seattle up in the Pacific Northwest.
Beautiful new office we have up there.
If you haven't checked out, please check it out.
So one of the things you pretty new to the company and one of the things that I always
like to talk to our customers about and ask you, how did you learn about our products?
Oh, man, it was the easiest thing I have ever learned.
Because I just went to the site, I looked for Academy.
And I mean I got to right to the Academy I was just looking for Learning and if directed
me to UiPath Academy.
I went in there and my first time I was just watching some videos of people using it and
I was like, okay pause the video follow them along a little bit, play it for a long pause
keep doing that and next thing I know, I was able to do everything I just saw them do in
a matter of minutes.
Then I figured out they actually have courses which would have made it a lot easier that
step-by-step guides.
Yeah, so I mean it's but even doing it the way I did it, I was able to find it figure
it all out get dangerous and build anything I wanted.
So he uses Academy, we use Academy for internal people same learning and same Academy you
can use as a customer right going from General RPA essentials, all the way into Master certification
RPA developer, right?
Correct?
And you know RPA smart people you guys are on your path to get there.
Now being new to the company, what I was like to talk to our customers about is give me
a quick overview of our products, right?
How do you explain and how did you learn to give me give me go overview of what we do?
Yeah.
So the first way I actually learned was just using the most basic thing possible in the
the Studio, and I was just using the Recorder which we can find up here in the upper part
of it, Recorder.
So if I want to record something if I don't know how to code not in dragging and dropping,
I just want to record the process that I do on my desktop.
Correct.
I can start doing that.
So it looks like, desktop, web, image a lot of options.
Yes a lot of different options in there.
So I mean we have your basic one, which is just going to be like you're not really sure
what to do.
You start there, desktop and be kind of like your different desktop applications.
Okay, but typically, you know, you probably working a lot in the browser.
Maybe you're just trying to go to a different site and log in and just have through their
you have that.
Then let's go to the web and see what we can do.
Yeah, do a quick little recording of something.
So over here, I have this I'm gonna open up a browser and I'm going to open up Internet
Explorer which click this open browser.
So I'm at this is actually just RPA challenge site.
Okay, that’s fine just anything.
So you're opening the browser.
So so right here it’s just asking you for the URL what you're working with and this
one is the RPA challenge.
So coming to this do.
So then maybe next I want to do is this is actually I wasn't planning the jump into you
know, this challenge here right here, but you know while it's already up, so we have
different things like your phone number your address last name, you'll just have typical
input forms.
And so maybe I always want to type in my first name in here type.
So I'll find the first name field right here.
It just comes up here typing in, James
Click enter and there we go.
Typed it in for me.
Okay, so let's record it to let's go back and see what that looks like.
So now they're recorded it.
So I'm going to click save and exit and boom.
It just builds out the entire thing for me in studio.
Okay.
So this is what I mean and this is true.
This is actually that automation that we're doing so it's actually built this out on the
fly.
Yeah Web, CITRIX, PDFs, whatever you're doing desktop applications.
All right here now you're ready to go.
Yes all built out ready to go.
Very simple and easy to use.
Of course, that's one of our huge tenants in our applications and products ease of use
and the ability to start working very quickly in the application there.
Okay, show me a little bit what the activities box looks like.
Yeah so over here, we have activities and have a I've kind of got some my favorites
up here the quick ones that you would work too quick fast.
Some of them a lot of these will be using terminology that can be familiars any developers,
but if you're not a developer there also, you can quickly get dangerous with them and
understand what they are so over here, we have some UI automation maybe want to work
with, UI is a term which I found out from my wife's a lot of people weren't familiar
with stands for User Interface.
It is anything that you are actually touching on the computer screen.
Exactly.
So in this we have here elements like it like maybe you want to use your mouse in here maybe
want to use your keyboard and work through different things controls are going to be
anything that's you know, you're typically like checkbox drop down boxes.
So lots of options, about three or four 300-plus activities actually ship in Studio, plus you
can have your own you can build in more more connectors more computer vision stuff coming
out.
We did computer vision also just earlier.
So make sure you check out that demo great technology.
Okay, let's jump.
So now that I have my automation, right?
What do I do next?
So next thing you do is, you know, I just typed in here.
I just put my first name James and maybe you want to put something else in here.
So now that you have like a basics in here, you could probably variable-ise this maybe
put it in different ways to we can in there but those folks we got all this down.
We got this where we want to next we want to do.
Obviously we want to run it.
Okay.
Yeah so over here.
I'm just going to have a robot and this little UI icon right here.
All these are my robots.
Okay, right.
Now these are robots are automations both.
Okay.
So these are automations that my robot can run.
Okay great because again a robot 24/7 worker right works linearly.
So every process I give it will go through the process linear 24/7.
I can just continue running things through so and you can access it directly to the desktop.
So that's cool.
Yeah.
Super easy.
The other option is let's suppose that you built this all out.
And now you want to ask to have it run on other people's computers.
You want to push it off there and that's where we have our Orchestrator, which is our browser
version.
So you come over here and we have Orchestrator.
Super easy to get to what's your Studio connected into it, you click publish, since your process
up here and then you have everything available.
So once you can get all connected, you know, maybe have it connected just a matter of minutes.
It's the tutorials are super easy.
Just follow along.
You'll be right there next to you know you’ll be using tutorials
Let’s look down.
So we got robots on the top.
It's really all robots that you would have right unattended or attended, doesn’t matter
for us.
And then go down to machines, those are the things that we’re running.
We got ten machines brought processes.
And those are all the processes that I've assigned to those robots.
And these are the workflows like we just built out the Studio.
Got you.
So when I push those up there this is where you would start finding them.
And libraries.
Yes libraries.
So libraries would just be like maybe you start putting those custom activities or start
pinning a different different General tool sets that you can use to bring in.
So Studio where you can create all your automations, right?
We've got Orchestrator which allows us to control and kind of organize all of our robots
and processes automatically and then of course the robot unattended or attended right from
the desktop or if you wanted to push that on an unattended robot somewhere on a server
or VM, right?
How about we explain to people.
Maybe what it attended robot is versus an unattended.
That's great.
Yes do it.
So we have two different things.
General concept is unattended is a robot you at have separate that would not need a human
interaction with okay.
Just throwing processes out.
Yes.
So unattended could be off onto the computer doing its own thing running off different
things.
Maybe you're pushing every process to it server.
It's get on.
Yes server.
Good point
An attended robot.
Is what I have right here when it's on my machine and it's one that may need some human
interaction.
Like maybe it's going at it so much things that is compromise of like, hey James, I need
help with this what number should have actually been in here.
I'm not really sure of the correct thing in here.
That would be an attended robot.
Again human in the loop.
So that's fantastic great explanation.
Make sure the customers understand that too because we do have robots unattended and attended.
Orchestrator allows us to organize that and Studio which allows us to create those automations.
So quick overview Thanks James for giving us kind of a quick overview.
Of course,
The platform products that we have
We’ll be coming you with more demonstrations and Technology from Google next.
So follow us on social and we'll talk to you soon.
Thanks, Jan. Appreciate it.
Thank you.