With our RPA it's a real real industry where the people who are doing it now
are going to make a massive difference to what it is and what it becomes in the future.
I think if we as developers and the people who are really at the
forefront of robotics really embrace the fact that actually the reason that we do
what we do is for customers, because it would really enrich their experience
as it makes things better or even things as simple as automating ordering a pizza
on Domino's makes people's lives just that little bit better and more free-flowing.
And for the people that we work with it's about making their lives
more interesting, so, if there's any tasks that they've got that is really
monotonous, really repetitive that they can't enjoy doing.
No one applies for a job thinking - no I'd really love to do the same thing
over and over and over again.
I'll admit to being a little bit biased
I said I haven't used any any other ones but honestly I can't think of any reason why I'd want to.
UiPath as a platform it's really really intuitive like I said I
hadn't done anything like this before but actually within a couple of weeks
I'd built a robot that would that would do something and it grows and grows in complexity.
I came from a really good situation in that the
process I wanted to automate I knew really really well, so, I didn't know
anything about robotics, I didn't know anything about how to do automation or
programming but I knew the process.
I used that to put the process together,
built a robot that'll do it and it worked really well.
It's such an easy product
to pick up and get better at. Then I can start to do processes that I
don't know because I know how to use the the automation software and actually the
tools that UiPath gives are really really good.
It's intuitive and easy to pick up,
but its also got an awful lot of depth, so there's a great great
deal that you can do with it and it just increases all the time, it's really progressive.
Almost constantly we're getting information and feedback from
the team at UiPath and from the community saying look actually this
would be really really good we'd like to do this.
You don't sit on laurels and say
you know, we've got a really really good RPA product, that I think probably
stands out better than your competitors, but you say - we've got a really great one
that could stand up better, where do we go next, have do we make it evenbetter again.
The whole thing about them is just it's such a fantastic idea that
you can have something and say look, if this happens this is what's going to
happen and as long as you haven't had an option you can just keep plugging away
here, but if anything expected it happens, you can teach it how to deal
with it just on the fly.
It's such a clever and powerful tool
Cyanogen in the RPA world, the best thing I could suggest is have a try.
The community edition of the software is really really good download it and have a go.
And just do automation. Don't ever get caught into a trap thinking
that's something for someone who's like a really really high-end data
scientist who's done 18 degrees in, the kind of stuff that you'd need to do to do it.
If you know a process really really well, you 100% can automate it.
You can do it, just have a try if you're having any trouble watch
the training and go back to training that you might have seen before,
that's about the thing you're having a trouble with and also engage
with the community, so, the UiPath guys and the actual UiPath users in the
community are an amazing force and if you ask a question you'll get an answer
relatively quickly and you'll probably get three or four different people
giving you great solutions and one of my favorite favorite things about it is
almost always it's a - look here's a workflow that shows you how I've done it
so you can see where it is and you can see where you've gone wrong.
Or if you've got a workflow
you can't quite make work, you can put it on there and people will
have a look at it and go - Ah it could be this, it could be this.
You've got that there, so, just yeah my advice is really jump in with both feet.
The software is absolutely brilliant to support you and you can do a lot more
than you probably think you can do.
I really really like that they've added, though it's not much use to me I'll say,
the option to invoke code into your workflow so, you can put in literally you can hard
code something in VB if you're really really familiar with that.
Like-some I not but again there's people on my team who know it really well and actually
that comfort level lets them do things that I would do just using probably a
few different steps on an automation, but they can quite quickly
code out in a few lines, to do it that way, so, yeah it's great.
And also in the terms of integration, they'll probably a little bit off off topic it's
really good how UiPath can just work with anything the same as a user does
so, where it uses the mouse in the keyboard to navigate the screen it just means
that it's system agnostic, it doesn't matter what you're using, if a
user can do something you can do it with UiPath and that just, it blew my mind
when I figured at how.
The biggest thing for me, that made me apply to even
do the automation job in the first place was that I could really be part of
something that would revolutionize how we how we deal with customers how we
make customers experiences that little bit better and actually it's just such a
great thing that you've got a product that can take someone who has a massive
passion for delivering something to make people's lives better but no necessary technical skill.
As long as you've got the mindset that means that you want to
solve problems and you'll keep going back and you'll work our way around
because that means that we can put the people who've got the interests of our
customers of our colleagues of our friends and relatives in a position
where they can make a a real big difference and that's incredibly admirable.
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