Leveraging RPA to Drive Digital Transformation

Speed and accuracy are the primary drivers of RPA and IA. As a result, organizations continue to reap significant benefits by using these levers to optimize processes and drive digital transformation efforts. However, a complete transformation also demands a shift in culture, where innovation and emerging technology are adopted to enhance user experiences and boost productivity.

A few areas where a company can leverage RPA solutions, include:

• Automation of data validation – An organization’s sheer volume of data makes manual validation cumbersome and error-prone. Data is invaluable to organizations and maintaining data accuracy and quality is a high priority during transformation projects. Through bots or AI, this process can be simplified and accelerated. Automation can be used in the data cleansing process to identify and fix inaccurate, incomplete and inconsistent data, while post-validation checks will determine the usefulness of data.

• Push/pull data from EDI systems – RPA solutions can be used to seamlessly integrate with ERP, e-commerce and other external systems to transfer business documents between trading/business partners/banks in a standard format. This brings a host of benefits, including eliminating the use of paper, cutting down manual data entry, and faster document processing.

• Excel automation/Manipulation of macros – MS Excel-based tools are used for many repetitive backend tasks like data import and export, extraction, migration, validation, etc. Using bots to perform these repetitive and time-consuming tasks will allow business users to spend more time analyzing reports and making critical business decisions.

RPA can also be used in decision management, interacting with web services (REST/SOAP), invoice/PO (document) classification, extracting data from unstructured documents, integrating legacy systems and secure wallets for application credentials.