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Nicely put. I have always felt RPA was the ' poor mans' option for automation.
by monkeydust 5y ago
Nicely put.
I have always felt RPA was the ' poor mans' option for automation.
- ajcp 5y agoThank you! Yes, as a SWE when you actually see how these RPA solutions run they are not impressive. Heck, before they moved to the cloud most of them were simply providing a wrapper for Windows interop assemblies (COM, Office, what-have-you) and its native Task Scheduler capability. As a piece of technology their real value proposition is the deployment, orchestration, & management of the automations. Even four years ago they should have included VMs/VM environments in that package, so that you're not just managing a "bot", but the whole kit-and-caboodle. This would have made their offering absolutely unique and more comprehensive.